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Political Labels 101: A Lesson for Republicans and Teabaggers

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anthony Weiner, You Lie, Public Option, Death Panels, George W. Bush, Olympia Snowe, Barack Obama, Susan Collins, Habermas, Pharmaceutical Companies, Socialist Party Usa, Health Insurance Companies, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Obama Nazi, Green Party, Obama Socialist, Health Care, Republicans, Teabaggers, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I acknowledge that a fair debate on health care can be had. But what I have no patience for is the ignorance being injected into our national consciousness, most recently by Sarah Palin.

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The Religious Decade: 2000 To 2010

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Slidehuge, Christopher Hitchens, Slidepoll, George W. Bush, 9/11, Pope Benedict XVI, Rick Warren, Faith, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, 2009, Osama Bin Laden, Religion, The Dalai Lama, Interfaith, Slideshow, Atheists, Gay Marriage, Living News
Paul Raushenbush

The following 10 stories show the breadth of religious actors and events and how deeply they affected the last 10 years of American and world history.

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Top Ten Civil Justice Triumphs Of the Decade!

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Supreme Court, Pharmaceutical Industry, Karl Rove, Bankruptcy, General Motors, Chrysler, Medical Malpractice, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Al Franken, George W. Bush, Wyeth, Washington State, Bill Frist, Arbitration, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are...

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Tora Bora Revealed: How Osama bin Laden Slipped From Our Grasp

The New Republic | Peter Bergen | Posted 12.22.2009 | World

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Bush Kerry, The New Republic, Osama Bin Laden Message, Bin Laden, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden Capture, Tora Bora, World News

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Save Social Security: 10 Questions for the Deficit Commission

Dave Johnson | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Defense, Budget, Taxes, Deficit, Social Security, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Medicare, Medicaid, Politics News
Dave Johnson

It is possible that there is going to be a "deficit commission" to reduce our country's budget deficits. I have some questions for them to ask to help get things started in the right direction.

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Obama Won't Push Equal Rights Law in the Right Direction

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Ronald Reagan, Doma, Rule of Law, George W. Bush, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Judge Alex Kozinski, California Same Sex Marriage, Gay, Defense of Marriage Act, Barack Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Rights, Richard Nixon, Federal Health Benefits, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.

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State of Love and Trust: Pearl Jam's Backspacer, Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize

Av Sinensky | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Michael Steele, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, George W. Bush, Jake Tapper, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Vertex, Politics News
Av Sinensky

Obama's best quality might be that he's not Bush, reviving optimism among those who had lost faith in the US. This sentiment is especially evident throughout Pearl Jam's latest album, Backspacer.

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Obama's Af-Pak War Should be Considered Illegal

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 12.21.2009 | World

Read More: United-Nations, Afghanistan, War on Terror, Barack Obama, Pakistan, George W. Bush, World News
Marjorie Cohn

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His escalation of the war may not have been what the Nobel committee envisioned.

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Why is My Party So Spineless?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sen. Harry Ried, President Obama, MSNBC's Hardball, George W. Bush, Rep. Tom DeLay, Health Care Reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Chris Matthews, Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

When will Democrats learn who they're battling? When will the party finally wise up and fight to the death for what it believes in?

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Think Again: How to Control Health Care Costs, Conservative Style

Eric Alterman | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, George W. Bush, Bush-Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug, Reform, Medicare, Wall Street Journal, Health Care, Politics News
Eric Alterman

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress. With Mickey Ehrlich It's a truism that conservatives support fiscal responsibility. Sure, the las...

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Copenhagen Blues: Obama's Weak Hand on Climate, and the California Option

William Bradley | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Copenhagen 2009, Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, India, Henry Waxman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, China, Barack Obama, California, John Kerry, Clean Air Act, United Nations, George W. Bush, European Union, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
William Bradley

Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.

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Tiger, Letterman, Madoff And More: Eight Lessons From The Decade's Biggest Flameouts

Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Letterman, Mark Sanford, Olympics, Balloon Boy, George W. Bush, Slidepoll, Mistress, Katrina, College Football, Scandal, Eliot Spitzer, Michael Phelps, Bestsellers, Wall Street, Madoff, James Frey, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Bernard Madoff, Iraq, Bernie Kerik, David Letterman, Books News
Robbie Vorhaus

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Lieberman, Republicans and Why Change Still Means Something

John R. Bohrer | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, 2004, Jim Demint, George W. Bush, Democrats, Democratic Party, Greg Sargent, 2012, 2010, Change, Michael Steele, Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Republicans, Republican Party, Health Care, Jim DeMint Waterloo, 2003, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

Lieberman is too egotistic (and from too blue of a state) to come out and admit that his sole purpose is to block reform from happening. But Michael Steele isn't.

