http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=49&catid=298News Feed for - US-political-columnistshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96641129&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-27T07:57:00While our scholastic education is formal and supervised, our emotional education, the one we glean on our own from artists and musicians, is more important to our long-term happiness.New York Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96641083&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-27T07:56:00David Brookss column (Nov. 24) encapsulates many of the unsound arguments that have characterized the health care reform debate over the past year. We do not face a brutal choice between a more decent New York Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96519778&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T05:52:00This voluntary December calamity is explained in a darkly amusing little book that is about the size of an iPhone. 'Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays' comes from a distinguished Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96441881&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T11:56:00The more than 200 recipes -- with names like Post-Soviet Thai Crab Cakes With Jam Sauce -- mostly come from agents and family members whose names aren't given and whose places of assignment remain murky. Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96600248&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T21:44:00In a New York Times story on Pakistan and Afghanistan, David Sanger writes: Inside the Pakistani Army and the intelligence service, which is known as the ISI, it is an article of faith among some officers The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96550653&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T21:04:00Tags: Thanksgiving turkey, US President Barack Obama On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama pardoned his first Thanksgiving turkey. There is something wrong with this concept. Here is how our beloved Deccan Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96467431&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T15:11:00Today is Thanksgiving, the holiday in which Americans count their blessings by binge eating, seeing family, and watching television. But we arenâ??t the only ones who mark time with massive feasts. Click The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96566218&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T14:21:00Thanksgiving always evokes memories of the days when, as mothers of young children, we would bundle them up to deliver turkey baskets -- family to family -- to those in Washington, DC who couldn't afford Huffington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96550376&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T07:48:00If you were traveling on Thanksgiving Eve, you might have missed Arianna on The Charlie Rose Show. She was there to discuss President Obama's forthcoming decision on US troop levels in Afghanistan. Joining Huffington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96514436&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T07:49:00David Brooks poses (column, Nov. 24). As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, when so many have so little to be thankful for, how can he call a decision on whether to provide care for those in the greatest New York Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96540196&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T05:31:00Itâ??s hardly a secret or an accident that much of politics revolves around the elimination of doubt among voters on public policy issues. Base-mobilization strategies for elections typically involve The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378477&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-24T08:21:00Ihereby forfeit my claim to a vast right-wing conspiracy decoder ring by offering two cheers for the Democrats. I congratulate them on their victory Saturday night in the Senate, and while I can't quite Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96361095&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-24T02:16:00The speech, delivered in Philadelphia in March 2008, was compelled by the rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who had been Obama's pastor and spiritual adviser. Wright, a man of a certain age with the Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96286417&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-24T01:46:00The Ft. Hood massacre was not the first violent tragedy that conservatives have blamed on political correctness. But it might be the first one in which they actually have a point. In March, commentator Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96265966&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T06:18:00Washington is a town where lots of folks have a "history" with one another -- a history that's not always the most pleasant. That makes the task of holiday dinner-party seating an especially exacting Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96369583&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T18:56:00For years, conservatives and liberals have flirted with the idea of disposing of the fool's errand of bipartisanship. Seeking compromise with partisans across the aisle is a recipe for getting nothing Bellingham Heraldhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96542484&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-26T15:33:00Itâ??s now official: So in vogue are attacks on President Barack Obama that even his proclamation calling the nation to a day of Thanksgiving has become the focus of criticism. Presidential Thanksgiving Indy.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96175539&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-21T19:24:00Barack Obama's irresistible, or at least unresisted, propensity for self-aggrandizement bubbled up yet again during his recent trip to the Far East when he proclaimed himself "America's first Pacific MSNBC Newsweekhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96138738&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-21T04:31:00What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96486474&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T18:47:00The former National Guardsman's voice was low and raspy on the phone, and I could barely hear him. Still, I heard enough to be shocked: A gunner in his squad had been awarded a Bronze Star for his courage American Prospecthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96474659&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T15:13:00charisma in the daily ebb and flow of things. He is as he has always presented himself to us. More Articles On: , Popular 12345 1People Seem To Have Forgotten The Trade Center (And Pentagon) Massacre. The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96450008&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T08:21:00If there was one thing seemed certain about the Obama administration, it was their commitment to Keynesian deficit spending to boost the economy out of its slump. But Keynes beware: With unemployment The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96450004&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T08:21:00Last week, I clicked over to the CNN home page and there, in a rundown of the dayâ??s most important news, I saw a headline announcing that Nicole Richie had pneumonia. I immediately thought of Sarah The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96376028&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T08:31:00President Obama can often be more interested in wooing opponents than tending to those who put themselves on the line for him.New York Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96297680&Channel_ID=49&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T07:52:00Just when momentum was starting to build for increased capital requirements as the core element of an approach that will reign in reckless risk-taking, Morgan Stanley effectively demolishes the idea. The New Republic Online