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The Passengers Gossip as the Ship Sinks: An Open Letter

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

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Larisa Alexandrovna

A nation sinking cannot afford to play gotcha with something as unimportant as a vanilla sexual affair of a man not in any office of power and whose reputation is otherwise entirely solid.

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A Speech For Obama To Give... In Alaska

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Barack Obama made a campaign promise to visit the state of Alaska before the election. And what better time than right now to follow through on this promise?

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Bipartisan Scandal: Congress' Edifice Complex

John Fund | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

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John Fund

Why does Congress hand out money to name buildings, bridges -- everything under the sun -- after its own living members? Until the 1960s, people had to die before they were memorialized in granite.

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Obama Should Go North To Alaska

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Alaska is going to be very close this year. This stems from Republican office-holders apparently trying to take the "first in political corruption" award away from Louisiana.

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The Fakebook

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

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Aaron Greenspan

It seems like Ben Mezrich has perfect idea for a book. There's only one problem: so far, the book is being billed as a memoir, and I don't recall seeing him at Harvard in 2003, because he wasn't there.

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Lawmakers Exploiting Loopholes In New Ethics Law

New York Times | Robert PEar | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

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The optimistically named Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 was supposed to prevent lobbyists from securing undue influence by taking m...

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Global Warming Legislation: What Matters?

A. Siegel | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

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A. Siegel

Despite Joe Lockhart's and Barbara Boxer's enthusiasm, Lieberman-Warner is not the bill the nation (or the globe) requires.

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John McCain's Ethical Double Standards

Time | MICHAEL SCHERER | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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The U.S. senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real ...

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When You Do The Right Thing For The Wrong Reasons

moreintelligentlife.com | ALLISON SCHRAGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Some of the reasons why people give to charity may be consideed selfish. People give to increase their social standing, gain publicity, attend a fun p...

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Larry Craig Ethics Complaint Backfires On GOP

AP | Charles Babington | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Larry who? Now that scandal-tinged Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reneged on a pledge to resign this fall, his fellow Republican senators act as though t...

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