Tag: politics
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July 14, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
As the debate about the war in Iraq (and the larger "war on terror") continues, I hear often that the US "must win" the war. But I'm having difficulty determining what "win" . . .
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June 09, 2007 06:47 AM EDT --
Have you noticed how politicians and the media are great at providing false choices? These are “choices” that are created as straw men to oversimplify the issue to the point of having to choose . . .
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August 15, 2007 09:37 AM EDT --
In September General Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his report to Congress on the progress of the military surge and political reform in Iraq. The Democrats have been using the progress report . . .
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June 05, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
Ah, the CNN debates. First the general. Both were emceed by Wolf Blitzer, which I believe worked better than the earlier debate format (at least overall). The flexibility he had to keep the pace moving . . .
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March 15, 2008 06:54 PM EDT --
Everyone else has their predictions, so here are mine for the three remaining presidential candidates.
John McCain : Will lose the general election due more to the Bush legacy than any failings on . . .
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August 21, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
A report was released today that suggests former CIA Director George Tenet "failed to lead a strategic effort against al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks..." The report by the CIA's . . .
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May 14, 2008 05:37 PM EDT --
John Edwards has decided to endorse Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for President.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/?nav=globaltop
I suspect he would have discussed this with Clinton . . .
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August 05, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
Lately there has been a lot of discussion about race - or more specifically, racism - in the Presidential election. Except most of it is a ruse by the Republicans as part of their predetermined . . .
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February 23, 2008 08:35 AM EST --
Much has been debated recently about whether the primary and caucus system of selecting the Democratic and Republican nominees for President works. Many point to the proportional system of the Democrats . . .
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April 15, 2008 12:51 AM EDT --
The following is from a blog by Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporter who with Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story that ultimately became the downfall of Richard Nixon. Bernstein, now . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Four of the last six Presidents have been left-handed: Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton.
Barack Obama and John McCain are left-handed. Hillary Clinton is right-handed. . . .
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December 04, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
From my inside sources it appears that President-elect Barack Obama will name Lisa Jackson as the new EPA Adminstrator.
Jackson is former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental . . .
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April 19, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
"Politics is a contact sport"
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"
"The Republicans have already rummaged through my dirty laundry"
There seems . . .
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September 06, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
The title of my post is one line taken somewhat out of context (but not out of meaning) from an article called "The Vanishing Republican Voter" by David Frum in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07Inequality-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=magazinehttp://www.yahoo.com/ . . .
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April 17, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
In reference to the Clinton/Obama debate last night, I came across an extraordinary column by Michael Greenwald of Time magazine, entitled "The Dems Play Trivial Pursuit."
Please read it . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:49 AM EDT --
It's time. Bill Richardson and John Edwards have yet to endorse either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Others haven't either (e.g., Joe Biden, whom I would also like to see endorse . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:50 PM EST --
I received an email from Michelle H earlier today with this question: "
" You are the scientist...How many years of oil do we have left on the planet?
I'm thinking . . .
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March 20, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
Hillary Clinton often claims that she has won the big states and therefore the superdelegates should hand her the Democratic nomination even though she has won less delegates, won . . .
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July 31, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
By HARRY COVERT
When Nolan Dawkins was growing up, he and his childhood playmate couldn't get a drink of water outside of their homes in Alexandria, Va.
In those days, the city was part of . . .
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October 21, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that the United States and the world would not let Iran get nuclear weapons. In a speech he gave to the Institute for Near East Studies, Cheney said "Our . . .
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