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Rep. John Murtha,True Populist: 1932-2010
A conservative Democrat from an increasingly Republican corner of Pennsylvania who nevertheless would become a hero on the Left for his criticism of George W. Bush’s Iraq war, Rep. John Murtha has died. He was 77. At his death serving in his 19...
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Harry Reid May Be In No Hurry To Finish Healthcare Reform, But Others Are
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may be in “no rush” to complete the work that sends a finished healthcare reform bill to President Obama to sign into law, but a growing number of his colleagues disagree. Some lawmakers not only see an o...
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Arrives in Haiti
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Haiti today with supplies and comforting words for the Haitian people: Meanwhile here in the U.S., former President Bill Clinton teamed up with George W. Bush at the request of President Obama to “...
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Senator Ted Kennedy, The Liberal Lion, Dead at 77
Senator Ted Kennedy, the Liberal Lion, has succumbed to his battle with brain cancer. He was 77. Kennedy, was the last son of ”one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure an...
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Franken Takes on Pickens
Good for Senator Al Franken for taking on T Boone Pickens when no one else at the Democratic Policy lunch would: Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gav...
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Don’t bet the farm the GOP is doomed
Has the GOP gone so far right-wing that the Democrats are in for good, or at least for many years? Bloggers, newspaper columnists and TV talking heads of the liberal persuasion seem to think so. I wouldn’t bet on it, and not because Obama is slippi...
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Kerry Statement on Release of Climate Impact Study
The White House issued a landmark climate report today that contained an assessment of “documented and expected” climate change impacts across the United States. “This report provides the concrete scientific information that says...
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Blame Bush Still Trendy
Rasmussen reported today that it’s still trendy to “Blame Bush” for the economic downturn that has plagued America since Bush’s reign. Sixty-two percent (62%) of U.S. voters agree with the president that the problems are due t...
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Settling In
Note to readers: I’ve been spending the past few days settling in from my move… again. I’m done now, with the moving that is. I’m settling in, in the Newburyport, Massachusetts area, where I grew up, after a little over 19 y...
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Must Read of the Day
Frank Rich on why the Obama administration must persue a “truth commission” on torture and the Bush administration: TO paraphrase Al Pacino in “Godfather III,” just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. A...
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The Dick Cheney Magical Mystery Media Tour
Dick Cheney has apparently been on a magical mystery media tour. He has sought out and been interviewed by more TV journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president. The topic is always the same. ...
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Here We Go Again
Social Security. Democrats who thought the Obama Administration wouldn’t go here – were wrong – apparently. Reportedly the “recession” is draining both Social Security and Medicare. This should be an interesting debate...
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Joe Breaks Up with Dick
Joe Lieberman broke up with Dick Cheney today… Watch it: Could it be that we may be welcoming Joe back into the fold one day?...
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Tragedy of War: Stressed Out Soldier Kills 4 and Self in Iraq (UPDATED)
Breaking News… NBC News reports that a U.S. soldier at Camp Liberty in Iraq “opened fire on fellow members of the military, killing four and wounding several others” before taking his own life. The attacker was described as a “...
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Obama a Hit at White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Video)
President Barack Obama was a hit at last night’s White House Correspondents’ dinner as made his “debut as the nation’s Stand-Up-in-Chief.” Obama delivered plenty of zingers and no one, including himself, was “safe...
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The Dalai Lama Stresses Ethics and Values at MIT
Last week, I drove down to Massachusetts so that I could attend the inaugural event at MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. My interest in attending the event was two fold: First – To hear the Dalai Lama speak...
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Did Condoleezza Rice cut history class in college?
Condoleezza Rice “would make a great middle school social studies teacher,” according to the late Don Askew, a retired Green Beret colonel and Middle East advisor to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. “Incompetent” was about the kinde...
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Labor’s Candidate is President this Workers Memorial Day
What a difference a year makes. When unions observed Workers Memorial Day on April 28, 2008, one of the most anti-union presidents in history was in the White House. As this Workers Memorial Day approaches, we have a new president who was elected wit...
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MoveOn’s New Ad Targets Cheney for Torture Investigation
Move On has a powerful new ad “calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the use of torture during the Bush administration and even raising the specter of targeting former Vice President Dick Cheney.” In related news, the WaP...
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DoJ Releases Four Secret Bush Memos Justifying Torture
On Thursday, the Department of Justice released “four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture.” The ACLU is calling for the DoJ to “appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush adm...
