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June 21, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
Texas Congressman and maverick GOP presidential contender Ron Paul is the debate stage wild card in the Republican push for the presidency. In debate after debate, after McCain and Giuliani and Romney . . .
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April 23, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
In light of last week's decision by the court to uphold a ban on an abortion procedure, On Point is looking today at the new High Court headed by Chief Justice John Roberts. The court is lined up to . . .
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July 23, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
The network evening news broadcast is about half a century old. And going back at least to the early days of cable news in the 1980s, media watchers have said those stately old news anchors and their . . .
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April 10, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
States are jamming their primaries forward. Today, On Point looked at the whole-new campaign dynamic and the light-speed presidential election calendar.
On Point spoke to Ron Brownstein, columnist, . . .
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April 23, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy last week, On Point is taking a closer look today at how schools should balance privacy, public safety, and the rights of students and parents.
Here . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Since 1987, when the FCC dropped the Fairness Doctrine – the federal policy that mandated balanced viewpoints on the airwaves – there has been an explosion of conservative talk radio. . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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April 30, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
Australian press baron Rupert Murdoch has been a busy man on the American media landscape, launching Fox News and the Weekly Standard, and scooping up the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, TV stations, . . .
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June 07, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
In the new fireworks between the US and Russia, the rhetoric is straight out of the Cold War. The US wants to put a missile defense system on Russia's doorstep. Moscow is howling.
Vladimir Putin is . . .
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June 14, 2007 11:00 AM EDT --
The bombing and shooting and dying isn't over. And political leaders are still talking about the necessity of success. But in high-level strategic circles, there is plenty of talk that America has . . .
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July 09, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Right behind the big three Republican presidential candidates in Iowa polls stands a man who ought to fill the bill for GOP conservatives.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is proud to say he’s . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Here's the reality of the race for the GOP's '08 presidential nomination. Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll but still draws just 13 percent in national polls. McCain is on the ropes. Fred . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:44 AM EDT --
In the heart of Baghdad's Green Zone, US and Iranian diplomats posed for the cameras yesterday. It was the biggest break in nearly three decades in the deep freeze between Washington and Tehran. But . . .
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June 27, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
The Washington Post's executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. announced this week that he'll step down in September after 17 years at the helm.
Starting as a summer intern in 1964, Downie has seen . . .
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April 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
On Point is looking today at the campaign of John McCain and how it's unfolding with McCain's decreasing popularity due to his staunch support of the war in Iraq. The guests on the show were Allen . . .
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June 28, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
In the last few weeks, we've seen the biggest immigration reform package in decades -- the so-called "grand compromise" over who will be American -- live and die and live again in the US . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
Twelve billion dollars a month are being spent now on the war in Iraq, and lots of blood, too. It is THE topic on Capitol Hill right now with a giant defense spending bill being debated on the Senate . . .
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August 09, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Joe Biden of Delaware has served in the US Senate through seven presidencies and three wars. He was there as the Vietnam War wrapped, there for the Iran hostage crisis, for the fall of the Berlin Wall . . .
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August 09, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on liberal who worries a lot about community in America. He made his name in the 1990s with his finding that hordes of Americans were, . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
There were shocking scenes this week, in a world that is hard to shock. Palestinians were tearing Gaza from the West Bank in an overnight civil war between Hamas and Fatah, as the US looks on in dismay. . . .
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