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themoderatevoice.com - 11 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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themoderatevoice.com - 16 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 - 16 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 - 18 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 - 19 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
themoderatevoice.com - 20 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
themoderatevoice.com - 22 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 - 22 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
themoderatevoice.com - 25 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
themoderatevoice.com - 33 hours ago
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The great American composer Cole Porter also knew
how to perform and sell his own songs. Here
he is singing one of his clever “list lyric” songs, “You’re the Top,” composed for the 1934 Broadway show “Anything Goes.” This You Tube has a great ...
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The Great Performers: Cole Porter Sings “You’re the Top”
themoderatevoice.com - 35 hours ago
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Republican House member (from North Carolina) Virginia Foxx,
it is pretty safe to say, has never met
a fact she could not challenge. This morning, Rep. Foxx launched an attack on what she calls “revisionist history” about which political party should get the credit for passing ...
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Republican House Member Misrepresents History On Civil ...
themoderatevoice.com - 40 hours ago
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Ezra Klein reads over 2,000 pages of legislative
language so you don’t have to. His conclusion: This
bill is a “ grand bargain ” that achieves impressive levels of coverage while still cutting costs: This is how health-care reform controls costs. It is, at its base, a ...
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You Give Me Expanded Coverage; I’ll Give You Cost Control
themoderatevoice.com - 41 hours ago
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Warren began at George Washington at 17. At
19, she married mathematician Jim Warren, who worked at
the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and finished her degree at the University of Houston. They divorced in 1978. Her second husband, Bruce Mann, is Harvard’s Carl F. Schipper Professor of Law ...
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Elizabeth Warren
themoderatevoice.com - 42 hours ago
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According to emerging news reports Rudy Guliani has
decided not to run for Governor of New York
but will instead run for the US Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Spokespeople for Rudy have neither confirmed or denied these reports, simply saying that he will ...
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Guliani To Run For Senate ?
themoderatevoice.com - 43 hours ago
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A study of 200 students published in the
British Journal of Criminology found that many wrongly blame
the effects of a “bad night out” on date-rape drugs when, in fact, they just drank too much. Some are in “active denial” and fears of date-rape drugs are so pervasive ...
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The Fake Date-Rape Epidemic
