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"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." –Harry S Truman

Monday, February 11, 2008

Scenes from the Titanic

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As the Obama wave rises, Hillary Clinton is busy rearranging the deck, changing campaign chairs, throwing NBC cable overboard and lending ...

Bush: "I'm Just a Simple President"

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George W. Bush certified John McCain as a "true conservative" yesterday. In emeritus mode on Fox News, the President told Chris ...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Democratic Trainwreck Scenario

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Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore's 2000 campaign, says flatly about the Super Delegates , "If 795 of my colleagues decide this el...
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Clinton-Obama: Loser Takes All?

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With Barack Obama's Saturday sweep, are the Democrats headed for their own version of Bush-Gore 2000 in which the candidate with the mos...
Saturday, February 09, 2008

All the President's Movies, 2009

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If Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share a winning ticket, they could end up watching "Casablanca" together, but only if they can...
Friday, February 08, 2008

Bill Clinton: Playing With Words Again

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"I think the mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse like any other spouse who could defend his candidate," Bill Clint...

The Automated Author

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Amazon.com offers 85,888 books written by Philip M. Parker, but Parker himself claims over 200,000. A professor of management science, Park...

Raising Arizona, McCain and Goldwater

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After Super Tuesday, John McCain told local supporters they were "a little bit closer to the day when mothers in Arizona might be able ...

The Economy, Stupid--Again

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With the imminent passage and signing of the stimulus bill , both parties have signed on to acknowledging that the economy is the major issu...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

War of Words

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Now that Mitt Romney has packed up his money and gone , those who oppose the bloodshed in Iraq know what they have to do between now and Nov...
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Waterboarding McCain

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The talk-radio torture of the Republican candidate-to-be goes on and, unlike those five years in the Hanoi Hilton, is beginning to show resu...
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White Men Can't Jump?

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are bringing to the fore the most neglected demographic in more than half a century of empowerment of minor...
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Howard Dean's Democratic Solution

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The Party Chairman, the Internet candidate of 2004 who flamed out in Iowa with a primal scream, has appointed himself to mediate who the can...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

John McCain's Friends

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The man who has more enemies in his own party than any front runner in memory keeps talking about friends. "Tonight, my friends," ...
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The Messages of Super Tuesday

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The results suggest that money and political muscle are not the be-all and end-all for getting to the White House. John McCain now has a cle...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Tanglefoot Romney

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In 1968, a Republican governor remarked, "Watching George Romney run for President is like watching a duck try to make love [PG version...

Easy Rider vs. Taxi Driver

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Move over, Chuck Norris, the real stars are ready for their closeups. Jack Nicholson got up early yesterday to appear on an LA morning TV sh...
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Stupor Tuesday

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If you haven't started the day with a headache, chances are you'll end with one. The mathematics of today's primaries would stup...
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Iraq, Iraq, Iraq

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Exit polls tomorrow night will undoubtedly show voters went into the booths worried about health care, home foreclosures, job security and o...

John McCain, Traitor

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In the eyes of its diehards, the Republican Party will go a long way tomorrow toward nominating a candidate who has betrayed its principles....
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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