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Americans Are Not Oxymorons: Reflections On President Obama's Afghanistan Plans

John Brown | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Propaganda, Lawyers, Susan Brewer, Oxymorons, Public Diplomacy, Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson, Politics News
John Brown

Instead of the crude, obscenely packaged fabrications used by his predecessor to mislead us into the war in Iraq, Obama's tortuous deliberations on a military escalation in Afghanistan have been marked by doubts.

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News
Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Back and Forth on the Nobel Peace Prize

Michael Jones | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Illinois Combine, Barack Obama Tony Rezko, Woodrow Wilson, Mayor Daley, Obama Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Apartheid, Chicago News
Michael Jones

"Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, and now President Obama, got their awards for political reasons ... mostly a Scandinavian attempt to embarrass George Bush."

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Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Code, Blue Dog, Progressives, Ways and Means, Compromise, Reform, Charles Schumer, Howard Dean, Tripled Down, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, 60 Vote, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Nationwide, Public Option, States Rights, Democrat, Congress, Democrats, Barack Obama, Im in My Place, Nobel Prize, Schumer, Progressive, Mddotw, Put Her in Her Place, Health, Opt Out Plan, Blue Dogs, Americas Next Great Pundit, Healthcare, Senate, George Bush, President Obama, Teddy Roosevelt, Cloture, Senator, Dr Dean, Public Plan, State, Filibuster, Obama, Democratic, Charlie Rangel, Woodrow Wilson, Friday Talking Points, Bush, Dean, Republican, Pelosi, Double Down, Simpsons, Co-Op, Triple Down, Doubled Down, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Taxes, Trigger, Tax Laws, House, Nobel, Marge Simpson, Playboy, Nobel Peace Prize, Opt Out, Tenth Amendment, Rangel, Chris Weigant, Clockwork Orange, Afghanistan, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

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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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Why Obama Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Or the Olympics Rap

William Bradley | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson, Iran, Tony Blair, London, Teddy Roosevelt, Tokyo, Madrid, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, Al Gore, Olympic Games, Iraq, Israel, China, Cairo, Copenhagen, World News
William Bradley

Just as I never thought that Obama would win the Olympics for Chicago, it never occurred to me that he would win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

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

Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Gdansk, Theodore Roosevelt, Lech Walesa, Euro Dollar, Major League Baseball, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Mvp, Congo, Patrice Lamuba, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Japan, World News
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

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Alfred Nobel, Al Gore, Willy Brandt, Henry Kissinger, Russnow, Blackberry, Twitter, Iraq, Facebook, Woodrow Wilson, Cnn, Muslim, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Russnow, Iraq War, Jimmy Carter, Youtube, League of Nations, Afghanistan, Obama Nobel, Barack Obama Nobel, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, World News
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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Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

Howie Klein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Shangri-Las, Crystals, Ellie Greenwich, Sandy Pearlman, Billboard, Black Sabbath, Woodrow Wilson, Blue Oyster Cult, Vietnam War, Music, McGill University, Pavlov's Dog, Rolling Stones, Library of Congress, Clash, Hunter Thompson, National Recording Preservation Board, The Byds, Technology, Entertainment News
Howie Klein

Ellie Greenwich beat Pat Benatar to the punch with the pixie slut haircut. Signaling that feminine power source, the union of opposites.

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The "Loan Arrangers" Will Not Ride Again

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tarp, Theodore Roosevelt, New Deal, Woodrow Wilson, Barney Frank, Aig, Franklin Roosevelt, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Joseph Kennedy, Regulatory Reform, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Free Market, Wall Street Bonuses, Politics News
Rep. Barney Frank

We will prove that the best thing you can do for capitalism is to have rules that give investors the confidence to get back into the system, that protect the great majority of decent people from abuses.

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The Supreme Court: New Face, Old Arguments

Stanley Kutler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Republican Opposition, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayer, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Woodrow Wilson, Guantanamo Detainees, Antonin Scalia, Politics News
Stanley Kutler

Sotomayor has the "right" gender, ethnicity, and experience; nevertheless, we can expect the Republicans to mount an "ideological" opposition.

