http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=64&catid=298News Feed for - US-political-columnistshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96441881&Channel_ID=64&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=96450008&Channel_ID=64&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=64&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=96402960&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T08:33:00at 11:56pm President Obama will outline his decision on Afghanistan next week in a national address. The comments come a day after he held his 10th and final meeting to assess his war strategy and settle KEYC Televisionhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96376028&Channel_ID=64&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=64&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 Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96404004&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T06:53:00I hereby forfeit my claim to a 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 canâ??t quite National Reviewhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96375673&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-25T02:09:00300 Characters Left Send me a copy of this message Recipients do not need a MyWire subscription to view this article. The sender's access rights will be extended to the recipient for this article only. Keep Mediahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378477&Channel_ID=64&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=96369583&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-24T04:16:00Trying to come up with bipartisan compromise is a a losing game. Let both sides place their bets -- and one will pay the price. Ihereby forfeit my claim to a vast right-wing conspiracy decoder ring by Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96361095&Channel_ID=64&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=64&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=64&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=96375610&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-24T07:45:00Re (column, Nov. 17): While David Brooks rhapsodizes about the productivity and optimism of contemporary China, he does not mention some very ugly blemishes. For the whole of their remarkably long history, New York Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96368755&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-24T04:06:00Arianna stopped by Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night to talk about the politics behind the Senate's approach to health care reform, including recent comments by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) Huffington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96175539&Channel_ID=64&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=64&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=96350452&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T23:43:00Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House. The Huffington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96350397&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T23:42:00It's often said that you can't hope to apply Iraq strategy to Afghanistan because the two countries/conflicts are so different. But Stanley McChrystal seems not to agree: In Iraq, the U.S.-funded Sons The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95866247&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-18T16:16:00The famous rowhouse on C Street SE where disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford sought counseling after his affair -- as did Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) after his affair -- has begun paying D.C. real Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96339880&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T20:26:00Congressional Quarterly's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96337652&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T20:09:00One of the most fascinating aspects of the health-care reform debate are the creative, highly targeted arguments that outside groups are marshalling to try and kill it. My current favorite is from the The New Republic Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96318477&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T15:39:00(Flickr/White House) The continuing rise in the unemployment rate, up to 10.2 percent in November, has to give a sense of urgency to Democrats in Congress and the administration about the work they have American Prospecthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96318436&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T15:39:00The word from Washington and Wall Street is that the worst is over. Sure, it will take a while for jobs to recover, for housing to come back, and for wages to rise. But we are definitely on the road to American Prospecthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96298199&Channel_ID=64&Category_ID=2982009-11-23T11:11:00filibusters in congressional history. More Articles On: , Popular 12345 1 2People Seem To Have Forgotten The Trade Center (And Pentagon) Massacre. So The Obama Administration Will Now Have Provided Us The New Republic Online