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Hope Is a Four Letter Word

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Gay Rights, Hope, Jason Russell, Mitt Romney, Youtube, Left Wing, Kony 2012, Right Wing, Invisible Children, Barack Obama, Politics News

Hope always seems to be dashed when it hits reality. And so it has happened here with Kony 2012 (and with Obama). But the scope of this hope seems far different from in the past.

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When Will President Obama's Critics Admit They Were Wrong?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Religious Right, Politics, Left Wing, Ayn Rand, Republican Party, President Barack Obama, New Yorker, Ryan Lizza, Politics News

Anyone -- left or right -- who thinks Obama didn't "bring change" fast enough is living in a fact-free dreamland.

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The Fourth Way

Al Checchi | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Political Ideology, Leadership, Left Wing, Obama Leadership, Right Wing, Political Aristocracy, Non-Partisan, Barack Obama, Political Extremism, Declaration of Independence, Politics, Al Checchi, Bipartisanship, The Change Maker, Third Way, Obama Approval, Partisanship, Politics News

We need to develop a "Fourth Way," the American Way -- neither left, right, or bipartisan, but a non partisan common sense program for American civic renewal.

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Why Dems Should Go Left On Debt Committee

Larry Hirsch | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Left Wing, Democrats, Federal Budget, Congressional Debt Committee, Politics News

Fight fire with fire, Democrats. The right is not likely to compromise with you; they are not rational. Bring a good offense in and force them to meet you halfway.

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Beyond Stereotypes Of 'Conservative' And 'Liberal' Christianity

John Backman | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Scripture, Abortion, Left Wing, Culture Wars, Conservatives, Moderates, Liberals, Bible, Christianity, Right Wing, Evangelicals, Progressive Christianity, Conservative Christians, Religion News

Amid all the hostility among people of faith, many of us reserve our most potent venom for people of our own faith: those who disagree with us, that is.

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Faith in President Obama Is Being -- And Will Be -- Vindicated

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: President Obama Administration, Politics News, Left Wing, Religious Right, Republican Party, Politics News

President Barack Obama's critics -- left and right -- all have one thing in common: impatience laced with little-to-no sense of history.

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Why We Hate Going to the Dennis

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Researchers say that if your appellation is Dennis, you are more likely to become a dentist than a differently monikered individual. But I'm not so sure about this.

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Top Ten Signs Your Country Has Become a Democracy

James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rich People, Egypt, Trader Joe's, Lies, Consumerism, Sex, Right-Wing, Libya, Twitter, Democracy, Left-Wing, Facebook, Voting, Slidepollajax, Comedy News

At last, you have cheap crap you absolutely must have.

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Let's End Bi-Partisan Hatred by Changing the National Language to French

James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bi-Partisanship, Union-Busting, Unions, Right-Wing, Madison Wisconsin, French, French Language, Political Rhetoric, Governor Scott Walker, Left-Wing, Vitriol, Political Debate, Comedy News

Let's face it, once the language is absorbed into the culture, even if things do get ugly, doesn't merde sound nicer than the alternative?

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The Tea Party Man

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Gop, Right Wing, Left Wing, Rand Paul, Wall Street Journal, State Rights, Politics News

Rand Paul is a dangerous man. The thing is it's difficult to tell whether the Freshman Senator from Kentucky is more dangerous to the Left or the Right. Unarguably, he is dangerous to 'The System', for if nothing else he isn't screwing around.

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The New Vitriol-Free Cable News Network

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Politics, Debate, Left Wing, Tuscon Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, Political Rhetoric, Right Wing, Bipartisanship, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Vitriol, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Comedy News

8:00am - Turn Vitriol into Vitri-LOL! 12:00pm - Listening Politely But Not Actually Listening with Dr. Sanjay Gupta 5:00pm - Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann Swap Photos of Puppies in Baskets

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Charles Blow: The Left Needs To 'Get Over' Sarah Palin

The New York Times | Charles Blow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Left Wing, Charles Blow Palin, She Who Must Not Be Named, Palin Liberals, Sarah Palin, Right Wing, Left Wing Palin, Palin 2012, Politics News

This is it. This is the last time I'm going to write the name Sarah Palin until she does something truly newsworthy, like declare herself a candidate ...

