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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:22:15 -0800

Obama Breaks Silence on Terrorist Attempt
President Obama "emerged from Hawaiian seclusion to try to quell gathering criticism of his administration's handling of the...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:11:58 -0800

Mississippi is Most Religious State
A new Pew Research survey finds Mississippi is the most religious state, followed by Alabama and Arkansas. Vermont and New...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:06:15 -0800

JFK Photo is a Fake
"In a colossal screw-up, the gossip web site TMZ.com today published a photo purporting to show John F. Kennedy frolicking on...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:59:18 -0800

Webb-Allen Rematch?
The Washington Post reports that former Sen. George Allen (R-VA) opened the door to a possible rematch against Sen. Jim Webb...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:31 -0800

Political Winners and Losers
According to Gallup, solid majorities of Americans label Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sonia Sotomayor, and Barack Obama as...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:34:11 -0800

War Widens to Yemen
"In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:23:36 -0800

Odds of Airborne Terror
Nate Silver notes that from October 1999 through September 2009 there has been one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 airplane...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:39:44 -0800

Bonus Quote of the Day
"They all joined hands and walked of the cliff together." -- Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by The Hill, on the...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:36:19 -0800

Notes from the Cracked Ceiling
Out this week: Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win by Anne...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:35:17 -0800

Quote of the Day
"The situation in the Senate is an offshoot of the old Newt Gingrich philosophy. Back in the 1980s when I was in the House...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:52:29 -0800

Why Obama Stays Silent
Marc Ambinder notes that by not making a public statement on the terrorist plane attack on Christmas, President Obama is trying...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:19:09 -0800

Moderates Push to Drop Cap-and-Trade
"Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:15:28 -0800

Whoppers of the Year
Factcheck.org lists some of the worst examples of political lies encountered during the first year of the Obama...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:25:39 -0800

Some Perspective
According to the Toronto Star, the health care reform package now before Congress "will extend insurance to a medically...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:23:15 -0800

Moving Forward on the Health Care Bill
Lawmakers will be cutting their vacations short, in an effort to get a health care reform bill on President Obama's desk...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:14:58 -0800

No More Lincoln Bedroom Sleepovers
At the end of her column, Peggy Noonan tells a story of two former Reagan administration officials who were given a private...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:20:16 -0800

Best-Selling Political Books
Sarah Palin hangs onto the top spot on the New York Times list of best selling political books: 1. Going Rogue, by Sarah...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:16:37 -0800

Quote of the Day
"I don't think the Senate has an appetite for another such epic, polarized legislative war this session." -- Sen. Joseph...
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:23:50 -0800

Playing by the Rules
The New York Times notes that as much as President Obama "presented himself as an outsider during his campaign," a lesson of...
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Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:55:34 -0800

Merry Christmas!
I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and hope you had a great day with your family and friends -- whether you...
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Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0800

Friday Night Trivia
Wyoming is the only state with an entirely Republican Congressional delegation. Every other state has at least one Democrat...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:09:09 -0800

Kennedy is Gone But Not Forgotten
Though he died in August, Sen. Ted Kennedy remained the Democrats' spiritual floor leader for today's Senate health care...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:13:00 -0800

Santa Has Political Roots
Steven Heller: "Santa did not become the universal Claus until 1863, when the American political cartoonist Thomas Nast,...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:16:04 -0800

An Ugly Victory
Ezra Klein: "Passing legislation, it turns out, is a long and ugly process. God, is it ugly. The compromises, both with...
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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:58:52 -0800

Americans Prefer Democratic Policies
A new CNN/Opinion Research survey indicates that a majority of Americans believe that the Democratic party's policy proposals...
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