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| The Christian Science Monitor - If he is to satisfy the disparate, eager hopes of Americans, Barack Obama needs to wear more hats than Queen Elizabeth II. One of them will be as a "science president," supporting basic research and science education that will benefit the public good long after he leaves office. |
Nov 20, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| The Christian Science Monitor - If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of State, it could not have escaped the attention of the Clinton and Obama camps that this might turn out to be a nifty launching pad for her to make another run at the presidency in 2012. |
Nov 20, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| The Christian Science Monitor - In the past few weeks, a failed state that was forgotten for more than a decade once again made the world take notice. While Somalia's weak transitional government fails to assert control on land, a band of highly organized pirates have taken firm control of the country's sea lanes. |
Nov 20, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| HuffingtonPost.com - Reposted from TomDispatch. |
Nov 20, 2008 23:29:47 GMT
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| The Nation - The Nation -- Most of us outside of Georgia think of Saxby Chambliss as the guy who ran the most disgusting senate ad ever (at least until Liddy Dole's "You're an atheist!" spot this year). In 2002, Republican Chambliss attacked Democratic senator Max Cleland, who left three limbs on the battlefield in Vietnam, for lacking "the courage to lead" against the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, whose images play John the Baptist in the ad to a series of photos of Senator Cleland, carefully cropped to hide his heroic injuries. |
Nov 21, 2008 04:45:57 GMT
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| The Nation - The Nation -- With the Bush administration swirling around the drain -- get out the plunger! -- it's now time to stop hyperventilating about the "Iranian bomb." For goodness sakes, let it go! |
Nov 20, 2008 15:36:37 GMT
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| RealClearPolitics.com - GM, Ford, and Chrysler, who embodied industrial excellence and manufactured much of the equipment that defeated Japan and Germany more than sixty years ago, are reduced to begging the federal government to prevent their bankruptcy. |
Nov 19, 2008 19:30:06 GMT
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| RealClearPolitics.com - That's the argument Marin Cogan makes in her New Republic piece. Specifically, says Cogan, the supposed effort by Democrats to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine is a "manufactured controversy." She writes: |
Nov 21, 2008 00:30:45 GMT
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| The Christian Science Monitor - Government role in the global tobacco industryRegarding the Nov. 18 Opinion piece, "America's 'height of hypocrisy' on tobacco": Author Peter Fromuth makes a case that tobacco is some form of special, evil product, far different from normal products, such as, say, cookies. |
Nov 20, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| The Christian Science Monitor - As the dust settles after the US presidential vote, there is another important election that the world should watch. Venezuelan citizens head to the polls Nov. 23. At stake is the selection of governors for each of the country's 22 states, as well as mayors for 338 of the largest cities. |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Linda Chavez - Republicans are finally worried that their failure to attract Hispanic voters in this year's election spells trouble — perhaps for decades. |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Susan Estrich - The California Supreme Court's decision to hear argument as an "original" matter in three of the lawsuits challenging the adoption of Proposition 8 means the issue of gay marriage will soon be back in the courts. |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Pat Buchanan - Who killed the U.S. auto industry? |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Brent Bozell III - Both Time and Newsweek magazines are giggling at the Supreme Court oral arguments on the fleeting-TV-profanity case of FCC vs. Fox Television Stations. The court is considering if it has the authority to regulate obscene language on the public airwaves. |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Mona Charen - Unlike some who shall, in the interests of comity, remain nameless — conservatives do not cry foul when they lose elections. They do not whine that the election was stolen, or secured through dirty campaign tricks, or otherwise illegitimately won. Instead, they ask themselves where they went wrong. |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Michelle Malkin - Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable "right" to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh? |
Nov 21, 2008 08:00:00 GMT
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| Ted Rall - A Philosophy Without a Party |
Nov 21, 2008 00:58:34 GMT
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| Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- For yea these last two years, the picture we have had of our president-elect has been, without exception, that of a gentleman, proud yet humble, with an inner centeredness and an outer composure that have fascinated and often mystified the nation. Where, we kept asking ourselves, did such a man come from? What elements of fate and nature merged in him to create this preternaturally poised leader? |
Nov 21, 2008 00:58:33 GMT
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| Ann Coulter - With Time magazine comparing Obama to Jesus, I guess we should be relieved that, this week, liberals are only comparing him to Abraham Lincoln. |
Nov 21, 2008 00:01:06 GMT
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| Maggie Gallagher - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson looks like an investment banker. |
Nov 20, 2008 23:58:47 GMT
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