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E.J. Dionne Jr.: Political stupidity, U.S. style
Washington Post
Can a nation remain a superpower if its internal politics are incorrigibly stupid? Start with taxes. In every other serious democracy, conservative political parties feel at least some obligation to match their tax policies with their spending plans....
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LA Times
WikiLeaks and us Re "A whistle-blower with global resonance," and "WikiLeaks wasn't wrong," Editorial, July 27 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian hacker, may end up being one of the best things to ever happen to our American...
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Still Too Big to Nail: Jonathan Weil
Bloomberg
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- The White House says it’s finally ready to consider new ideas for what to do about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . Still absent from the government’s agenda is any serious effort to hold...
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America Needs Willpower - And the Right Leaders
FOX News
Nearly nine years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, how are we doing at national security and homeland security? Short answer: Not well. And as we saw Wednesday in the case of U.S. v. Arizona, the Obama...
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When kids can't wait
Chicago Tribune
"Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly effective teacher — in every classroom, of every school, of every neighborhood, of every ward, in this City. That is our commitment. Today...
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The candor war
LA Times
U.S. military documents reveal that in Afghanistan's most strategic districts, only about a quarter of the population supports the government in Kabul. The documents also include evidence that the government is riddled with corruption, that the Taliban-led insurgency...
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Try a Little Tenderness
Wall Street Journal
Back when the rather radical and ill-thought-through movement known as the John Birch Society—they thought, among other things, that Dwight Eisenhower was perhaps a communist—was still famous and controversial, conservative Ronald Reagan was running for office. A group...
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From Gibson to Ahmadinejad
Chicago Tribune
Iran-watchers could learn a lot from Mel Gibson. In July 2006, the action-movie star, producer and director was arrested along Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway for drunken driving. Gibson, furious and raving, somehow managed to blame the Jews for...
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