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The lies of August
opinion The stakes are high and Republicans are stooping low. But if health reform falters as a result of GOP demagoguery, Democrats may face a reconstituted Gingrich coalition in 2010.
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Race-baiting the President
opinion Rubert Murdoch, Matt Drudge, and their followers sought to use the Gates imbroglio as a racial rallying cry against Obama. With health-care reform on the line, defusing the hysteria was worth a beer.
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In praise of earmarks
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The Democratic Danger to Obama
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Cheney demands a Torture Commission
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The Republican Ruins
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The Republicans' Paranoid Style
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Smear Britannia: Conservatives open a new front on health care
opinion In their effort to destroy health-care reform in the U.S., conservatives have been heaping lies upon government-run health care in the U.K. Britons would never surrender their National Health System. Once Democrats pass reform here, Americans won
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The doomsayers are wrong about Obama, again
opinion The press, Republicans, and frustrated progressives think Obama is struggling and his health plan "on the precipice of defeat." That just proves that those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat their own mistakes.
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The GOP decline starts Phase Two
opinion Republicans seem to be enjoying their August delirium and perhaps they should. For them, it only gets worse from here as the economy improves and Democrats ride growth—and their enactment of health-care reform—into the midte
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Attack of the Zombie Republicans
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Obama's eloquence in action
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Sharia politics at Notre Dame
opinion In the neo-Caths’ view, if Obama disagrees with Catholic doctrine, he must be condemned and silenced—even if he’s not a member of the church. This assertion of an almost limitless role for the church in public lif
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The case for Nancy Pelosi
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