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By Mike Rose
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By Eugene Robinson — How is it possible that BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward hasn’t been fired? At this point, how can anyone believe a word the man says? If he told me my mother loves me, I’d want a second source.
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By Eugene Robinson — Adm. Thad Allen is an expert on thankless jobs. After the initial response to Hurricane Katrina had been botched, President Bush assigned him to clean up the mess. Now President Obama has put him in charge of handling the worst oil spill in the nation’s history.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — Barack Obama is, in many admirable ways, our most progressive president in decades. But as an environmentalist, let’s face it, he’s no Richard Nixon.
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By Eugene Robinson — Not so fast, everybody. Rand Paul can’t abruptly disavow the extremist views on civil rights that he’s been espousing for years and expect us all to just move along.
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By Eugene Robinson — Rand Paul’s stunning victory in Kentucky demonstrates that the tea party movement does not intend to become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.
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By Eugene Robinson — Arizona’s latest attempt to put Latinos in their place is an oppressive new law that imposes restrictions on the teaching of history.
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By Eugene Robinson — Lena Horne, who died Sunday at 92, was an infiltrator and one of the most significant American entertainers of the 20th century.
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By Eugene Robinson — The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could.
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By Eugene Robinson — The notion that the first thing to do is “secure the border” between the United States and Mexico—and only then worry about comprehensive immigration reform—falls somewhere between hopeful fantasy and cynical cop-out.
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By Eugene Robinson — Nevada’s leading Senate candidate, who wants to return to the barter system, makes Sarah Palin sound like an intellectual, but they share a nostalgia for a golden age that never was.
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By Eugene Robinson — Arizona’s draconian new immigration law is an abomination—racist, arbitrary, oppressive, mean-spirited, unjust. About the only hopeful thing that can be said is that the legislation goes so outrageously far that it may well be unconstitutional.
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By Eugene Robinson — American public opinion seems to have become an unguided Weapon of Mass Suspicion, and it’s not hard to understand why.
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U.S. Army / Sgt. Matthew Moeller
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By Eugene Robinson — After five years and 42 American lives lost, the U.S. conquered three miles of the Korengal Valley. Now troops have been ordered to withdraw. It’s not just a metaphor, but a template for the whole war.
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"Scars of a Whipped Slave" / National Archives
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By Eugene Robinson — Slavery wasn’t just “a bad thing,” as Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour recently said in dismissing it. Littering is a bad thing. Slavery was this nation’s Original Sin, and the revisionists behind Confederate History Month should be ashamed.
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By Eugene Robinson — With attacks pouring in from both the left and the right, won’t someone at least pretend to take Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s side?
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — Entrenched black poverty, with all its causes and implications, barely makes a ripple in the public debate these days.
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By Eugene Robinson — At its holiest time of the year, the Roman Catholic Church is being forced to confront a more worldly riddle: What did the Holy Father know, and when did he know it?
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By Eugene Robinson — It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree militia by saying that there are “crazies on both sides.” This simply is not true.
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AP / Ross D. Franklin
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By Eugene Robinson — Let’s not pretend anymore that the tea party movement is harmless. Even Sarah Palin is making comments that could have lethal consequences, such as “Don’t Retreat, Instead—RELOAD!”
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By Eugene Robinson — On Sunday, as comprehensive health care reform was becoming a reality, some people couldn’t bear what they saw.
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By Eugene Robinson — No matter what the Democrats attempt or how they go about it, Republicans are going to complain, obstruct and attack. It’s hard to fathom why that took so long to sink in.
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By Eugene Robinson — It took the case of “JihadJane” to illuminate what should have been obvious by now: Anyone who claims to be able to identify a potential terrorist by appearance or nationality is delusional. There’s a reason why all of us have to take our shoes off at the airport.
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By Eugene Robinson — The former vice president’s ambitious daughter has in her hand a list of nine Justice Department lawyers whose “values” she has the gall to question. She ought to spend the time examining her own principles, if she can find them.
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By Eugene Robinson — Now that Obama has finally put a health care proposal on the table, the Democratic leaders in Congress have only one rational course of action: pass the thing, and quickly, or risk their party becoming the loyal minority.
