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Today's Op/Ed: New Rule: You Can't Use "There Will Be No Cooperation for the Rest of the Year" as a Threat If There Was No Cooperation in the First Ha HC Reform Less a Monument to Idealism Than Act of Hubris Earth Hour? How about endangered species hour? Tehran's Coup in Iraq? Threats of Violence Against Public Officials Cannot Be Tolerated Healthcare's Modest Upside for Dem Coalition Bigger danger of healthcare bill: the arrogance of Congress Muslim women could be the key to ending extremism Brittney Griner: Your March Madness MVP Google out of China: Doing no evil OHIO'S UNLIKELY WARRIOR STUDENT LOAN OVERHAUL WILL IMPROVE LIVES THE POWER OF ZERO Bum's Rush for Bibi Bibi's Hollow Victory Australia, Bitten By a Filthy Dog Inevitable Decline? How the Left Fakes the Hate: A Primer What Really Matters DAMN! I WISH I WAS A REPUBLICAN New Rule: You Can't Use "There Will Be No Cooperation for the Rest of the Year" as a Threat If There Was No Cooperation in the First Ha Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:10 pm PDT HuffingtonPost.com - Read Bill Maher's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story Top HC Reform Less a Monument to Idealism Than Act of Hubris Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:00 pm PDT RealClearPolitics.com - While nobody knows what effects the health care reform bill passed by Congress will have on health care in America, the battle around this legislation is very likely to have disastrous effects on the nation's cultural health. Vitriol, hate, hysteria and dishonesty and stark political polarization have reached new lows even for our time, with each side in the debate bandying about accusations of murder. Full Story Top Earth Hour? How about endangered species hour? Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:21 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Millions of people around the world are switching off their lights for Earth Hour Saturday night in a growing grass-roots effort to conserve energy and draw attention to global warming. Full Story Top Tehran's Coup in Iraq? Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:47 pm PDT The Nation - The Nation -- Iran is losing no time in assembling a pro-Tehran government in Iraq, and in so doing Tehran may push the Sunni minority in Iraq into violent rebellion. Full Story Top Threats of Violence Against Public Officials Cannot Be Tolerated Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:34 pm PDT HuffingtonPost.com - Read Rev. Jesse Jackson's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story Top Healthcare's Modest Upside for Dem Coalition Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:00 pm PDT RealClearPolitics.com - There is no assurance last week's healthcare overhaul will expand the Democratic coalition despite representing the most sweeping social legislation since the 1960s, based on a RealClearPolitics analysis. Even under a best-case scenario for liberals, in the long term, the law will likely only bolster the Democratic coalition on the margins. Full Story Top Bigger danger of healthcare bill: the arrogance of Congress Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:33 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - We may never fully know the damage that will be done by the massive health care bill Congress passed on Sunday, but one thing is certain: It will lead to lower-quality care at higher costs. Full Story Top Muslim women could be the key to ending extremism Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:48 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Over the past decade, Western media have repeatedly portrayed images of Muslim women as victims. We have read about the Taliban publicly beating young Full Story Top Brittney Griner: Your March Madness MVP Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:28 pm PDT The Nation - The Nation -- A 6' 8" freshman is changing the way we understand hoops in the 2010 NCAA tournament and unless you're paying full attention to all the glories of March Madness, you'd never know it. Full Story Top Google out of China: Doing no evil Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:14 am PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Google cofounder Sergey Brin spent the early years of his childhood in the Soviet Union. His family felt firsthand what it was like to live under a totalitarian government. They didn’t like it, and managed to escape to the United States while he was still a young boy. Full Story Top OHIO'S UNLIKELY WARRIOR Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:58 pm PDT David Shribman - Ohio has changed its mind. In 1887, the state sent William Allen to Congress as one of its representatives in Statuary Hall. Full Story Top STUDENT LOAN OVERHAUL WILL IMPROVE LIVES Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:58 pm PDT Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- The United States used to be among the world's leaders in educating its citizenry. After World War II, Americans completed college at higher rates than most other countries as returning soldiers used the GI bill to pay tuition. Full Story Top THE POWER OF ZERO Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:59 pm PDT Richard Reeves - DALLAS -- Remember the good old days? Remember when a Republican senator, Olympia Snowe of Maine, said she heard history calling? Well, history did call and not a single Republican answered in Washington. Zero in the Senate. Zero in the House. Full Story Top Bum's Rush for Bibi Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT Linda Chavez - Judging by his actions to date, President Obama appears to have an almost visceral antipathy toward Israel. Full Story Top Bibi's Hollow Victory Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT Pat Buchanan - "The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital." Full Story Top Australia, Bitten By a Filthy Dog Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT Brent Bozell III - It seems like it's been quite some time since our National Endowment for the Arts has shocked the public with an outrageous grant for a ridiculous "artist" whose art flourishes only when the taxpayer is forced against his will to subsidize it. Sadly, that means these "artists" must take their talents elsewhere in search of public funding. Full Story Top Inevitable Decline? Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT Mona Charen - Throughout the past year of debate on health care reform, the conservative fear and the liberal hope were identical — that passage of a huge new entitlement program would prove irreversible. "No one now dares touch Social Security or Medicare" crow the Democrats, and it will be the same with Obamacare. Full Story Top How the Left Fakes the Hate: A Primer Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT Michelle Malkin - If you can't stand the heat, manufacture a hate-crime epidemic. Full Story Top What Really Matters Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT Susan Estrich - Something very scary is happening out there. Full Story Top DAMN! I WISH I WAS A REPUBLICAN Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:58 pm PDT Ted Rall - What Lefties Could Learn from The Party of No Full Story Top

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