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In praise of earmarks
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Noonan's fake history lesson for Obama
opinion In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Peggy Noonan counseled our ever-ambitious President to focus on leaving a legacy that can be reduced to one sentence—a specious notion borrowed from former Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe L
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The Democratic Danger to Obama
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Obama's path to greatness
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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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The Republican Ruins
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The Republicans' Paranoid Style
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Cheney demands a Torture Commission
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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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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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Cheney's charge up the molehill
opinion The last recourse of the rear-guard, the only answer they have left, is that at least the nation has not been attacked at home since 2001. This is a blatant shift in their argument that reflects their fall from power. In office, they constantly w
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The case for Nancy Pelosi
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