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By Eugene Robinson — We’re the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can’t be stupid. We’re just pretending, right? We’re not really taking seriously the “argument” that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence—or even proof—that climate change is some kind of hoax.
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U.S. Air Force / Senior Airman Julianne Showalter
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By Eugene Robinson — Do you believe in miracles? I do, and here’s the proof: Dick Cheney said something reasonable.
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Flickr / SpecialKRB
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By Eugene Robinson — The headlines scream as if Godzilla were rising from the icy depths of the Potomac: “Sarah Palin: Threat or Menace?”
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Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany
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By Eugene Robinson — Even in the midst of a terrible natural disaster, spiriting away a busload of kids—with vague plans to worry about the “paperwork” later—is no act of charity.
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Flickr / lucamascaro
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By Eugene Robinson — A friend of mine once had a Toyota that wouldn’t die. The odometer had only a dim recollection of passing 100,000 miles, the body was dinged and the paint was faded and the interior was worn, but the thing just kept running. He finally parked it at the airport, removed the plates and walked away.
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AP / Charles Krupa
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By Eugene Robinson — When I heard Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, describe himself as a “Scott Brown Republican,” I groaned. It sounded as if he’s coming to Washington to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama’s first State of the Union address didn’t signal a political shift to the left or the right. It sounded more like a shrewd attempt to move from the inside to the outside.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s not enough to use variations of the word “fight” more than 20 times in the course of relatively brief remarks, as the president did Friday in Ohio. At some point, he needs to—metaphorically, of course—actually slug somebody.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — If President Obama has decided to give up on health care reform, he should just come out and say so. Then we could all get on with our lives—those of us with health insurance, that is.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — There are important lessons from the past year that Barack Obama and his team had better learn if he is to achieve his goal of being a “transformational” president.
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By Eugene Robinson — Republican Party grandees were all set to use Michael Steele in the most cynical way. Now it’s becoming clear that Steele has been using the users all along.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — Forgive me if I am neither shocked nor outraged at Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s skin. What I would find stunning is evidence that his assessment was anything but accurate.
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By Eugene Robinson — The clues that would have alerted authorities to the Christmas Day underwear bomber were buried under mountains of intelligence data.
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Flickr / Wagner T. Cassimiro "Aranha"
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By Eugene Robinson — The United States still considers Cuba a state sponsor of terror, even though the very notion is absurd.
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U.S. Navy / MC1 Denny C. Cantrell
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By Eugene Robinson — I had promised myself that I would treat Dick Cheney’s nonsensical outbursts like the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters, but my resolution will have to wait.
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AP / Evert Elzinga
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By Eugene Robinson — The United States will soon have about 100,000 troops chasing shadows in Afghanistan, not long after an airliner was nearly blown up by a terrorism suspect who had no connection to that country. What’s wrong with this picture?
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By Eugene Robinson — Last Christmas we were staring into the economic abyss. A year later, there’s reason to smile—but no telling where we’ll be a year from now.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — When all is said and done the health care reform legislation that President Obama now seems likely to sign into law, while an unlovely mess, will be remembered as a landmark accomplishment.
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AP / Ross D. Franklin
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By Eugene Robinson — Back in the heady days of 2008, as governor of our most at-risk state, Sarah Palin sounded a dire warning against climate change. What a difference a book tour makes.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — The president believes his Afghanistan surge will most likely create the conditions to bring the greatest number of U.S. troops home at the earliest possible date, a senior official said.
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Flickr / Brani's fashion dolls
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By Eugene Robinson — Tiger Woods has a Barbie thing so pronounced it suggests his philandering is as much about validation as lust.
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Otero
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By Eugene Robinson — Even if the surge works, why wouldn’t al-Qaida—or some like-minded group—simply set up shop in Somalia? Or in Yemen, another failing state?
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By Eugene Robinson — Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn’t with the science, it’s with the solutions.
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By Eugene Robinson — Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week hasn’t stopped the ice caps from melting.
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By Eugene Robinson — If killing a terrorist in Kandahar creates one in Killeen, we’ll never make progress.
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By Eugene Robinson — No force on earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own “lite” version of Eva Peron—a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy.
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