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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, World News

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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'Tis The Season To Replace Love With Material Possessions

Lee Camp | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Norah O'Donnell, George W. Bush, Comedy News

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State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, Kennedy, Ulysses Grant, Let's Bring Back, Ronald Reagan, President Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Obama, State Dinner, George Washington, White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, White House History, Style, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Obama, Lesley M. M. Blume, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Etiquette, Jackie Kennedy, Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, American Cuisine, Style News

It's fascinating to see how presentation and palates have evolved over the years, and how historical context and presidential personality all influence this facet of American showmanship. The Kennedys tout the virtues of aspic, the Franklin Roosevelts scandalized the polite world with an entrée, and George Washington gave new meaning to the phrase "no frills."

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Iraq War Inquiry Begins In Britain: Tony Blair Will Be Witness

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Uk Military, Uk, George Bush, White House, Michael Howard, Wmd, Britain, US Military, 10 Downing Street, mi5, George W. Bush, London, Barack Obama, Peter Ricketts, Foreign Policy, Gordon Brown, Iraq War, Sir John Chilcot, Downing Street, Nato, Baghdad, Iraq, Dossier, World News

LONDON � An inquiry investigating Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administr...

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Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Hank Paulson, Certified Financial Consultant, Goldman Sachs, Dr. Lawrence Summers, George W. Bush, Progressives, Obama Economic Team, Lawrence Summers, Arianna Huffington, K Street, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street Bonuses, Lottery Winners, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington Real Estate, McNay Settlement Group, K Street Lobbyists, Republican National Committee, Charlie Rose, Richmond Kentucky, Double Digit Unemployment, Washington DC, Democratic National Committee, Clu, Dr. Alan Greenspan, Change We Can Believe In, Million Dollar Round Table, Big Money, Henry Paulson, Faculty Lounge, Structured Setlements, Alan Greenspan, Huffington Post, Small Business, President Obama, Sherrod Brown, Obama Administration, Main Street, Jobs, Depressions, Harvard, Ohio, Financial Crisis, Mark Twain, American College, Personal Finance, Msfs, Recessions, Chfc, Economic Crisis, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Kentucky, Don McNay, Economic Despair, Chartered LIfe Underwriter, Wall Street, Vanderbilt University, Mike and the Mechanics, Warren Buffett, Eastern Kentucky University, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Partisanship, Estate Tax, Business News

Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.

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RIP Compassionate Conservatism

Will Marshall | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Senate, Federal Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, George W. Bush, Gop Health Care, Gop, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, David Walker, Health Care, Republican Party, Joseph Cao, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News

In taking a purely obstructionist stance, the GOP has evinced scant empathy for tens of millions of fellow Americans who lack basic protection against illness or injury. So much for compassionate conservatism.

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More Republican Lies and Deception Over Cancer Screening

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cervical Cancer, President Obama, Mammography, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Shakira, Breast Cancer Screenings, Preventive Service Task Force, Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Pap Smnear, George W Bush, Sen. Tom Coburn, Breat Cancer, Politics News

It's irresponsible for Republicans to label two new cancer-screening recommendations as partisan-based and illustrative of the sort of "rationing" they claim reform will bring.

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Quakers and Shakers: Giuliani and Paterson Unlikely Bedfellows in the Axis of Anxiety

Adam Hanft | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Rudy Giuliani, David Paterson, Terrorism, George W. Bush, September 11th, New York City, Eric Holder, New York News

Tough-guy Rudy Giuliani and touchy-feely David Paterson are in unlikely and violent agreement: making Manhattan Ground Zero for the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial is a very bad idea.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Restoration, Bush Doctrine, John F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Public Policy Polling, 1961, Kennedy, Boston, 1960, Ted Widmer, The Death of Conservatism, Democratic Party, 2012, Change, 2010, 2008, New Frontier, George W. Bush, Jfk, Republican Party, William v. Shannon, 1984, Jack Kennedy, John Winthrop, Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts, Democrats, Charles Blow, Barack Obama, Tom Jensen, The New Frontier, Ark of the Liberties, Republicans, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News

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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The Inevitable Fluke That Is Sarah Palin

William Bradley | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Oprah Winfrey, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Neo-Confederate, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Hugh Hewitt, Charlie Crist, Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Birther, Tim Pawlenty, Joe Lieberman, Manchurian Candidate, Hillary Clinton, Far Right, Tea Party, Creationism, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Chairman Mao, Katie Couric, Media News

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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President Obama's Entrepreneurial Mindset

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Hawaii, Al Gore, Small Business, Entrepreneurial Time System, Toronto, Small Town, 1976 Election, George W. Bush, Single Mothers, President Obama, Entrepreneurs, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, David and Goliath, The Audacity to Win, Senators, Ellen, Political Organizing, Larry King, Lexington KY, Richmond Ky, John Kerry, William Jennings Bryan, Xerox, Steven Jobs, 2008 Campaign, The Strategic Coach, American College, Ibm, Wall Street, African Americans, Google, McNay Settlement Group, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Impossible Goals, Microsoft, Washington Insiders, Kentucky, Don McNay, Bill Gates, 2008 Election, Southern Politics, David Plouffe, Entrepreneurial, Main Street, Structured Settlements, Ross Perot, Vanderbilt University, Jay Leno, George Wallace, Dan Sullivan, Oprah, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Tyra Banks, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, David Lettterman, Nssta, Business News

I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.

