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

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Slicing and Dicing the Electorate

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Whatever happened to the Melting Pot? Now we learn that "Barack Obama is faring better than might be expected among Jewish voters, beat...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Withdrawal Symptoms

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The pundits will have to go into rehab--the TV talking heads, newspaper columnists, the bloggers who have been overdosing on Obama-Clinton f...
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Hillary's Last Hurrah

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So it ends not with a bang but a whimper, the slow dribbling away of her "tiebreaker" victory in Indiana as Barack Obama seals the...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Iraq: The Price of Silence

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There was an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh yesterday. Three protesters showed up. Meanwhile , in Iraq, suicide bombers are killing people in...
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The Wright Reason

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If tonight's Indiana and North Carolina results keep Hillary Clinton's hopes alive, as they may well do, much of the blame will be h...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Cookie Monster in China

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The latest triumph of American cultural imperialism is the rise of Oreos as the best-selling treats in China after a marketing blitz to tea...

Kristol Ball on Obama and McCain

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Today's MSM campaign news: William Kristol : "In a New York Times /CBS News poll in late February, Obama was defeating John McCain ...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

Health Care: Slow-Motion Katrina

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John McCain says free enterprise will make it more efficient, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to tinker with it, but the evidence keep...

Obama's Anger and McCain's

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Michelle Obama is telling voters about her husband's feelings during this long, hard battle for the nomination, his thinking that ...
Saturday, May 03, 2008

Praying for a Doubt-Based Presidency

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"God wants me to be president," George W. Bush told fellow believers before 2000. If the rest of us had known His intentions, we w...

The Obama-Bill Clinton Thing

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All along, below the radar of contesting Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama has been matched up with her husband in a battle of both substance an...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Credit-Card Crackdown

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Being held up at gunpoint is a minor problem for most Americans compared to having money stolen from them by credit-card companies. Now, as ...
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Dumbing Down the Election

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Ever since George Bush sold the idea he would be a compassionate conservative, respect for voters' intelligence has been going rapidly d...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

This Just In, From an Alternate Reality

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Time Magazine has unveiled the world's most influential people chosen by its readers. Heading the list are the video game designer Shig...
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Hillary Clinton's Tightrope Dance

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She is putting in 16-hours days in Indiana, talking about gas prices and creating jobs but very little about Barack Obama. On Fox News, she...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Rolling Out War Against Iran

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It worked before the 2002 elections, so why not now? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the lame ducks that roar, are ready. So is John McCain....
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Hurt

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The politician was doing what he had to do, but Barack Obama's personal pain yesterday was palpable as he cut his ties to Jeremiah Wrig...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Obama's Binds

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He wanted it to be New Politics vs. Old Politics but, as the states dwindle down to a precious few, Barack Obama is being tied in political ...
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Iran's Petraeus

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As Frederick Kagan spins Neo-Con daydreams of "turning a corner," McClatchy reporters on the ground are telling a different story...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Rev. Wright's Publicity Blitz

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More than anything, it's the smile. Is it benign, beatific, self-satisfied or all of the above? As the Rev. Wright, with the help of the...
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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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