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Focus on Social Issues Could Shape Battle for Women

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Richard W. Stevenson - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - There are any number of ways in which the politics of culture wars might play out, but perhaps the biggest question is the degree to which the new attention on social issues might shape the battle for one of the most important electoral swing groups: moderate and independent women voters.

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How to Listen for Racism on the Campaign Trail: Jeffrey Goldberg

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:05:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg - Jan. 31 - Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic, is the author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror." He was formerly a Washington correspondent and a Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker. Here are some things you could lea

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Op-Ed Columnist: Springtime for Toxics

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 25 (Opinion) - The E.P.A. just did a very good thing in releasing new rules on mercury and air toxics for power plants. And, of course, Republicans are furious.

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Herman Cain, a man at odds with the skin he's in

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain neatly encapsulates an article of faith for many white conservatives — namely, that they, not black and brown people, are the true victims of bigotry. Cain comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in.

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Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By John McCain - May. 12 (Opinion) - Osama bin Laden’s welcome death has ignited debate over whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used on enemy prisoners were instrumental in locating bin Laden, and whether they are a justifiable means for gathering intelligence.

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The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Joshua Green - May. 10 (Opinion) - From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?

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Republicans Fault Democrats on Vote

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Janie Lorber - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - When House Republicans suffered an embarrassing defeat Tuesday in trying to pass an extension of the Patriot Act, they pointed a finger not at defiant members of their own party, but at Democrats who didn’t play along as expected.

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Let's All Stand on John McCain's Lawn

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Jan. 05 (Comedy News) - Puppet Senator John McCain attributes his crankiness to America not electing him president.

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Obama’s Very Good Week

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Dec. 10 (Opinion) - He only needs to work on two things. He needs to explain his method better than he did in his press conference. It is entirely consistent to support a policy and be willing to move off of it in exchange for a greater good or a necessary accommodation. That’s called real life.

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As The World Burns

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Ryan Lizza - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - On April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, at the White House. The legislators had spent seven months writing a comprehensive bill that

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Dream Time

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:12:01 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 19 (Opinion) - The Dream Act is the best hope for legalizing a significant number of Americans-in-waiting. Congress should pass it.

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Building a Nation of Know-Nothings

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Timothy Egan - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - If the lies about the president continue to gain traction, we're all going to pay a price.

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New Hayworth ad uses McCain's own voice admitting to lying during 2000 campaign

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 06 - PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain's Republican primary challenger has released a new ad using McCain's own voice admitting to lying in the past. It uses McCain's voice from the recording of his 2002 book, in which McCain recalls publicly supporting South

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Who Cooked the Planet?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they’re still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died — the hottest such stretch on record.

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How Obama decided to expand offshore oil drilling

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:15:21 -0700

Kansas City Star - Jun. 13 - How Obama decided to expand offshore oil drilling By STEVEN THOMMA McClatchy Newspapers More News Weeks before the world had ever heard of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, President Barack Obama stood in the Roosevelt Room of the White House poring over

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John McCain follies

Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - May. 15 (Opinion) - I was readying to write about an immigration article I found interesting and then a TARP article I found depressing, but then I realized that both articles were actually about John McCain and I could cover them in one post. The first is by Joanna Lydgate, and it examines the border-security bill McCain is pushing now that he?s decided to stop supporting the comprehensive approach to immigration reform that he once understood to be necessary. It includes an expansion of Project Streamline, a policy aimed at criminally prosecuting and imprisoning every illegal immigrant picked up by authorities. Lydgate, who?s studied Operation Streamline, has found the program to be a mess: It forces the legal system to spend its time on nonviolent offenders ...

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The Day After

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:44:53 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - It is worth pausing to dwell on what happened in the White House on Tuesday: President Obama, just over a year into a tumultuous presidency in which he was sometimes wrong-footed and often adrift, signed the most momentous social legislation in many

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Lessons for the President After Health Care Triumph

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Mar. 23 - President Obama has gained an infusion of political capital, but it may not help him advance his agenda in Congress.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Frank Rich - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - Violent invective, once largely confined to blogs and talk radio, is now spreading among Republicans in public office or aspiring to it.

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John McCain, no more the iconoclast

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Dana Milbank - Feb. 06 (Opinion) - I miss the McCain I sat with on a flight from San Diego to Phoenix back in 1999, when he defended his oft-ridiculed belief that campaign finance was the most important issue in America: because the corrupting influence of money in politics was preventing all other issues -- taxes, abortion, you name it -- from being solved.

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Palin agonistes

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Sarah Palin.

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The Hard and Bitter Truth

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bob Herbert - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - President Obama will face hard realities if he continues the war in Afghanistan.

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Sweet, Tweet Revenge

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - It was only a matter of time, once John McCain joined the 21st century and got himself a Ford Fusion Hybrid, a Facebook page and a Twitter account, that he would reconnect with people out of his past he would rather forget.

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The First 100 Days of John McCain

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Politics Daily - By Walter Shapiro - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - Even if McCain had won the White House with a clear majority --– instead of becoming the second successive Republican president to take office after losing the popular vote --– he probably would have been hard-pressed to find common ground with congressional Democrats on the economy. The ideological fault lines have been deep, from the size of the economic stimulus package (McCain's original $420 billion proposal prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to brand him "President McCheap") to the administration's laissez-faire attitude toward a looming General Motors bankruptcy and the almost certain dismemberment of Chrysler (the Detroit Free Press headlined, "McCain to City: Drop Dead").

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Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Bruce Bartlett - Apr. 16 (Opinion) - many protesters implicitly assume that that the deficit has increased solely as a result of Barack Obama's policies. But in fact, the Congressional Budget Office was projecting a deficit of more than $1 trillion this year back in January, before any of Obama's policies had been enacted, and a cumulative deficit of $4.3 trillion through 2019. (CBO made no assumptions about what his policies might be in making its projection.)

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