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| The Ignored Choices in Gaza | | American Prospect - 4 Hours ago | | A Palestinian woman holds a child as she sits on the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba) The | | | | Add Comment |
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| Why the Democratic Scandals Don't Matter (Yet) | | Lucianne.com - 9 Hours ago | | More and more these days, my morning newspaper reads like an ensemble comedy of errors cast entirely with Democrats: Bill Richardson probed! Blago busted! Charlie Rangel investigated! Eliot Spitzer ruined! | | | | Add Comment |
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| Who Are the Real Nazis? | | National Review - 13 Hours ago | | With Hamas, Hitlerism comes to the Middle East wearing the mask of anti-Hitlerism. â??Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, thatâ??s what you need!â? This is what one young woman thought passed for | | | | all 2 news articles >> Add Comment |
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| Is Panetta Experienced Enough? | | The New Republic Online - 19 Hours ago | | With controversy swirling around Obama's selection of Leon Panetta for CIA chief, we approached a few respected intelligence experts for perspective. Those we spoke to were supportive of the choice and | | | | Add Comment |
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| Reed Hundt for Commerce | | The New Republic Online - 19 Hours ago | | So the Bill Richardson debacle ended up confirming a truism about the Commerce Department?it is a hack hole. And when Obama takes his mulligan and replaces Richardson, he will be undoubtedly tempted to | | | | Add Comment |
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| Take Two Bailouts and Call Me in the Morning | | Washington Post - 1/6/2009 | | Senate staffers working on confirmations are looking hard into the backgrounds of President-elect Barack Obama's nominees, poring over their past writings and speeches searching for controversial statements | | | | Add Comment |
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| Burris Hoping to be Crowned Emperor of Universe | | Huffington Post - 21 Hours ago | | Just hours after being denied a seat in the U.S. Senate, former Illinois attorney general Roland W. Burris said that he was no longer interested in that position and would instead seek to be crowned Emperor | | | | Add Comment |
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| Paging Dr. Gupta . . . to Washington? | | The New Republic Online - 21 Hours ago | | I was about to decry the news of Obama's reported desire to make Sanjay Gupta his Surgeon General as the triumph of style over substance, but then I read further into Howie Kurtz's piece and saw: The | | | | Add Comment |
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| From the TNR Archives: Thomas Geoghegan | | The New Republic Online - 24 Hours ago | | Chicago lawyer Thomas Geoghegan, who is a candidate for Rahm Emanuel's vacant congressional seat, spent years writing about progressive causes for The New Republic. For the residents of the Illinois 5th | | | | Add Comment |
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| Oh Mother (Russia) | | The New Republic Online - 24 Hours ago | | With another gas showdown between Ukraine and Russian gas behemoth Gazprom now underway, it is worth being reminded of the surreal aspect of Putin's Russia. Gazprom has decided that it will reduce deliveries | | | | Add Comment |
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| At Least It Beats Joe the Plumber | | The New Republic Online - 1/6/2009 | | Dana Milbank hilariously tallies invocations of Ronald Reagan at yesterday's debate between the candidates for RNC chair. He comes up with a total of 16, which is fewer than the 22 guns that four of the | | | | Add Comment |
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| Robots and Roads | | The New Republic Online - 1/6/2009 | | There was a time when I might have started this blog post with, 'Granted, Eliot Spitzer is brilliant ...' But even if he hadn't--well, you know--his post-Albany scribblings at Slate But that?s an awful | | | | Add Comment |
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| Silver Understates Coleman's Predicament | | The New Republic Online - 1/6/2009 | | Let's be frank: Norm Coleman doesn't have much of a future in electoral politics. Defeated Presidential candidates sometimes have nine lives, but defeated Senatorial candidates rarely do, and in his career | | | | Add Comment |
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| Inadvertent Consequences of Rights Expanded | | Washington Post - 1/4/2009 | | Like pebbles tossed into ponds, important Supreme Court rulings radiate ripples of consequences. Consider a 1971 Supreme Court decision that supposedly applied but actually altered the 1964 Civil Rights | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Toll Of a Rights 'Victory' | | Washington Post - 1/3/2009 | | Like pebbles tossed into ponds, important Supreme Court rulings radiate ripples of consequences. Consider a 1971 Supreme Court decision that supposedly applied but actually altered the 1964 Civil Rights | | | | Add Comment |
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| Missing A Few Sages | | Washington Post - 1/3/2009 | | When the new Congress begins this week, a great many familiar faces will be missing. While the most notable absentees will be the new president- and vice president-elect, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, something | | | | Add Comment |
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| A show that Springer couldn't even conceive | | Chicago Tribune - 1/3/2009 | | Roland 'Tombstone' Burris goes to Washington this week as part of the Illinois political freak show, and many of us back home will watch it and feel like cringing, at least at the beginning. Who among | | | | Add Comment |
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| Hiding behind black voters | | Chicago Tribune - 1/3/2009 | | White guilt has exhausted itself, President-elect Barack Obama once wrote. Well, not so fast. His former opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago, apparently thinks there's still some life | | | | Add Comment |
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