Editorial
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Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet?
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan's tired old terror tactics?
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TRIUMPH OF THE SWILL
(Ted Rall)
Ted Rall - "The Hurt Locker" Supports the Troops--and the Lies
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SANDS OF U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS CONTINUE TO SHIFT
(Georgie Anne Geyer)
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- On the surface, the meeting of Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week in Jerusalem looked like business as usual. The Israelis were snippy about their policies being perfect, and the U.S. rushed in to assure them we were forever faithful.
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Slacker Friday
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- "Think Again" column about how important right-wing talk radio is to the politics of this nation and what a mistake liberals make by failing to pay attention to it. That's here.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Deficient Cleaning Service
(Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Malkin - "Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House," Nancy Pelosi boasted before the 2006 midterm elections.
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NBC's Special Victims
(Brent Bozell III)
Brent Bozell III - NBC's "Law & Order" programs are long established and all over the schedule. But the sex-obsessed vice cops of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" are a breed apart. They exist to be socially provocative, which is to say, to rattle, to disturb. Viewers at home probably weren't ready for the plot that aired on NBC on March 3. These scriptwriters are so revolting that they become almost comical.
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The Disemboweling of America
(Pat Buchanan)
Pat Buchanan - Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism.
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The Democrats Won't Talk About This Provision
(Mona Charen)
Mona Charen - "You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future . ... We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy." — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, March 9, 2010
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Whose Values?
(Linda Chavez)
Linda Chavez - Liz Cheney has stirred up a hornet's nest. The former vice president's daughter now runs a group called Keep America Safe, which last week released a video questioning the "values" of Obama Justice Department lawyers who once represented clients detained at Guantanamo for terrorist activities.
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Real Genius
(Susan Estrich)
Susan Estrich - A year ago, David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser, was a genius. A year ago, Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff, was a wizard.
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Hollow sounds
Tap the side of any vessel and the sound you hear will tell you that whether it is full or not. The sound of an empty vessel being tapped was being he
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Turmoil in sports
Major sports in Pakistan are in turmoil and undergoing an overhaul perilously close to top world tournaments. Cricket seems to lurch from one crisis t
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By-poll showings
By-polls falling in between general elections are important in that they highlight the mood of voters. This mood, in Lahore, had been predicted long i