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Friday Talking Points [84] -- The Rockets' Red Glare, The Bombs Bursting In Air

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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What separates humans from animals can be summed up as one simple thing -- the mastery of fire. Even "using tools" doesn't cut it anymore, as apes ha...

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What Are You Working on? Part 3

Hillary Rubin | Posted 05.10.2009 | Living

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How many of you are looking for the work to stop? Do you want to just breathe and erase all your problems? Are you ready to learn a tool that will shi...

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Hillary, Michelle and Big Bird

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

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At this time in her husband's first term, Hillary was maneuvering to design and implement a plan for national health insurance. Now Michelle Obama is on Sesame Street.

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Special Relationship: Julianne Moore Playing Hillary Clinton?

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

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Julianne Moore has been cast to play the role of Hillary Clinton in the forthcoming film Special Relationship, which will focus on the Bill Clinton-Mo...

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Anybody Know What 'Smart Power' Means?

Lionel Beehner | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

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Hand it to Hillary Clinton. She's managed to sum up the bold new direction of US foreign policy into a bumper-friendly catchphrase: smart power. Sufficiently vague, the phrase is remarkable for its meaninglessness.

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The Dude: Filmmakers Can Abide in this Economy

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 01.17.2009 | Entertainment

While it may seem like a frivolous time to ask anyone for money to make a film, Jeff Dowd, the real life inspiration for the beloved chronically laid-...

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Friday Talking Points [59] -- New Year's Resolutions (For Democrats)

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

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Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...

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Friday Talking Points [56] -- Turkeys Everywhere!

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like gravy through ...

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Is Hillary Nomination Offer A Red Herring?

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

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You've got to ask yourself -- why is this the only story that has leaked in this fashion from the transition team?

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The Government in Exile: What Obama Can Do for Women

Marie Wilson | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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In a campaign whose rallying cry was "change", shifting the status of women in this country by bringing them fully to the tables of power would be a great place to start.

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Election Amnesia: Cuba on My Mind

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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With the election in the air, there are many things we've forgotten to remember. But Oscar Elias Biscet isn't one of them because, sadly, we never remembered the good Doctor Biscet in the first place.

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Note To McCain For Picking a Cute Buffoon

Anita Thompson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Thank you John McCain for picking a woman who represents the worst-case scenario.

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It's "Newspaper Week"

Michael DeJong | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green

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No matter how you receive your daily dose of everyday information, intelligent or dubious, if it's in print form, it's your responsibility to make certain it doesn't wind up in a landfill.

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Why Obama is (So Far) No Liberal Reagan

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Obama will probably win this election, but only by the skin of his teeth. Let's face it: Obama is not the transformational candidate we liberals had hoped for.

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War and Politics at the Age Four and 11/12ths

Pete Cenedella | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

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Today, I want to look fondly back at a moment before the bruising ugliness of this general election; indeed, a moment before even the tensions between...

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An Expat's View of the Conventions: End of Summer in America and Back "Home" to Europe

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

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I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?

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Picking On A Girl

Rob Stafford | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics

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If Palin gets some traction, it's simple. We let Joe Biden and Hillary bust her up. Will some people accuse us of being bullies, of picking on a girl? -- yes, they will. I call those folks "Republicans."

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McCain gets the Gold!

Christopher Ingram | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

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GOP nominee's pick is the best since Kennedy picked LBJ - but for totally different reasons Slap me silly and call me stupid, but John McCain is on h...

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Meeting Adjourned

Michelle Bart | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

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Today the nation adjourned the final meeting with Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, who died earlier this month of a massive brain aneurysm.

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Watching Clinton's Speech With 18 Million Voices

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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The site of the Clinton Watch Party had once been a cemetery, a fact surely unconsidered by the event's planners, and unintentionally symbolic for a group of supporters who wanted to see their candidate's chances resurrected,

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Clinton Team Convention Poster Strategy Tamped Down Dissent

Dawn Teo | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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Hillary's 40-person whip team, which spent the week tamping down on dissent within her delegate ranks, had a brilliant plan to thwart dissent in the convention hall Tuesday night.

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Hillary Clinton: Were You Only In It For Me?

Michelle Bart | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Words cannot express how I'm feeling after watching Hillary Clinton carry her speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. What an example...

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Hillary Takes It to McCain on Health Care Today

Art Levine | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Maybe the Democrats, including Hillary's own most ardent supporters, will find winning health care reform a good enough reason to unite behind Obama.

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PUMA -- Endangered Species

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.

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Gloria Allred, Clinton Delegate, Rallies Support; Reports Being "Gagged" At Delegation Meeting

John Tomasic | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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"If you were at the California delegation this morning, you saw me with a gag in my mouth. That is because I was not permitted to either speak to the California delegation, even though I am a Hillary delegate, nor were the Hillary delegates permitted to have a meeting with each other."

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