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My Conversation with Senator Jim Webb

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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I spoke with Webb about how he sees the challenges facing America and the future of the Democratic party.

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Deregulation Defrauds Americans

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business

For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.

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McCain's Divorce Strained Relationship With Reagans

Arizona Central | Richard A. Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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All the World's a Photo Op

Kiku Adatto | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Germany, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Citizen Journalism, Political Journalism, Reagen Publicity, Berlin Wall, Journalism, Politics News

When anyone with a cell phone is a potential member of the paparazzi, and anyone with a laptop a potential blogger, the contest for the control of images has never been more intense.

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Hush, Jesse, Hush

Trey Ellis | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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Look, I'm a fan of the reverend and was a volunteer for his presidential bid, but the more he talks the more I'm convinced that he is hopelessly old school.

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East Tennessee: Conservative and Green

Kayla Webley | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Al Gore, George Thacker, Ronald Reagan, Green, Conservation, Conservative, Mary Sue Garrison, Tennessee Valley Authority, Republican, East Tennessee, Spring City, Watts Bar, Environment, Randy Gentry, Tva, Home News

In Republican-dominated East Tennessee conservation and environmentalism are propelled less by Al Gore-style inconvenient truths than by biblically mandated calls to stewardship.

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Webb's VP "No Thanks" a Big Blow to Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Webb seemed to slam the door for good on any run at the vice presidency with his seemingly unequivocal "no thanks" to Obama. But politics being politics, a no never completely means no.

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It's 1968 Revisited, And It's Not The Liberals' Year

Tony Sachs | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.

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Obama Mulling Major Speech In Berlin During Europe Trip

Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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A German friend passed along the news Saturday that local sources in Berlin are confirming that the Obama campaign was in contact with city authoritie...

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Selling Out Sometimes? Okay. Selling Out All The Time? Not.

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Barack Obama dealt a bit in platitudes during the primaries so that he'd have less to disassociate himself from once he had the nomination in hand. But he held back on a few whoppers, too.

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Real Change Happens Offline

Sally Kohn | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizing, Community Values, Youth Vote, Election, Internet, Ronald Reagan, Millenials, Activism, Youth Activism, Politics News

Internet activism is individualistic: It's great for a sense of interconnectedness, but the Internet does not bind individuals in shared struggle the same as the face-to-face activism of the 1960s and '70s did.

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Contra Krugman: President Obama Won't be Another Clinton or another Reagan -- He Won't be Another Anybody

Harold Pollack | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media

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As Monday's column shows, when Krugman writes about Obama, the great economist seems to lose his moorings.

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Can the Republican Party Begin to Look Forward?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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The substance of any proposed economic reforms is less important, frankly, than McCain demonstrating that he can, in fact, understand the economy and discuss it in some depth.

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Anti-Bush Guantánamo Decision: U.S. Constitution Still On Life Support, Not Dead Yet!

Jackson Williams | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Sandra O'Connor, Constitution, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Kennedy, Guantanamo Bay, Swing Vote, Guantanamo, Home News

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that terror suspects held indefinitely by the U.S. government at Guantánamo Bay have constitutional rights in our co...

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A History Lesson For Tucker Carlson

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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Tucker Carlson, attempting to make a case for the retention of Jim Johnson as an official Obama Veep-Vetter, revealed a perplexing gap in his knowledg...

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How McCain Can Win the White House

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Latino Voters, Barack Obama, Presidential Race, Economy, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., Gop, Iraq, George Bush, John McCain, War on Terrorism, Politics News

The terrorism issue is still a McCain election trump card, but it's not enough. He must duck the economic mess Bush made by spinning the standard GOP line that his plan is pro-growth.

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McCain Not A Real Man, Says Limbaugh

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media

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What prompted Limbaugh to make a negative ruling on McCain's manhood was not that McCain bashed Bush, but that McCain dared to criticize "government" in his New Orleans speech earlier this week.

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Senator Clinton, Tear Down This Wall!

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

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We cannot afford the divisive wall constructed by Democrats against Democrats during Campaign 2008. It is your turn Hillary -- not for the presidency but to nevertheless decide what the measure of your legacy will be.

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America's 40 Years War at an End

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

RFK and Barack Obama may come to be seen as the bookends of the second American civil war, a war that has divided the nation and been a dominant force in our politics for four decades.

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The Case for Mental Health Screening of Candidates

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

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Though it's ludicrous to elect a presidential candidate who can't physically perform the job, it's worse to elect a candidate who can't mentally perform the job.

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Friday Talking Points [33] -- If It Quacks Like A Lame Duck...

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

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President George W. Bush, asked in a press conference why Republicans in the House and Senate are increasingly defying him, proven by the fact that do...

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Clinton and the Delegates: A Friendly Reply to Rachel Maddow

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Unpledged Delegates, Democratic Primary, Ronald Reagan, Rachel Maddow, Superdelegates, Jimmy Carter, Eli Manning, Hillary Clinton, Florida Primary, Michigan, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Politics News

If the Dems ran primaries on a winner-take-all basis like they once did, like the electoral vote is handed out in the general election, Clinton would have already won the nomination with over 2,000 delegates.

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The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Curse of Reaganism

Bryan D. Jones and Walter Williams | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Economy, Ronald Reagan, Opec, George W. Bush, Tax Cuts, Republican Propaganda, Reaganism, Republicans, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

America must come to realize that Reaganism is the philosophical underpinning of our woes. They are due to George W. Bush's mismanagement, but more fundamentally, by our slavish worship of flawed political philosophy.

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Obama-Webb 2008

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

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Obama can blunt the McCain-Rove plan of attack by shoring up his Commander-in-Chief credentials with a running mate whose military bona fides are beyond reproach.

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Casting Hillary: The Movie

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Gloria Grahame, Glenn Close, Screwball Comedy, Ronald Reagan, Jane Austen, Jane Fonda, Marie Windsor, Joe Klein, Katharine Hepburn, Wellesley College, Rosalind Russell, Movies, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Stanwyck, Carol Burnett, Marjorie Main, Turner Classic Movies, George and Laura Bush, Percy Kilbride, Film Noir, Bill Clinton, Carole Lombard, Celeste Hol, Emma Thompson, John Foster Dulles, Jean Harlow, Jane Greer, Audrey Totter, BNette Davis, Hollywood, Ellen Burstyn, Sally Field, Anne Baxter, Sigourney Weaver, Margaret Hamilton, Yale Law School, Meryl Streep, Joe Mankiewicz, Hillary Clinton, Lee Tracy, Davis Thomson, Entertainment News

Casting Hillary could become the biggest audience-participation show since moviegoers kibitzed Hollywood's choice for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.

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