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Why We Can Never Do Enough for Mother's Day (No Really, We Can't)

Wendy Braitman | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Carnations, Unmarried Woman, Grafton West Virginia, Philadelphia, Anna-Jarvis, Mother's Day, Woodrow Wilson, Mothers, Living News
Wendy Braitman

With Mother's Day hours away, I would like to honor my beloved mother, by using the word mother in a sentence as often as possible.

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Zelizer's Book Corner: Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Wilson Administration, Mao Zedong, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Erez Manela, Woodrow Wilson, Media News
Julian E. Zelizer

Erez Manela's new book, The Wilsonian Moment, recounts how the Wilson administration undertook an enormous campaign to distribute speeches that the president made about self-determination.

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Tip #6 for Our 44th President: Listen to Your Mother-In-Law

Emily Main | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Saving, Barack Obama, Organic Gardens, First Ladies, Energy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Abigail Adams, Green Living, Laura Bush, 60 Minutes, Vegetables, Lou Hoover, Food, Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Gardening, Parents, Green News
Emily Main

In honor of these wise women, we've compiled a list of some of the nation's former First Ladies (and grandmothers and mothers-in-law) and their contributions to a better planet.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Growling and Kicking for Social Change

Gara LaMarche | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Change, Obama Change, Barack Obama, Community Activism, Woodrow Wilson, Politics News
Gara LaMarche

We need to not only tap the power, the knowledge, the wisdom of age; we need to do that in a way that works for older adults across all economic, social, racial and ethnic lines.

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Finally, Health Insurance 90 Years Late

Paul A. London | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Healthcare Reform, Social Insurance, Health, Woodrow Wilson, Red Scare, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Socialists, Business News
Paul A. London

Americans do not understand how close the country came to having universal health insurance nine decades ago or why it failed.

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Most Americans Are Not McCain-Palin Neocons

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: American Public, Public Opinion, Woodrow Wilson, Creel Commission, War Propaganda, Election Results, Manufacturing Consent, Politics News
Shirin Sadeghi

McCain-Palin have made it very clear that they believe most Americans to be unintelligent, uninformed, and downright gullible.

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Debate Takeaway: I'm Worried About McCain's Durability

Pam Atherton | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Age Concerns, Mental Issues, John McCain, Polio, Stroke, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, Cindy McCain, Alzheimer's, Presidential Debates, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sarah Palin, Debate, Mood Disorder, Home News
Pam Atherton

Watching the debate, I had the sudden understanding of what people have been saying about McCain. He's 72. The oldest man to run for president. There are some things we need to talk about.

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McCain's Maverick Left Eye and a History of Presidential Infirmity

Peter J Burns | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Concerns, Depression, Sickness, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, George Bush, Obesity, Fdr, Harry Truman, George Washington, John Kennedy, Calivn Coolidge, Sarah Palin, John Adams, Health Records, Roosevelt, Home News
Peter J Burns

William H. Taft suffered from a condition probably most relevant to modern Americans - hyper-obesity. He weighed in at over 400 lbs. This condition caused hypersomnolence - he'd fall asleep mid-conversation, sometimes with foreign heads of state.

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Real Homeland Security

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Mukasey Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Advisor, Homeland Security, Harry Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Patriot Act Civil Liberties, Ramsey Clark, Fdr, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

The next president should create a brand new position, which should become a permanent part of the Executive Branch in the future: a Civil Liberties Advisor.

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How Tim Russert Got His Start

Martin Nolan | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Josh Brolin, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Hugh Carey, NBC News, Tim Russert, Mario Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Woodrow Wilson, Chris Matthews, Patrick Buchanan, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Dick Cheney, Buffalo, Maureen Orth, Boston College, The West Wing, Lawrence O'Donnell, George Stephanopoulos, William S. WhiteWilliam Safire, Adali Stevens Joseph Kraft, David Brinley, Walter Lippmann, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Lyndon Johnson, Larry Grossman, Clayton Fritchey, David Burke, Media News
Martin Nolan

For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."

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Say It Ain't So, Paul: Even the Great Krugman Is Lying about Florida

Frank Dwyer | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1912 Election, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Hillary Clinton, Florida Primary, Paul Krugman Barack Obama, Politics News
Frank Dwyer

For Krugman to keep saying that the voters of Florida voted "in good faith" is a lie. Were they not informed that the Democratic Party was not going to count their votes?

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