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By Robert Kuttner
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By E.J. Dionne — California, Illinois, Florida and New Jersey should be applauded for mobilizing to hold earlier presidential primaries.
Posted on Jan 29, 2007
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AP / Dave Martin
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By Chris Hedges — The Harvard seminary graduate, veteran foreign correspondent and author of “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America”, warns that the Christian Right is the most dangerous mass movement in American history.
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AP Photo / Denis Poroy
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By Joshua Scheer — Annie Nelson, wife of Willie Nelson and co-chairperson of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, speaks to Truthdig about stomaching the State of the Union and the myth that alternative fuels are years away.
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By Andy Borowitz — The satirist reports that critics are assailing the terrorist mastermind’s annual speech as being nothing more than a vague laundry list of terror targets.
Posted on Jan 26, 2007
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Truthdig tips its hat this week to the newly elected Democratic senator from Virginia, who delivered a blistering response to President Bush’s State of the Union address.
Posted on Jan 26, 2007
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AP / Sunday Alamba
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By Gbemisola Olujobi — A native Nigerian writer takes stock of the changing face of her country’s most prominent economic export after oil: e-mail scams.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007
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By Ellen Goodman — The baby boomers who were once suspicious of anyone over 30 are now skeptical of Barack Obama because he’s under 50.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne — Sen. Jim Webb replied to Bush’s State of the Union speech with a moral clarity almost unheard-of since the days of The Great Communicator.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007
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By Marie Cocco — She may lack Obama’s charisma and Edwards’ poise, but Sen. Clinton has made fools of her naysayers before.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007
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By Jabari Asim — “Grey’s Anatomy’’ star Isaiah Washington’s recent meltdown was as puzzling as it was repulsive.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007
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By Joe Conason — None of the progressive-sounding proposals in the president’s speech stand any chance of actually arriving on Capitol Hill as legislation.
Posted on Jan 25, 2007
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AP Photo / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Stop him before he kills again. That is the judgment of the American people, and indeed of the entire world, as to the performance of our president, and no State of the Union address can erase that dismal verdict.
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By Marie Cocco — Congressional Republicans have an opportunity to be both pragmatic and idealistic by abandoning the president on the war.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
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By Nicholas Schmidle — Pakistan’s “madrassas” have been described as “jihad universities” because of their ties to the Taliban and Islamic extremists, but a small-scale indigenous effort to reform the religious schools could be making more progress than the combined forces of the American, British and Pakistani governments.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
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AP / Evan Vucci
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By E.J. Dionne — The Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton 2008 contest highlights the differences between bottom-up and top-down political campaigns.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
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BradBlog.com
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Brad Friedman —
If Congress wants to be treated like a coequal branch of government, it has to act like one, and Bush’s State of the Union address is the perfect time to start. Pictured above, Sen. Jim Webb, who will deliver the Democratic response to the president’s speech.
Posted on Jan 20, 2007
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By Andy Borowitz — The satirist reports on a potential wellspring of the apocalypse.
Posted on Jan 19, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne — John Edwards’ plan for running a higher budget deficit to pay for universal healthcare coverage has the virtue of being honest.
Posted on Jan 19, 2007
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By Joe Conason — Should the United States attack Iran, which side would the Iraqi government support? The answer to that simple question is far from clear, despite the thousands of lives and billions of dollars we have sacrificed to support the ruling coalition in Baghdad.
Posted on Jan 18, 2007
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By Marie Cocco — Senate Democrats and Republicans have shamelessly joined in a bipartisan effort to pad the well-off at the expense of the working poor.
Posted on Jan 18, 2007
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By Ellen Goodman — President Bush has done it again, appointing a doctor who opposes family planning to run the nation’s family planning program.
Posted on Jan 18, 2007
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From Scott Dalton / The Los Angeles Times
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By Paul Cummins — A wildly successful Venezuelan governmental program that makes free musical instruments and training available to all children should serve as a model for the U.S. as we struggle to keep guns out of kids’ hands.
Posted on Jan 17, 2007
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AP / Eranga Jayawardena
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By Richard Walden — As the rest of Southeast Asia emerges from the ravages of the tsunami, Sri Lanka, the small island country southeast of India, further deteriorates amid a brutal, decades-long civil war. The head of an international aid agency, just back from the region, reports.
Posted on Jan 16, 2007
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When Susan McDougal refused to implicate the Clintons in the Whitewater fiasco, she was thrown in prison, left alone with murderers and her own stubborn dignity. Savaged by Republicans and abandoned by Democrats, she would emerge from that dark chapter of American history a hero.
UPDATE: Full transcript now available.
Posted on Jan 16, 2007
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