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Today's Op/Ed:
You think you know Tiger Woods?
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - Do you know Tiger Woods? Of course you don't. But you think that you do. Full Story
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Forget Tiger Woods. Is your marriage solid?
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - Tabloids have pounced on Tiger Woods for his apparent failure to uphold family values. Their stories use traditional morals to define adultery as scandal and include words like "sin" and "confession." Full Story
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The Economic Reality That No One Wants to Talk About
Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:46 am PST
HuffingtonPost.com - Read Robert Reich's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story
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George Will-ful Blushes
Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:25 pm PST
The Nation - The Nation -- Ever since Barack Obama's inauguration, progressives have been able to point to one segment of the traditional media that consistently bears witness to the depth of change implied by the Democratic landslide: the chastened demeanor of George Will on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Full Story
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The real jobs summit? At the Bernanke Fed.
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - The person best able to bring back jobs to unemployed Americans spent Thursday trying to keep his own job. Full Story
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The Afghanistan Parenthesis
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:32 am PST
HuffingtonPost.com - Read David Bromwich's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story
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In a Big-Issue Week, Joblessness Remains the Biggest Issue
Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:05 am PST
The Nation - The Nation -- The official unemployment rate of 10.2 percent is the worst in a quarter century. Full Story
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A Missed Opportunity
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:00 pm PST
RealClearPolitics.com - At West Point, President Obama told Americans that we must send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. In promising to draw down force levels in 2011, he projected confidence that the military and civilian surges, better training of Afghan soldiers and policemen and pressure for political reform would allow for a rapid and substantial Afghanization of the war. Full Story
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Dems Doing Liberalism Badly
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:00 pm PST
RealClearPolitics.com - Democrats lived down the Great Society's excesses for decades. Yet today's Democrats appear unable to even get basic liberalism right. A historic progressive moment has passed. The cost is millions of jobs and over the long term, the perception of liberalism's efficacy. Full Story
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Tiger Woods scandal may be news. But we don't have to gawk.
Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - Golf's golden boy has fallen and many Americans are pointing and laughing. As soon as the headlines hit – Tiger Woods was in a car accident last week mired in mystery – the schadenfreude began: Was he cheating? Was he drinking? Did his wife beat him up? Is their marriage doomed? Full Story
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LOST IN AFGHANISTAN
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:58 pm PST
Richard Reeves - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama says a lot of smart things. During his campaign last year, in his second debate with Sen. John McCain, in Nashville, he closed by saying: Full Story
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Cut Taxes To Create Jobs
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:00 am PST
Linda Chavez - The president's job summit this week may be good public relations, but it won't do anything to help create jobs in this depressing economy. Full Story
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Does Obama Listen to Himself?
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:00 am PST
Mona Charen - Barack Obama is demonstrating bottomless reservoirs of gracelessness. Full Story
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Obama's Exit Strategy
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:00 am PST
Pat Buchanan - If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush's wars and coming home. Full Story
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The War on Cops
Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:00 am PST
Michelle Malkin - The left's police-hating chickens are coming home to roost. While partisan liberals have gone out of their way to blame conservative media and the Tea Party movement for creating a "climate of hate," they are silent on the cultural and literal war on cops that has raged for decades — and escalated tragically this year. Full Story
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OBAMA STRATEGY TO END WAR BY MAKING WAR
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:58 pm PST
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- His demeanor was not that of a young and inexperienced president, but that of an elder statesman. There was none of the boyish, fun-loving, "isn't-this-all-amazing?" charm that has exemplified so much of his public life. He smiled not once. Full Story
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DINNER AND A REALITY SHOW
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:04 pm PST
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- There must have been other people at the Obamas' first state dinner last week, but frankly I am not sure. Since the only pictures are of the omnipresent Michaele and Tareq Salahi, in their fine duds and supercilious manners, posing with as many of our leaders as they could get their hands on, it may very well be that they were the whole show. Full Story
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SCIENCE AS RELIGION
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:04 pm PST
Maggie Gallagher - What can we learn from Climategate -- i.e., the scandal in which hacked e-mails revealed apparent attempts by official climate scientists to manufacture a consensus on global warming by fudgung with the data and punishing dissidents? Full Story
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DO SMOKING GUNS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING, TOO?
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:04 pm PST
Ann Coulter - As we now know (and by "we" I mean "everyone with access to the Internet"), the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth's temperature. Full Story
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The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:00 am PST
Joe Conason - From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged "Obama's War," and perhaps that is fair enough given the president's many endorsements of what he has called a war of necessity. It would be much less fair, however, to ignore the events that led us to this moment, when whatever choice he makes will offer no great guarantee of progress and no small prospect of trouble. Full Story
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