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2008-11-19

Face Of The Day

Tee shirts celebrating the victory of President-elect Barack Obama are offered for sale at a shop on Michigan Avenue November 17, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama, a long-time resident of Chicago, has set up his presidential transition office in the... read

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The Christianists Who Failed To Hear The Call

Huckabee settles scores in his new book: He calls out Pat Robertson, the Virginia-based televangelist, and Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, for endorsing Rudy Giuliani and Romney, respectively. He also has words for... read

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Quote From The Cocoon

Jonah Goldberg: National Review is not, and has not been, an unalloyed intellectual defender of the Bush administration. True. Very alloyed, but never at the risk of ever really making a difference. read

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Quote For The Day

"It's kind of like Wasilla, Alaska, except that it's different,&„; - William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist, on the neighborhood of Hyde Park. read

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HRC vs LDS On Prop 8

As of mid-September, this is what the Human Rights Campaign had donated of its own money to Prop 8: Jeremy Pittman, the national deputy field director for the Human Rights Campaign, said his organization donated $237,409 in staff time, and... read

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Innovation First

Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus feel that Gore has shifted away from CO2 regulation: We have long argued that it has been both a policy and political mistake for greens to place a higher emphasis on carbon prices and regulation... read

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The Deleveraging Of The Pentagon

Eric Martin tackles what Andrew Bacevich calls the "severed the connection between military spending and all other fiscal or political considerations": That "severing" as Bacevich terms it, renders meaningless the clamoring for "small government" and "fiscal discipline" that percolates from... read

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A Question Of War Crimes II

A reader writes: This AP story is, to my mind, remarkably naive in the way it approaches the issues. No one expects Obama to enter the White House and direct that prosecutions begin against his predecessors for war crimes. That's... read

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A Question Of War Crimes

The AP is reporting what I fully expected. It just isn't in Obama's interests or nature to seek prosecution of the president or many others in the Bush administration for committing war crimes. He wants to unite, heal and move... read

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Hillary Accepts?

Massie mulls over Ewen MacAskill's report in the Guardian that Hillary will accept Secretary of State. Two reasons why I believe the Guardian's scoop. Sid. Blumenthal. read

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