| Cold War nostalgia | | Los Angeles Times - 8 Hours ago | | The global celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall aren't entirely about commemorating the rebirth of freedom or reliving those thrilling moments when a perverse and repressive | | | | Add Comment |
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| Constant Comment | | American Prospect - 63 Minutes ago | | Save the Males, Kathleen Parker's 2008 polemic on sexual permissiveness and libertinism, contains the following euphemisms for vagina: 'inner sanctum,' 'familiars,' 'you know what,' 'very private parlor,' | | | | Add Comment |
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| What's the Alternative to Tucker Max? | | American Prospect - 63 Minutes ago | | (Flickr/Lisa Norwood) Vote for Courtney Martin in 'Machismo!' shouted a young college student in the third row. 'Tough!' 'Violent!' 'Homophobic!' shouted three other young men, sprinkled throughout the | | | | Add Comment |
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| Debating the healthcare bill | | The New Republic Online - 95 Minutes ago | | I had a friend visiting me this weekend who had fervently backed Barack Obama for President (against the â??devil-womanâ? Hillary), but who now thinks Obama has betrayed his followers â?? most recently | | | | Add Comment |
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| Building Blocs | | The New Republic Online - 8 Hours ago | | Monday marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is worth pausing to recall just how momentous, and unanticipated, this event and those that followed were. My students today have | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Reinvention of Robert Gates | | The New Republic Online - 8 Hours ago | | One afternoon in October, a blue and white jumbo jet flew high above the Pacific Ocean, approaching the international dateline. On board was the secretary of defense, Robert Gates, who was on an around-the-world | | | | Add Comment |
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| Make the Sell | | The New Republic Online - 8 Hours ago | | WASHINGTON--Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Coming in on a wing and a thank-you | | Washington Post - 11/7/2009 | | Bob Dole, who was badly wounded in Italy during that war, had just been recognized with a plaque for spurring creation of the memorial, and Elizabeth Dole said that 'Bob and I are down here almost every | | | | Add Comment |
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| All the Secretary's Fans | | The New Republic Online - 20 Hours ago | | In the few hours between landing after a swing through Pakistan, the Middle East, and North Africa and taking off again for Berlin, Singapore, Japan, and the Philippines, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | | | | Add Comment |
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| Ballets Mean Streets | | New York Times - 11/8/2009 | | â??The Red Shoes,â? a classic 1948 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a gorgeously haunting work of art. | | | | Add Comment |
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| Deteriorating relationships? | | Chicago Tribune - 11/5/2009 | | The United States only seems to be more polarized Steve Chapman Barack Obama held out hope of overcoming partisan divides, lowering the temperature and bringing Americans together. How's that working | | | | Add Comment |
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| Warnings from the angry middle | | Washington Post - 11/4/2009 | | They were also a timely reminder that President Obama needs to tune up his celebrated political organization and find a way to make Americans feel hopeful again. The night's biggest loser was the national | | | | Add Comment |
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| Hark! The Voters Speak! | | Motley Fool Discussion Boards - 11/6/2009 | | Although there is no way to deny that New Jersey and Virginia were terrible, horrible, disastrous, cataclysmic blows to Obama's prestige. No wonder the White House said he was not watching the results | | | | Add Comment |
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| Phony Conservative Anti-Elitism, Revealed! | | The New Republic Online - 11/7/2009 | | From a new cover story on Sarah Palin by Weekly Standard hack Matthew Continetti,: Last week, when Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens, | | | | Add Comment |
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