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January 07, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
On the road to New Hampshire and Election '08, a sharp economic populism is in the air in a way it hasn't been since long before Ronald Reagan. The idea that the rich are getting richer unfairly . . .
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May 10, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
In the summer of 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon to crush Hezbollah –and failed badly. Within weeks, they formed a commission to find out who failed and why. They’ve just issued their . . .
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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 29, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, went low profile after clips of his fiery sermons hit the news media in March.
But if some Obama supporters hoped Rev. Wright might go away, they . . .
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June 09, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Essayist and high-toned pundit George Will has been commenting on American life, American politics and American conservatism for more than three decades now.
He was there before and when American conservatism . . .
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May 22, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
Hillary Clinton does not quit. She toughed out the rough end of her husband's presidency, and dived in herself to become a popular and respected US Senator from New York.
Now, she's built a campaign . . .
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May 12, 2008 11:05 AM EDT --
In his and our world, Bill Moyers is a journalistic force of nature. For decades, he has been narrating and documenting and opining, with increasing ferocity, on American life and politics.
If you're . . .
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July 30, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Last year, Nancy Pelosi broke the marble ceiling when she became the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
There wasn’t much time to rest on her laurels. She had one portrait snapped, . . .
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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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June 06, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
There was lightning in the skies of New Hampshire last night, and a crackle in the hall where ten Republican contenders for the White House lined up to debate for the nation on CNN.
Unanimity was not . . .
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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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February 26, 2008 10:08 AM EST --
Hillary Clinton may yet make history as the first woman president of the United States. But right now, the polls are leaning toward the first African-American male.
On the campaign trail, Clinton . . .
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May 16, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
Paul Wolfowitz was the intellectual star of the neo-conservative crew that drove the country to war with Iraq. Today, he's the World Bank president who used his position to land his girlfriend a sweetheart . . .
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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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July 19, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
When "No Child Left Behind" became the law of the land for American public schools in 2001, George W. Bush was riding high and the idea of holding schools accountable for student performance . . .
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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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