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By Lindsay Beyerstein, MediaWire blogger It's finally official: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be Barack Obama's Secretary of State. Some observers thought Clinton was a curious pick because she made a point of differentiating her foreign policy views...
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One aspect of society I always keep an eye out for is the role and place of women where ever I may be traveling at the time. As I noted about Singapore, women there seem to have the best lot in all of East Asia, even Japan and South Korea. As for Vietnam,...
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Good grief, Newt Gingrich is "teaching" history again. On the Bill O'Reilly show the other day, Gingrich came up with his biggest lie about history yet. He said, "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on...
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To the general public, President-elect Obama's impending choice of the next Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) probably lacks the sense of urgency or drama of other cabinet selections. But for the regulated community and...
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Obama-watchers ought to spend some time studying the works of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, because the President-elect has said that Niebuhr has profoundly influenced him. Lately, I have been reading Niebuhr to discover what lessons he could offer to...
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Mr. Terrorist, Don't be Doing That Recently, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al- Zawahi, felt the need to distinguish President Elect Barack Obama from Malcom X, concluding that the new President is not representative of the militant black community, and thus...
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NEW ORLEANS--In a Monday blog post, WashPost's Al Kamen reports that the incoming Obama administration will bring back James Lee Witt, who successfully whipped FEMA into shape under Bill Clinton, to...whip FEMA back into shape. Obama, according to Kamen's...
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The day after the Presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown for an NBC Sports television interview. Brown is not only the most accomplished football player ever to live, but he's also regarded by one biographer as the most socially significant...
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Summoning the spirit of optimism that has always defined us, determined to move in a new direction, Barack Obama has brought together an all-star team to jumpstart the economy, create 2.5 million jobs, lay the groundwork for long term economic growth with...
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In an exchange this weekend with Tom Brokaw, Joe Lieberman said he regretted some of what he'd said during the campaign. Brokaw said, "I hear the word regret, but not the word apologize." Lieberman responded that he's "going forward," adding, "You can...
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When the Bush administration -- yeah, they're still in office, and they like it when we're not paying attention -- first trotted out its marketing campaign for the Iraq war, the three main criteria for attacking that country stuck in my mind. Hey, I...
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What's more than a little infuriating about Washington is that being right is never rewarded. If you're a pundit who was wrong on the Iraq War, you will always have a seat at the table. God forbid you were right about not going into Iraq, well then you...
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The only thing worse than seeing Sarah Palin in front of a slaughterhouse. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive.