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Iran pumps iron in the Middle East
The Christian Science Monitor - In the great Shiite-Sunni Muslim clash that cleaves the Middle East, score one for Iran's radical Shiite theocracy. Through its militant proxy, Hezbollah, Iran has shown it can be the real power in Lebanon. And it took only a few days to do it.
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The Christian Science Monitor - In the great Shiite-Sunni Muslim clash that cleaves the Middle East, score one for Iran's radical Shiite theocracy. Through its militant proxy, Hezbollah, Iran has shown it can be the real power in Lebanon. And it took only a few days to do it.
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Junk Science: McCain's Embarrassing Speech
McCain's speech, in which he lauded wind power as a 'predictable source of energy,' demonstrates how little he knows about the science of global warming.
Fox News – May 15, 2008 07:57 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
McCain's speech, in which he lauded wind power as a 'predictable source of energy,' demonstrates how little he knows about the science of global warming.
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Cindy McCain Flaunts Her Privilege
Joe Conason - Double standards are endemic in American journalism.
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Joe Conason - Double standards are endemic in American journalism.
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'Black and Bluestein'
Larry Elder - I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I thought, a Reagan Republican.
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Larry Elder - I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I thought, a Reagan Republican.
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Angry voters
USATODAY.com - Republicans were already on red alert after they lost "safe" GOP congressional seats to Democrats in Illinois in March and Louisiana earlier this month. But Tuesday's win by Democrat Travis Childers in a solidly Republican district in north Mississippi was devastating. The party spent $1.3 million, flew in Vice President Cheney and still lost by eight points.
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USATODAY.com - Republicans were already on red alert after they lost "safe" GOP congressional seats to Democrats in Illinois in March and Louisiana earlier this month. But Tuesday's win by Democrat Travis Childers in a solidly Republican district in north Mississippi was devastating. The party spent $1.3 million, flew in Vice President Cheney and still lost by eight points.
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Common Ground
USATODAY.com - Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot. They co-wrote the book Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
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USATODAY.com - Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot. They co-wrote the book Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
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The Threatened Polar Bear
INTERIOR SECRETARY Dirk Kempthorne held true to the letter of the law in the Endangered Species Act and announced yesterday that the polar bear will be listed as a "threatened" species. Its habitat -- Arctic sea ice -- is disappearing because of global warming. This is the most significant acknowledgment yet by the Bush administration of the impact of climate change. But this good news for the bear is a potential regulatory nightmare that Mr. Kempthorne tried to avoid.
Washington Post – May 15, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
INTERIOR SECRETARY Dirk Kempthorne held true to the letter of the law in the Endangered Species Act and announced yesterday that the polar bear will be listed as a "threatened" species. Its habitat -- Arctic sea ice -- is disappearing because of global warming. This is the most significant acknowledgment yet by the Bush administration of the impact of climate change. But this good news for the bear is a potential regulatory nightmare that Mr. Kempthorne tried to avoid.
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Mr. Uribe's Send-Off
WHEN COLOMBIA'S democratically elected Congress approved a plan by President Ãlvaro Uribe in 2005 to demobilize right-wing paramilitary groups and bring their top leaders to justice, human rights groups and some congressional Democrats in the United States declared themselves outraged. Though the paramilitaries were a principal source of the violence and drug-trafficking that have plagued Colombia for decades -- and the demobilization of tens of thousands of lawless gunmen could be a breakthrough in the effort to restore order -- the American critics said Mr. Uribe was extending overly generous terms to the top leaders. In a 2006 letter to Mr. Uribe, Human Rights Watch said its No. 1 objection to the plan was that it "could allow paramilitary commanders to avoid spending any time in prison."
Washington Post – May 15, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
WHEN COLOMBIA'S democratically elected Congress approved a plan by President Ãlvaro Uribe in 2005 to demobilize right-wing paramilitary groups and bring their top leaders to justice, human rights groups and some congressional Democrats in the United States declared themselves outraged. Though the paramilitaries were a principal source of the violence and drug-trafficking that have plagued Colombia for decades -- and the demobilization of tens of thousands of lawless gunmen could be a breakthrough in the effort to restore order -- the American critics said Mr. Uribe was extending overly generous terms to the top leaders. In a 2006 letter to Mr. Uribe, Human Rights Watch said its No. 1 objection to the plan was that it "could allow paramilitary commanders to avoid spending any time in prison."
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Weak on Child Abuse
A 2-YEAR-OLD Baltimore girl died last year after swallowing methadone, and Maryland child welfare officials publicly owned up to their failings. They rightly said that shining a light on their handling of the case, with all its tragic shortcomings, would lead to remedies that just might save the next Bryanna Harris. It's troubling, then, that Maryland's law governing the release of information in child abuse and neglect cases is one of the worst in the country.
Washington Post – May 15, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
A 2-YEAR-OLD Baltimore girl died last year after swallowing methadone, and Maryland child welfare officials publicly owned up to their failings. They rightly said that shining a light on their handling of the case, with all its tragic shortcomings, would lead to remedies that just might save the next Bryanna Harris. It's troubling, then, that Maryland's law governing the release of information in child abuse and neglect cases is one of the worst in the country.
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Fallon for Congress
The Nation - The Nation -- Co-written and researched by Dinelle Lucchesi.
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The Nation - The Nation -- Co-written and researched by Dinelle Lucchesi.
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