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The Importance of 'Democracy Promotion'

J. Brian Atwood | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy Promotion, Afghanistan, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, World News

The overly enthusiastic embrace of "democracy promotion" by the Bush administration could have smothered that phrase for years to come. But fortunately, Obama has resisted temptations to abandon it.

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Lower Manhattan is the Proper Place to Try Khalid Sheikh Mohmammed

Julie Menin | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mitch McConnell, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Waterboarding, New York, September 11th, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, New York News

it should indeed be a jury of New Yorkers, the community who was most adversely impacted by the horrific events of September 11th, who decide Mohammed's fate.

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Medicare Paid $47 Billion In Suspect Claims, According To HHS

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Health Care Bill, Elederly, Poverty, Bush, Dhhs, Health and Human Services, Obama, Cost, White House, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Old, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Poor, Hhs, Medicare Fraud Cost, Medicare, Medicare Fraud, Health Care, Home News

WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...

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Civilian Trials for Terrorists Highlight Differences Between Presidents

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Islam, Law, Muslim, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Terrorism, Bin Laden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Politics News

For Obama, the ability to showcase our justice system in a case involving one of the world's most reviled accused terrorists represents an important opportunity to define America before history and the world.

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Bush: 'I Went Against My Free-Market Instincts'

George's Bottom Line | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Economic Policy, George Stephanopoulos, George W. Bush, Free-Market, Southern Methodist University, Politics News

"I went against my free-market instincts." That's what former President Bush said today in explaining why he signed off on the bailout for Wall Stree...

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Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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You Are Not a "Great American," Sean Hannity

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Chris Christie, Bob Mcdonnell, President Obama, Sean Hannity, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Economic Recovery, Democratic Party, The Great Depression, Media News

If Sean Hannity truly wants to be the "great American" he claims to be, he can start by being truthful to his listeners and by not rooting for his supposedly beloved America to fail under the current leadership.

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On Bush's Watch, U.S. Suffered Its "Electronic Pearl Harbor"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Cybersecurity, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwar, Media News

Sunday's 60 Minutes featured a pretty terrifying report on the potential threat the United States faces from cyberterrorism. It's territory that the ...

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The War on Terrorism Ends; and the Winner is... China

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Apec, Asean, Greater Middle East, South Korea, Condoleeza Rice, George W Bush, Obama, China, Japan, World News

The American neglect of the Asia-Pacific region and its policy concerns has not only alienated its friends in the region. It has also hurt long term U.S. economic and strategic interests.

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Obama Worse Than Bush On Endangered Species Protection

The Examiner | Jean Williams | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ken Salazar, Obama Green Initiatives, Obama Wildlife Preservation, Ken Salazar Wildlife Preservation, George W. Bush, Obama Oil Drilling, President Obama, Ken Salazar Oil Drilling, Obama Endangered-Species Protection, Ken Salazar Endangered Species Protection, Endangered Species, Obama Environmental Policy, Politics News

Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar's appointment by President Obama has been controversial from the beginning. His record on environmental and wildlif...

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Why Negative Thinking Makes the World a Better Place

Christina Patterson | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Paul McKenna, Subprime Mortgages, Economic Crisis, George W Bush, Postitive Thinking, Negative Thinking, Tony Blairm George Bush, Living News

Some years ago, I went on a "positivity" course. My sister had died, my father had died, and I'd had cancer, and a broken heart, and I wasn't, quite frankly, feeling that cheerful.

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Good Reason for Muslims to Fear Ft. Hood Backlash

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood, Conservatives, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Anti-Muslim Bias, Oklahoma City Bombing, September 11th, Nidal Malik Hasan Shooting, Politics News

The pack of shrill rightist bloggers and talk radio chatterers jumped all over the shooting and gleefully fanned anti-Muslim passions. It didn't take much to get the anti-Muslim hate juices flowing.

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Mike Britt, Former Colorado GOP Chair, Payed National Republican Party For Voter Information: Report

9News | Adam Schrager | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Dick Wadhams, Mike Britt, Josh Penry, Colorado Republican Party Bribery, Colorado GOP, George W. Bush, Republicans, Denver News

KUSA -The former executive director of the Colorado Republican Party authorized the downloading of a massive e-mail list from the Republican National ...

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