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Today's Op/Ed: The Democrats' budget 'defeat': Can they bounce back? Should 'fleebagger' Democrats be fined for missing work? As Arab strongmen exit, will democracy really take root? Drew Carey: From 'The Price is Right' to the Senate? Why RomneyCare is worth supporting Is the iPad 3 the one to wait for? Save America's foreign policy budget 'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects' Why the Right Attacked Unions, ACORN and Planned Parenthood Could the price of gas hit $7 a gallon? Uganda election was reality check for Africa, West THE PHONY BUDGET CRISIS Foreign aid isn't foreign. It's American. The War on Women's Futures Should BYU really suspend a basketball player for having sex? Smoking: The 'disturbing' downside of female empowerment? WikiLeaks: The Movie? Diagnosing Charlie Sheen: 5 theories How Obama's Alma Mater Treated an Iraq War Vet The Democrats' budget 'defeat': Can they bounce back? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:47 am PST The Week - The Left agrees to GOP spending cuts to temporarily avert a government shutdown. Will they fare any better in the showdown over a long-term deal? Full Story Top Should 'fleebagger' Democrats be fined for missing work? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 02:29 am PST The Week - Wisconsin Democrats are holed up in Illinois to prevent a vote on a tough anti-union bill, and now state Republicans will fine them $100 a day for going AWOL Full Story Top As Arab strongmen exit, will democracy really take root? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 06:55 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - Something in the new political calculus of the new Middle East does not seem to compute. The overthrow of several “strongmen” does not miraculously nor instantly transmogrify an autocracy into a democracy. For more than a millennium, the Arab world has been addicted to and revered strongmen. Has it suddenly kicked the habit? Wait before you answer that. Full Story Top Drew Carey: From 'The Price is Right' to the Senate? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:17 am PST The Week - Libertarian activists launch an effort to draft the TV star as a challenger to liberal Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown Full Story Top Why RomneyCare is worth supporting Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:32 am PST The Week - Mitt Romney is sidestepping his Massachusetts health care reforms, says Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic. But the program that inspired ObamaCare is popular, and it works Full Story Top Is the iPad 3 the one to wait for? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 04:41 am PST The Week - No sooner had the iPad 2 been announced than tech bloggers started hyping the third generation of Apple's vaunted tablet as the real game-changer. Here's why Full Story Top Save America's foreign policy budget Thu, 3 Mar 2011 01:38 pm PST The Christian Science Monitor - In newly budget-conscious America, here’s a suggestion that is routinely offered on talk shows: End foreign aid; shore up America first. It’s a similar cry on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers want to cut the proposed budget for the State Department in half. Full Story Top 'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects' Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:42 am PST The Week - Thomas Carlyle's bit of wisdom looks to be the motto of the GOP’s 2012 field of candidates Full Story Top Why the Right Attacked Unions, ACORN and Planned Parenthood Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:13 am PST The Nation - The Nation -- For the past two weeks, all eyes have been glued on Madison, Wisconsin. The collective and joyful resistance to Governor Scott Walker’s power-grabbing budget bill has inspired the demoralized progressive base and put the corporate-backed assault on working people front and center in the national conversation. Full Story Top Could the price of gas hit $7 a gallon? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:11 am PST The Week - Gas prices keep jumping as the crisis in the Middle East continues. How high will they go? Full Story Top Uganda election was reality check for Africa, West Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:08 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - Yoweri Museveni’s decisive victory in Uganda’s elections will, despite complaints of election fraud, extend his 25-year rule by another five years, putting to rest any thought that winds of change from North Africa would blow south across the Sahara. It looks instead as if the veteran leader, who came to power at the head of a rebel army, is settling in for a Life Presidency in the old, African style. Full Story Top THE PHONY BUDGET CRISIS Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:35 am PST Ted Rall - Forget Austerity. Tax the Rich. Full Story Top Foreign aid isn't foreign. It's American. Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:17 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - I am proud to be an American – no more so than when the ideals of freedom, liberty, and equality on which this nation were founded are espoused by those living in far-off lands. It is our American patriotic duty to wholeheartedly support the betterment of the lives of those struggling overseas under conditions of deprivation, oppression, stifled economic hope, and strangled dreams. Full Story Top The War on Women's Futures Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:51 am PST The Nation - The Nation -- Using small-government, libertarian rhetoric, the Tea Party ushered in a new crop of Republican leaders under the banner of fiscal responsibility. But the aggressive antichoice legislation coming from the new GOP majority in the House makes perfectly clear that belt-tightening deficit reduction is entirely compatible with an older social agenda committed to pushing American women out of the public sphere. Full Story Top Should BYU really suspend a basketball player for having sex? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:32 am PST The Week - Sophomore center Brandon Davies was booted off the team for sleeping with his girlfriend, which violates the conservative school's exacting honor code Full Story Top Smoking: The 'disturbing' downside of female empowerment? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 06:15 am PST The Week - Women are making big gains in the developing world. But as they secure more rights and money, they're also picking up a dangerous habit Full Story Top WikiLeaks: The Movie? Thu, 3 Mar 2011 05:35 am PST The Week - Steven Spielberg's studio hopes to do for Julian Assange what "The Social Network" did for Mark Zuckerberg Full Story Top Diagnosing Charlie Sheen: 5 theories Thu, 3 Mar 2011 02:51 am PST The Week - The actor's bizarre media blitz has raised questions about his drug use and psychological wellbeing. Here, five armchair diagnoses Full Story Top How Obama's Alma Mater Treated an Iraq War Vet Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:00 am PST Larry Elder - "Racist!" shouted some Columbia University students at an Iraq War vet. Other students reportedly "hissed and booed." Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who spoke at Columbia three years earlier, received better treatment from the audience. Full Story Top

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