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Bush E-mails Found: 22 Million Missing E-mails From George W. Bush White House Recovered

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Security Archive, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Bush E-Mails Found, Bush E-Mails, Bush White House E-Mails, George W. Bush, Computers, National Archives, Missing Bush Emails, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the ...

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Obama, Nobel, and Realpolitik

Kate Southwood | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ralph Bunche, Carter Center, ThorbjøRn Jagland, George W. Bush, Oslo, Jimmy Carter, Obama, Alfred Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq, Politics News
Kate Southwood

Is President Obama's lack of reference to Carter and Bunch surprising? Not really, considering his defense in Oslo of "just war."

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Anatomy of the Tea Party Movement: RecessRally.com

Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Odom, RecessRally.Com, Howard Rich, Patients First, Smart Girl Politics, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, American Liberty Tour, Let Freedom Ring, Teaparty, Recess Rally, American Liberty Alliance, Eric O'Keefe, Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, Colin Hanna, Michelle Mallkin, Americans for Prosperity, Amy Kremer, American Majority, Tax Day Tea Parties, RedState Blog, Tea Party Patriots, Netrightnation, Sam Adams Alliance, Americans for Limited Government, Politics News
Alex Brant-Zawadzki

RecessRally.com is a website developed by conservative website guru Eric Odom, where most of the August Tea Party protests during the August Congressional recess were organized.

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Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize

William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Cairo, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Taliban, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, World News
William Bradley

Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.

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Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Freedom-Tower-Construction, Kabul-Mayor, Rome, Maccabees, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Kabul, Story of Chanukah, Menorah, Afghanistan Corruption, Story-of-Chanukah, Antiochus, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Chanukah, Greece, Dead-or-Alive, Freedom Tower, Judah Maccabee, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan-Counterinsurgency, Orin Hatch, Orin Hatch Chanukah Song, Somalia, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hannukah, World News
Aaron Zelinsky

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

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While Dying, Editor & Publisher Showed Journalism How To Live

Will Bunch | Posted 12.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Military Suicides, Newspapers, Greg Mitchell, Ethics in Journalism, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Editor and Publisher, Climate Change, Washington Post, Journalism, Afghanistan War, Media News
Will Bunch

While I greatly mourn E&P's passing, I want to call attention to the splendor of its final years, when it died like a supernova, with a great burst of energy.

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Karl Rove On "O'Reilly" (VIDEO): Bush Was A Green Leader

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Bush Green Leadership, Karl Rove, Copenhagen 2009, Greenhouse Gases, George W. Bush, O'Reilly Factor, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove Bush, Global Warming, Green News

Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal columnist and former adviser to George W. Bush, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the Copenhagen climate confe...

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Poll: 35% Of Republicans Want To Impeach Obama

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Obama Impeachment Poll, Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Obama Impeachment, President Obama, Obama, President Bush, Obama Poll, Politics News

A new poll released by Public Policy Polling Wednesday introduced some surprising numbers. Thirty-five percent of Republicans said that they would s...

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Chris Hedges and the Left-Wing Attack on Liberals, Liberalism, and Barack Obama

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, Chris Hedges, Healthcare Reform, Liberals, Liberalism, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Michael J.W. Stickings

Yes, we liberals could and should be doing a lot more, and a lot better, but there's no reason we shouldn't be proud of our accomplishments, encouraged by our successes, and dedicated to our principles.

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No to Afghanistan? But Didn't We Say...?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Anti-War Democrats, George Bush, Obama and Afghanistan, Democrats and Iraq, George W. Bush, Obama and Iraq, Al-Qaeda, George Bush and Iraq, Democrats and Afghanistran, Obama and Pakistan, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Obama Administration, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Don't pretend that we haven't spent these past years shouting "Afghanistan! Afghanistan!" at every opportunity. And now that there's a president who's listened, who's reluctantly reached the very same conclusion, we say -- "Nevermind"?

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Iraq-Afghanistan Surge Analogies Mask Risks Of Afghanistan

New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Surge, Bush, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Native, Analysis, Anbar Awakening, Taliban, Iraq, Counterinsurgency, Foreign Fighters, Politics News

In fact, Iraq analogies have been flying back and forth so furiously in recent days that Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, the only holdover from ...

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 12.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Ari Fleischer, New York Jets, George W. Bush, Bcs, Boston Red Sox, Tiger Woods, New York News
Len Berman

There will never be another feel good football story out of Hofstra like wide receiver Wayne Chrebet overcoming all odds to make the Jets. Hofstra has eliminated football.

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