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themoderatevoice.com - 9 hours ago
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City Pages, an alternative weekly here in Minnesota
has done a write-up about Michele Bachmann, who represents
the Sixth District . Many people already know her from her rants on Fox News and other national media outlets, but the City Pages story starts from the beginning, when she unseated a ...
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“Michele Bachmann:Going Crazy”
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By most measures, Hezbollah’s Man in Iran Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour should be a hero — yet he now faces some severe critics and staunch enemies in Iran. Why?
In a must-read piece on RealClearWorld, Meir Javedanfar, RCW’s Iranian-Israeli Middle East analyst and a regular ...
World
Iran
Hezbollah
International Monetary Fund
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
What is the significance of President Obama’s habit of bowing to foreign royalty? Continuing with our coverage of China’s reaction to president Obama’s Asia tour, Diguo Zhunjiang for China’s state-controlled Global Geographic Times asserts that while this results in ...
World
Barack Obama
China
Global Warming
Afghanistan
North Korea
George W. Bush
It’s not his opinions or the fact he’s a boot-licker. It’s not his sexism or that he switches positions depending on who looks like the winner at the moment.
THIS is why Chris Matthews drives me crazy. (I wanted to embed the video, but I couldn’t.)
I mean, what is ...
Other
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews just put that question to Judd Gregg on Hardball . Gregg’s answer:
Of course she is. She’s been governor of a large state. She’s run for vice-president. Of course Sarah Palin is qualified to be president.
White House
Sarah Palin
Chris Matthews
Judd Gregg
themoderatevoice.com - 15 hours ago
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Could we Win if We Had to Fight
World War II Today? by Rick Moran The debate
over “The Greatest Generation” and whether the way America is today could duplicate their stunning achievements in winning two wars and fighting through a depression while maintaining unity has been ...
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Could We Win if We Had to Fight World War II Today? ...
themoderatevoice.com - 15 hours ago
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We’ve reached a point where my friend Ed
Morrissey and I must come to a parting of
the ways on the current health care debate, though we’ve seen eye to eye on most portions of it up until now. Tomorrow, the Senate will face a procedural vote to open debate on their version of the ...
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Why Republicans Should Vote Yes Tomorrow
themoderatevoice.com - 17 hours ago
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So many tasty morsels so many are uncovering
. (All that and not one link to Andrew
Sullivan . I’ll spend Saturday enjoying his finds .) One topic Sarah touches on that’s relevant to my interest in food is her love of meat. From page 18: I love meat. I eat pork chops, ...
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Sarah Palin Loves Meat
themoderatevoice.com - 9 hours ago
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timely. appropriate, right
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On the Military Draft and True Patriotism
themoderatevoice.com - 18 hours ago
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Now that she has smooched you-know-who this week,
the talented Ms. Winfrey is ready to end the
talk show that made her a billionaire and start the next phase of her life as a media mogul with a cable channel aptly named OWN. Like the would-be VP but for much longer and in a far different way, ...
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Oprah’s Kissoff
The story behind the much-heralded Associated Press fact check was detailed in a weekly internal newsletter to the company’s 4,000 employees. TPMDC snagged a copy :
Mike Oreskes, a senior managing editor, offers staffers a description of the AP’s own work tracking down and fact ...
White House
Sarah Palin
themoderatevoice.com - 19 hours ago
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I told you so 7 months ago in
my TMV post dated 3/19/09 and titled “It’s Time
to Throw Geithner under the Bus.” Considering the growing chorus from the left, right and middle now calling for his termination or resignation, I re-read my original post. As always, I was prescient, accurate, and ...
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Geithner’s Welcome Expired Long Ago
Is Rep. Virginia Foxx crazy? I don’t know, but she certainly says some crazy things. Consider a couple of things she said yesterday:
– “Actually, the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this country.”
Maybe, if you go all the way back ...
Congress
Virginia Foxx
Republican National Committee
Guest post by J.F. Murphy
J.F. Murphy is a former Marine infantry officer and Iraq veteran who graduated from the U.S. Navy’s SERE program. He is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project .
After nearly two months of deliberation, some have criticized the Obama Administration ...
World
Afghanistan
International Monetary Fund
Pakistan
themoderatevoice.com - 21 hours ago
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T Can President Obama persuade China not to
be so dependent on growth, particularly trade-dependent growth? Likening
Beijing’s obsession with growth to a Chinese version of the ‘Berlin Wall,’ Feng Mengyun of China’s state-run Global Geographic Times expresses his ...
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Addiction to Growth is China’s ‘Berlin Wall’: Global ...
themoderatevoice.com - 21 hours ago
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Today’s New York Times featured two columns about
Tim Geithner. The one by Paul Krugman panned him
for his role in the A.I.G. bailout. The one by David Brooks praised him for his efforts saving the financial system. Both columns keyed off his testimony yesterday before a House panel. I ...
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Geithner Must Go
A sign of the times: New Zealand is now poised to become the latest country to enter the space rase, 3News reports:
New Zealand is about to enter the space race with a private venture which aims to cash in on the market for scientific research.
A Kiwi company has not only built its own ...
World
New Zealand
Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana), writing in CNN, says he plans to oppose raising the debt ceiling what the issue comes up for a vote next month. He’s unwilling to raise this ceiling, he writes, unless “Congress adopts a credible process to balance our books and eliminate the red ...
Congress
Evan Bayh
themoderatevoice.com - 24 hours ago
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Just when you thought it was safe to
step out of the ballot booth, the hotly contested
special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District simply will not die. The latest ripple in the story is that a computer virus reportedly infected a handful of machines in Hamilton County. ...
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Return of the Election Beast from NY-23
