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May.02.2011
We cannot say it was only a matter of time. We can say it is good timing. Barack Obama makes an announcement about the US killing Osama bin Laden, but there is not a word from him about NATO forces murdering the Libyan leader’s youngest son and grandchildren even as there were rumours that...
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May.02.2011
Until late Sunday evening on May 1, 2011, the big news in discussions focused on President Barack Obama throughout the weekend was that he and First Lady Michelle Obama were scheduled to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show on May 2. Then TV journalists interrupted regular television broadcasts at...
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Apr.06.2011
Somewhere those end-time rapturists are kicking back with a big stogey, an Armagedda-tini and a big fat smile on their slab faces. Bring it on.
The Obstinance-Only Teabagging GOP is determined to fulfill their promise to shut down the government. Then what? Wisconsin Sen. Paul D. Ryan, another...
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Mar.30.2011
See, I am in a sort of confused state of mind. When I glanced at a report about Donald trump discussing birth certificates, I thought he wanted to know where Christopher Columbus was born. Then I figured out it was something about birthers and images of village elders who help women in...
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Jan.29.2011
Once again, in terms of political theater, President Barack Obama has managed to flummox both critics and angels alike. Reviews of his State of the Union address have been more mixed than a Kansas Cuisinart stuck in a tornado on puree. Notwithstanding the ritualistic 79 applause breaks by his...
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Jan.26.2011
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that, when it comes to the business of higher education, America remains the country to beat. "We are home to the world's best colleges and universities," he said, "where more students come to study than any other...
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Jan.13.2011
(full story: http://wp.me/p1aE2o-x4) Gabrielle Giffords, a moderate young Congresswoman genuinely beloved on both sides of the aisle, lies gravely wounded in an Arizona hospital, her survival a miracle of providence, heroism and modern medicine; six innocent people must be laid to rest, including a...
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Dec.29.2010
8 Things That Would Be Different—Mostly—If Hillary Clinton Were President.
Here's the first one. For a complete list please check out Daily Damocles (my blog for anxious progressives)
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1. Nobody outside Alaska would know the name Sarah Palin
Or...
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Dec.10.2010
Will a dissident Briton or American receive it? It is nobody’s case here that China has a clean record, but the Peace Prize is about political puppetry.
"A blink, a trembling instant passes to a flash of awareness: I’m still alive On Central Television News my name’s changed to...
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Dec.09.2010
Heroism is being retailed quite easily. What you see about such sensitive information is the probability factor designed to create fear and comply with the filibustering by a few big nations.
Julian Assange gets arrested in London for a crime he says he has not committed and not for a...
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