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Today's Op/Ed:
Time for the Warriors
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:05 am PDT
HuffingtonPost.com - Read Wyclef Jean's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story
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Note to Liberal Elite: It's Not About Race
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - New York Times columnist Frank Rich argues that opponents of Obama's healthcare legislation are motivated by racism. The Washington Post's Colbert King believes Tea Party activists "forerunners" are Southern segregationists. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution's Cynthia Tucker views racist incidents as a "reflection on the Grand Old Party" overall. Full Story
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Peace for Israelis and Palestinians? Not without America's tough love.
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:48 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - More than 20 years ago, many Americans decided they could no longer watch as racial segregation divided South Africa. Compelled by an injustice thousands of miles away, they demanded that their communities, their colleges, their municipalities, and their government take a stand. Full Story
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Minority Opinions on the iPad
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 02:06 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- The iPad -- It's very strange. It started arriving in stores April 1 and the reviewers are already calling it a game changer but one aspect of the new device is causing consternation among some. Full Story
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Ten Rules for Democratic Success in Midterm Elections
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:51 am PDT
HuffingtonPost.com - Read Robert Creamer's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story
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Why the Health Care Bill Could Be Repealed
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - The punditocracy has recently been consumed with a debate over whether or not the Republicans will be able to repeal the recently-passed health care bill. Outside of self-professed conservative pundits, the conventional wisdom seems to be that the odds are prohibitively against repeal (or significant modification). Full Story
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Sri Lanka elections: Will Tamil rights be upheld?
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:40 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Last May, after more than a quarter century of civil war between government forces and Tamil separatists, a fragile peace came to Sri Lanka. Full Story
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Talk to the Editor for April 1: Books
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:08 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Join us right here at 1PM EST for a live webcast featuring Monitor editor John Yemma, the Monitor's Pat Murphy, Monitor books editor Marjorie Kehe, and a conversation about our books coverage. We'll touch on recent books, author interviews, how you can participate, and more. Please join us in our live conversation by leaving questions on the Monitor's Facebook page or on Twitter, using the tag #csmonitor. Full Story
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"Queer the Census"
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:38 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- The Constitution mandates that Americans be counted. Full Story
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National education standards not a federal takeover of public schools
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:12 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - This is the last week for public comment on proposed national education standards in English and math for all American public school students in grades K-12. The feedback on this consequential plan so far: Full Story
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OUT-REPUBLICANING THE REPUBLICANS
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 04:58 pm PDT
Ted Rall - Obama Revives Clinton's Disastrous Triangulation Strategy Full Story
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Against ObamaCare? You're a Fascist Racist Hater
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:00 am PDT
Larry Elder - Differences of opinion and ideology, passionately held, drive the opposition against ObamaCare. Full Story
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Democracy and Domestic Violence
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:00 am PDT
Joe Conason - When the Department of Homeland Security released a cautiously worded report on the potential dangers of right-wing extremism last April, the talk-radio wingnuts and certain Republican lawmakers went into spasms of indignation. Clearly, that report — an innocuous nine-page document commissioned by the previous Republican administration — had been conjured up by White House Democrats to smear conservatives. Full Story
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PRESCRIPTIONS FOR DISASTER NOW COVERED UNDER OBAMACARE
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:58 pm PDT
Ann Coulter - On the "Today" show this Tuesday, President Obama claimed the massive government takeover of health care the Democrats passed without a single Republican vote was a "middle of the road" bill that incorporated many Republican ideas. Full Story
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Obamacare’s Consequence
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:35 pm PDT
The Weekly Standard - The liberal line is that President Obama has secured his place in history by signing into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Full Story
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HEALTH CARE PROTESTS ARE A CULTURAL WAKE-UP CALL
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:35 am PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Even as the United States seemed to take a promising step forward on policy last week, the levels of incivility and vulgar, even dangerous behavior among our citizens reached new levels. This does not bode well for America's "civil society." Full Story
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Liberals In Vitriol Denial
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - When the Republicans shocked the liberal media elite by winning back Congress in 1994, they had been demonized for months. But it took the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995 for Bill Clinton and all of his "objective" media devotees to really pull the violence card and smear that mass murder all over Newt Gingrich and conservative Republicans, blaming it on their "anti-government" rhetoric. Full Story
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Henry Waxman: The Witch Hunter of Capitol Hill
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - Has there ever been a time when 18-term liberal Democratic Rep. Full Story
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Sarah Palin, Neocon Messiah
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT
Robert Scheer - Judge them by their enemies. More evidence that Barack Obama might be shaping up as a good president is that Norman Podhoretz hates him so much. In a Wall Street Journal column Monday, the guru of the neoconservatives declared: "I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama." Full Story
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Rejection Season
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - Yesterday, Stanford University announced it had accepted a mere 7.2 percent of the tens of thousands of high school seniors across the country who applied for admission to the class of 2014. Other highly selective schools will be making similar announcements in the days ahead. Full Story
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