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New Presidential Limousine

Steve Parker | Posted 08.05.2008 | Style

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Whoever wins the upcoming election will apparently ride to the White House in a brand-new whip, with rear-wheel (or even all-wheel) drive and a marine-cooled diesel engine.

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Remembering About Forgetting

Sandy Goodman | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

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Memory is big these days. Especially for those of us getting on in years. I'm celebrating my 75th birthday later this month. I don't know which I'm mo...

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Why Obama Should Announce Key Cabinet Members When He Announces His VP Choice

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

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Putting Obama at the center of a team of rivals, all of them familiar, even venerable, pieces of political furniture would dampen the he's-not-one-of-us factor that is still his greatest danger.

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A Note to Our Next President: Do Something Visionary

Barry Rosenberg | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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If there's a lesson to be learned by this week's 90th anniversary of airmail, it is that the next president of the United States has every opportunity to be another Kennedy, Roosevelt or Lincoln.

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August 28th -- A Good Date For Historic Speeches

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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August 28th will be the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Unless Hillary Clinton soon acquires the ability to perform miracles, the nominee giving the acceptance speech is going to be Barack Obama.

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Obama of Chicago: Carl Sandburg Should Have There Been!

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics

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Like old Abe, the lean, young Senator, announced in Springfield; and promises, in soaring rhetoric, to hold us to our ideals.

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OK, Hillary, Let's Talk About Plagiarism

James Heffernan | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

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Anyone who thinks that words have played no part in the building of this nation -- that they were not just as vital as all the blood shed by its soldiers -- simply does not know its history.

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A Lesson on Presidents' Day From Lincoln's Second Inaugural

Al Eisele | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living

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I'll spend this Presidents Day thinking about what it means to govern during a time of war, and what the duty of the living is to the dead.

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Washington, Lincoln, Bush

Marty Kaplan | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics

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Can George Bush really imagine that his contempt for checks and balances, and for the Bill of Rights, will one day be compared favorably to Lincoln's boldness in saving the Union?

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Ron Paul is Scary, But Those That Cheer Him Are Even Scarier

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

The scariest thing about Paul is that millions seem to agree that his off beat views, especially on race matters, make sense.

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Hybrid Cars On Parade At L.A. Auto Show

Wall Street Journal | Mike Spector | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business

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Touting a hydrogen-powered Chevrolet, a Lincoln with a super-efficient gasoline engine and a hybrid Dodge, car makers plan to use the Los Angeles auto...

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