Tag: us politics
member name: Rory O'Connor
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March 05, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
I know it isn’t fashionable, but I feel sorry for Ann Coulter.
While it would no doubt prove eminently, if only momentarily, satisfying to denounce Coulter in terms familiar to her and similar to . . .
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January 28, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Remember back in the last century, when Toni Morrison playfully dubbed Bill Clinton our first "Black President," adding that Clinton "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent . . .
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January 03, 2008 10:44 AM EST --
Should Big Media decide for the rest of us who is -- and more importantly who is not -- a viable candidate for president? It's bad enough that thus far the reporting of this year's quadrennial . . .
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December 07, 2009 03:14 PM EST --
In my last post on President Obama’s Afghan escalation speech I noted,
“Anyone who believes (the troops) will leave in eighteen months is a fool.” I also referenced “a . . .
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March 08, 2007 10:21 AM EST --
’It was said a number of times, what are we doing with this guy here?” Denis Collins recalled his fellow jurors asking, as he spoke to the press immediately following the pronouncement that . . .
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September 20, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter – and a lasting lesson -- from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser . . .
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February 06, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
Remember way back in 2004— those halcyon days before thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars were poured down the ruinous . . .
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September 05, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
Only in America could a man who has been in office for decades run as an “outsider” against the entrenched interests in Washington
Only in America could a man who is a longtime Republican stalwart . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
"If your readers would take a few seconds to consider the things they enjoy by virtue of being in this country, the depth of their anger would dissipate," says John Moody. "We're not . . .
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February 06, 2008 11:17 AM EST --
The horse race just turned into a marathon. The big Super Tuesday surprise was that Super Tuesday really wasn't so super. And the winners so far are… the voters and the media.
Those are . . .
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June 12, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
The email alert read "Breaking from Newsmax.com," the conservative online news site that also publishes Newsmax Magazine. One item in particular caught my attention: Special: Will President Obama . . .
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October 13, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
“What a man sow shall he reap --
And you know that talk is cheap...”
- Bob Marley
John McCain was right in August when he called John Lewis one of the “wisest people” he knew.
So when Representative . . .
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July 20, 2006 03:59 PM EDT --
The Defense Department is seeking to create a powerful and sophisticated new weapon to help win the Global War on Terror -- a blog search engine. "We're out to make a machine that will analyze . . .
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April 02, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
Imagine making a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series for public television about baseball – but never mentioning Roberto Clemente. Or a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series for public television . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
As the war in Iraq marked its fifth anniversary, thirteen Iraqis were killed as dozens of mortar shells were fired at the "heavily fortified Green Zone" in what the New York Times called "one . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
In the fall of 2002 --- little more than a year after the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States set off a chain of events that soon toppled the brutal, misogynistic Taliban regime in Kabul, and . . .
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May 18, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
Introduction:
On October 12, 2000, the guided missile destroyer USS Cole pulled into harbor for refueling in Aden, Yemen. Less than two hours later, suicide bombers Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa . . .
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November 15, 2006 04:42 PM EST --
What if I told you that a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle operated with impunity within the United States for years before September 11? That despite being an ardent and avowed jihadi, he . . .
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July 12, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
Tired of the incessant, highly partisan bash fest that has poisoned America's political process and media ecology for most of this century?
Surprisingly, so are some of the most prominent practitioners . . .
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May 08, 2006 01:12 PM EDT --
Inquiring minds want to know - and so they should, by the end of this month, as complex pre-trial legal maneuvering in the perjury and obstruction of justice case against former White House official I. . . .
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