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State Dinners And Their Odd Social Pairings (PHOTOS)

LIFE.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | Style

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Text and photos from LIFE.com, where you can check out more odd social pairings at state dinners. The state dinner dates back to 1874, when Ulysses...

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How Serious Is Our National Debt?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: China, Japan, National Debt, Gross Domestic Product, Economic Stimulus Package, Ronald Reagan, The Economist, Debt Percentage, Obama Administration, Congress, Obama, Gdp, Business News
Patrick Takahashi

The American debt as a percentage of GDP is at around 100%, which is expected to edge up to 101% in 2011, then begin to drop. However, Japan's debt as a percentage of GDP will go to 230%!

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Sarah Palin: Fooling None Of The People All Of The Time

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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Deepak Chopra

Palin's tactic of appealing to the worst impulses of the electorate has a long history in the Republican Party. Palin inherited the mean-spirited values of another politician with a gleaming smile: Reagan.

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Lessons from the Velvet Revolution

Stephen Zunes | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

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Stephen Zunes

These movements were largely led by democratic socialists who mobilized workers, church people, intellectuals, and others to face down the tanks with their bare hands.

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Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

We have yet to hear any pitch from Palin's supporters that elevates her above any other Republican in the current field of candidates. She's famous. And. Hmm. She's famous. That's it.

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The Audacity of Dopes

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Ian Gurvitz

No one did more damage to Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin. She was handed a national platform on which she could dazzle the country with her brilliance. And she winked, smirked, and crapped all over it.

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The Confidence Gap Between Democrats And Republicans

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Susan J. Demas

Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity. The message is always the same -- whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins.

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Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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John R. Bohrer

The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.

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1989 And the Fall of the Wall: Did Reagan Do It?

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Czeslaw Milosz, Charter 77, 1989, Ronald Reagan, Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, Plastic People of the Universe, Leszek Kolakowski, Jacek Kuron, East Germany, Andrei Sakharov, Imre Nagy, Lech Walesa, Aleksandr Dubcek, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Moscow Helsinki Group, Bronislaw Geremak, Yelena Bonner, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ddr, World News
Jesse Larner

Regan probably hastened the fall of the Wall by a few years, but it could have fallen without him. It could not however, have fallen without the sacrifices of those living under Soviet Communism.

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The Inevitable Fluke That Is Sarah Palin

William Bradley | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

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William Bradley

Five minutes into yesterday's Oprah extravaganza with Sarah Palin, I messaged Steve Schmidt, John McCain's presidential campaign manager: "So how did you know Bristol was pregnant before it was announced?"

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Health Care Reform Struggle Will Not End This Year

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.

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Obama in Asia: West Looks East After "The End of History"

Kishore Mahbubani | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Kishore Mahbubani

The loss of the West's moral authority is the exact opposite outcome that Western minds expected when they celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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The Mustache Movement

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

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Jerry Zezima

I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.

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Top-Secret Reagan Letters to Soviet Leaders Now Online

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Jason Saltoun-Ebin

As the letters show, Reagan and Gorbachev were instead discussing how to minimize the threat of nuclear war by first reducing and then eliminating all nuclear weapons.

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How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Susan J. Demas

When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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"Our Weapon Is Fear"

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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Tom Sullivan

Conservatives have resurrected "socialist" to smear anyone to the left of Genghis Khan as anti-American or a heretic.

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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When Will the U.S. and Russia Stop Acting Like It's Still the Cold War?

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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Russ Wellen

Unless nuclear states can shed the Cold War mentality once and for all, it's hard to be optimistic about the long-terms prospects for disarmament.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

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The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what...

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One Year Later: Gerald Ford Will Always Be President

James Pinkerton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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James Pinkerton

There's been no Rooseveltian realignment for Obama, just Clintonian regression. Perhaps the situation might have been different if he had focused on jobs rather than health care and global warming.

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Conservatives for Privacy, Where is the Left?

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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J. Bradley Jansen

The best way to keep us safe and free is eternal vigilance--no matter which party is in office. So, let's hold our friends on the left accountable when it's needed.

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Pop Quiz: Under Reagan, What Was Peak Unemployment, How Long Before It Began Declining?

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Paul Abrams

As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are already 14% lower than Reagan's 1981 tax cut.

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Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads"

The Nation | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mik...

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Reagan's Anti-Government Kool-Aid Has Poisoned Civil Public-Option Dialogue

Bill Mann | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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Bill Mann

The indignant, GOP, all-government-is-bad know-nothings have swallowed the Kool-Aid. And Ronald Reagan was the guy who dressed up as a giant pitcher and convinced them do it.

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