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The Nobel Peace Prize: Calling a Truce, at Least for a Day

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, Nobel Committee, Obama Nobel, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

President Barack Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. Already? After determining that we are still in 2009 and I hadn't pulled a Rip Van Winkle, I then wondered if I was reading the title correctly.

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Bill Clinton Must Wonder -- Where's Mine?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Carol Felsenthal

Not even as towering an ego as Clinton expected to win it while a sitting president, as Wilson and Roosevelt had, but not even they came close to winning it before they had spent a year in the White House.

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Is a Huge Stretch

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wilson, Israel and Palestinians, Middle East, Jimmy Carter, Theordore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

I have to think that privately Obama scratched his head and wondered, why me?

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Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Mike Hegedus

Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Jimmy Carter and the Race Card

Lance Simmens | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Lance Simmens

Racism is not the sole explanation for the hateful rhetoric that has been leveled at the President, it may not even be the driving rationalization, but to suggest that it plays little or no role is both wishful thinking and naïve.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Jimmy Carter's Price Tag

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Carter has always subscribed to 'Underdogma,' a knee-jerk reaction to champion the cause of any underdog, however immoral. To him, poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness.

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Who's Leading the DADT Debate?

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, House of Representatives, Congress, Joint Forces Quarterly, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral Mike Mullen, Obama Pentagon, Afghanistan War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, H.R. 1283, Senate, Dadt, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

it is one thing to give the Pentagon considerable weight and another thing altogether to let it dictate the timing and terms of the debate, and the final decision.

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Politics, in Ebony and Ivory

Brian Palmer | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

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Brian Palmer

It's a commonplace that Social Security is the third rail of politics. For the first black president, however, it's clearly race.

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Why I'm Grateful for Joe Wilson and the Fury of Racists

Keli Goff | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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Keli Goff

Some people's racism has been brought to the fore because the America they thought they knew is changing to an America in which a Black man can get elected president and their very own children applaud.

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Obama, America and Race

Robert Slayton | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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Robert Slayton

Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.

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Jason Linkins

Lanny Davis Wants Everyone To Be Nicer To Each Other

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

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Professional Beltway bile-sack Lanny Davis, in between shilling for Central American coup d'etats and helping Whole Foods CEO John Mackey achieve subject-verb agreement in anti-health care reform op-eds, has found the time for a new hobby: teaching Americans to be nicer to each other!

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The Carter Statement

Hermene Hartman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Andrew Manis, Health Care Reform, Racism, Right Wing, Media, Post Racial America, Politics News
Hermene Hartman

There is no comfortable time to discuss America's racial issues. There is no right time. There will always be something else more pressing. America needs to look its racism in the mirror.

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How Race Turns up the Volume on Incivility: A Scientifically Informed Post-Mortem to a Controversy

Drew Westen | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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Drew Westen

What's been missing from our national discourse on "is it race or isn't it?" is the distinction psychologists and neuroscientists have made for over two decades between conscious and unconscious prejudice.

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Is Racism To Blame For The Angry Discourse In America?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

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Dr. Judith Rich

The question remains: How do we deal with the mounting anger in America before it's too late and we have another national tragedy on our hands and souls? Are we mature enough as a country to have an honest discourse on the roots of anger in America today?

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Obama at the UN: Will He Sound the Trumpet for Human Rights?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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Rabbi Abraham Cooper

What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.

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Bill Clinton: Carter Wrong On Obama And Racism

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton says he doesn't think racism is a principal factor in resistance to President Barack Obama's plan for...

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Carter: Chavez Becoming Authoritarian

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he is disappointed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and concerned he is increasin...

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I Just Hate Black People

Richard Zombeck | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Richard Zombeck

Maybe the initial motives of a few are social and political but plenty of racist whack-jobs are jumping on the crazy train for their own message.

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Head in the Sand?

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Clarence B. Jones

On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.

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Sever the Link Between Populism and Racism

Scott Kurashige | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: History, David Brooks, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Media News
Scott Kurashige

David Brooks is a very clever and gifted writer. But his latest piece repudiating the role of race in the vitriolic backlash against Obama just doesn't pass muster.

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Racism, John McCain and Other Republicans

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Birthers, John McCain, Teabaggers, Racial Bias, N-Word, Police, Police Brutality, Immigration, Attitude Arrests, Racist, Ethnic Slurs, Arab, Joe Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Discrimination, Republicans, Political Correctness, Adolf Hitler, Health Care, Bigotry, Politics News
Norm Stamper

In 1976, 30 of my 31 police officers confessed to on-the-job use of the most vile, invective, racist language you can imagine. How do we confront the barefaced bigotry we see today?

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Anger in America

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Beck, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, 9/12 Tea Party March, Tea Parties, Politics News
Joe Peyronnin

Politicians are too focused on scoring short term political points and securing corporate donations for their campaign. No wonder everyone is so angry.

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