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The Ex-President Inside Out and Always Centered, Revealed by His Grandson

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

Anyone who loves politics, history or even the pop culture of the Sixties will be startled by the new perspective on Ike afforded by the genuinely intimate glimpses here.

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Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Labor, Nuclear Weapons, Radio Conversation, Activism, Environment, Vietnam War, Left Wing, Christopher Lydon, Tea Party, Brown University, Anti-War, Mit, Politics News

Noam Chomsky, after all these years, retains the power to shock -- in the bright title of his new collection, Hopes and Prospects, and with what sound...

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Where Are We?

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Traffic, Juan Williams, Civil Rights, Right Wing, Left Wing, Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Social Programs, Kennedy, Politics News

I was deep in a bad traffic jam last night, wondering how many of us nowadays just work too damn hard -- lemmings -- barely having time to breathe -- ...

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The Second Coming

Kyle Shamberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media, Center Politics, American Politics, Left Wing, Right Wing Left Wing, Right Wing, America Media, Keith Olbermann, Politics News

The left has moved farther left, the right has moved farther right, and all lines of communication between the two sides have been cut off. This is a dangerous trend, and one that we must reverse.

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Where Miliband Meets Obama

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, David Miliband, Labour Party, Economic Crisis, Saul D Alinsky, Employment, Nick Clegg, Trade Unions, Obama, The Shift, Global Recession, Movement for Change, Shadow Foreign Minister, UK Politics, Ed Miliband, The Big Society, Left-Wing, David Cameron, World News

Obama and Miliband have this in common: despite their strong left-wing credentials, neither are wholly committed to the historical, ideological frameworks of their parties.

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VIDEO: Obama is Just a President

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enthusiasm Gap, Left-Wing, Barack Obama, Right-Wing, Politics News

Tyrannical super genius? Mythological fix-it-all? Who is Barack Obama!? I've discovered through exhaustive research America voted for and got a pres...

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The Blame Game

Adam Neiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Centrist, Left Wing, Blame Game, Bipartisanship, Robert Gibbs, Centrists, Professional Left, Politics News

I don't blame the "professional left" or Robert Gibbs or Obama or even Rahm Emmanuel. I blame me. I was one of the last pragmatic progressives that swung from Hillary to Obama.

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"Solutions for America" Offered

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Entitlements, White House, Left Wing, Congress, Social Security, Conservatives, Liberals, Solutions, Government Spending, Reform, Right Wing, Medicaid, Medicare, Barack Obama, Welfare, Politics News

Liberal critics will doubtlessly assail Heritage's latest 128 policy recommendations. But nobody should pretend that conservatives are devoid of good ideas. And America would be better by listening to them.

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8 Reasons Leftists Should be Pro-Israel

Alan Krinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Left, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics, Left Wing, Human Rights, Liberals, Israel, The Left, Blood Libel, Politics News

It is time for Leftists to become outraged not over Israel, but over the distortions and demonization of Israel on college campuses and at the United Nations and throughout the media and politics.

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Gordon Brown Offered Role on 30 Rock

Ruth Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Right Wing, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Labour, British Politics, Left Wing, General Election, Mrs Duffy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World News

Gordon Brown's '30 Rock' moment was sublime. Like Liz Lemon ranting while still on mic, Gordon smiled and told the woman he had just visited, to "take care," before clambering into his limo to complain, "She is just a sort of bigoted woman."

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Julia Gillard: Australia's First Female Prime Minister

Alex Rafalowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Left Wing, Labor, Julia Gillard Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Alp, World News

Thursday in Canberra, Julia Gillard emerged from a meeting of the parliamentary Labor Party ('the caucus') as the new leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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In Berlin, Cars Burn as Neighborhoods Change

David Dagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cars, Left Wing, Germany, Arson, Burning Cars, Berlin, Gentrification, World News

Fikret Arik had owned his BMW for less than two years when he watched it go up in flames last October in the courtyard of his apartment building. The blaze was no accident.

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Professors: Being Unbiased In Classroom 'Impossible'

Vermont Cynic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Professors Convservative Bias, Professors Liberal Bias, Vermont Bias, Right-Wing, Liberal Bias, Classroom Bias, Liberal Bias Classroom, The Northeast, Biased Professors, Uvm Bias, Left-Wing, Conservative Bias, Vermont Cynic, University of Vermont, College News

At a school known for both its liberal students and professors, some students question whether their tuition money is paying for the facts or a profes...

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