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The Telegraph just released its top 20 American liberals and conservatives. Not to give away the ending, but a certain frontrunner tops the conservative list....
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London's police force broke health and safety laws over the shooting dead of a Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber, a jury finds. Your reaction?
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Reading standards have barely improved since the 1950s according to a study. What is the best way to teach reading?
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New Winthrop /ETV poll in South Carolina (Oct 7-28, 522 likely GOP primary voters, MoE 4.29%, and 534 likely Democratic primary voters, MoE 4.24%). The big news in the poll comes on the Republican side, where Romney, Giuliani and Thompson...
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A little bonus PM Line for you: Reid is reporting that Senator Obama was not among the 29 Senators who signed onto a letter to authored by Jim Webb of Virginia warning President Bush not to take military action against...
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Friday, November 02, 2007 Twelve years is a long time. It is the normal span to complete primary and secondary education, which can seem like a lifetime. Historically, at 12 years old, one arrives at the age of reckoning, the time for children to confront maturity and take on responsibility.
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Friday, November 02, 2007 The real story on Wall Street isn't that E. Stanley O'Neal, whose grandfather was born a slave, is being shoved out of the top job at Merrill Lynch, the gargantuan investment bank.
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Friday, November 02, 2007 Maybe if I had been drinking heavily. Maybe if I were suffering amnesia. Maybe if I'd had a lobotomy. Maybe, in other words, if my memory were impaired, I could accept the apologies for last week's FEMA-brand bovine excreta at face value.
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Friday, November 02, 2007 Some elections are defined by the gap between the rich and the poor. Others are defined by the gap between the left and the right.
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The pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, died today at 92. Here's the AP write-up: Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday....
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"Guts": More videos, including new Dodd and Edwards ads, in the Vlog....
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New SurveyUSA head-to-head numbers in Florida, which I've arranged in descending order by how well Republicans run against Clinton: Clinton 49 McCain 46 Clinton 49 Giuliani 45 Clinton 53 Thompson 43 Clinton 55 Romney 40 Clinton 55 Huckabee 39 Clinton...
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A bit of a firestorm has erupted over whether survival rates among those diagnosed with prostate cancer are greater in the United States than in Britain. Rick Klein started it with this article questioning the survival rates Rudy Giuliani cited...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 This holiday season, most Texans will invite over the grandparents, take the annual family photo and enjoy the blessing of a shared meal with family and friends.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 Remember the big school property tax cut you were supposed to get? Your local school district might be about to take it away.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 In today's political taxonomy, "progressives" are rebranded liberals dodging the damage they did to their old label.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 The narrative being spun by the White House — and seemingly adopted by the national media — is that the Bush administration learned from its mistakes after Hurricane Katrina and did a much better job responding to the San Diego wildfires. Not so fast.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 'I am not ordering you to attack; I am ordering you to die," Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is quoted as telling his troops in the 1915 battle of Gallipoli, in which British and French forces were prevented from taking Istanbul with heavy casualties.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 There's a lot of talk about the differences between how San Diego and New Orleans handled their respective natural disasters. So far, Californians are winning hands down.
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Sudan merely wants more time to let the janjaweed militias it backs in Darfur finish off what remains of the region's non-Arab population.
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Senators with a conscience that can be shocked should insist that President Bush meets a higher standard than the current nomination.
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If the Internet isn't at the root of newspapers' woes, what is? I nominate not the computer screen, but TV.
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Much of what we know about the Middle East conflict is framed by zealots and violence.
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The 20th-century international consensus on a two-state solution is fading away.
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The Chinese military presence in Tibet is more sensed than seen.
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