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Does Ft. Hood Have a Meaning?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0000

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CBS & NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:14:00 +0000

Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood ...

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Charles Krauthammer on the realignment myth of 2008

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:30:00 +0000

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The Myth of '08, Demolished -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:48:14 +0000

S ure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great ...

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Opt-in divides Schumer and Emanuel

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:26:47 +0000

Architects of the strategy are on opposite sides of the party's health-reform argument.

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Report: Ethics Panel Will Clear Rangel And Others In Caribbean Trip Probe

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:09:24 +0000

The House ethics committee will likely clear five Democratic members of Congress including Charlie Rangel (D-NY) of wrongdoing in an investigation into whether a privately financed trip to the Caribbean broke House travel rules, Roll Call reports this morning. The case, which involves a ...

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ABC: Iran Caught Sending Record Arms Shipment to Hezbollah

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:32:25 +0000

Uniquely among Wednesday’s broadcast network evening newscasts, ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson informed viewers that the Israeli navy earlier in the day intercepted a record quantity of weapons supplied by Iran destined for Hezbollah, in violation of a United Nations resolution forbidding ...

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Interview with Charles Krauthammer: 'Obama Is Average'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:53:52 +0000

'Obama Is Average' In a SPIEGEL interview, Charles Krauthammer, the leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals, discusses Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the president's failures and the state of the United Nations and the international community. SPIEGEL: Mr. Krauthammer, did the ...

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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:10:14 +0000

Event Confronting Legal Injustice/Imagining Legal Justice Friday, November 06, 2009 Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall Harvard Law School Event Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Public Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and ...

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The High Drama Behind Reid's Public Option Decision

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:46:13 +0000

Today, everyone's officially on the same page. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and his leadership team, and the White House all stand behind the Senate health care bill, which, as we learned this week , includes a public option. But the days leading up to Reid's big Monday announcement were ...

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Can Openly Gay Politician Charles Pugh Save Detroit?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:24:27 +0000

Charles Pugh has a great personal story and lots of charm, but some wonder whether the former TV news reporter has enough substance to match his style

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Vitamin D –A Cure For Cancer-ABC News Reports The Truth

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:02:30 +0000

It is refreshing to watch the news on ABC News with Charles Gibson soon to be replaced by Dianne Sawyer on the evening news hour. But the refreshing part has more to do with their choices of how to present the news about significant alternatives to breast cancer than pharmaceutical drugs that ...

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Does Charles Johnson Hate America?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:35:24 +0000

Thanks to William Teach at Stop the ACLU we learn that Chuck has named Doug Hoffman of the NY23 as the "Glenn Beck candidate", apparently for the unforgiveable sin (in Johnson's faith tradition) of endorsing Beck's Nine Principles, 12 Values:1....

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Senator Charles E. Schumer

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:33 +0000

Printer-friendly Version FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 29, 2009 PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS SCHUMER BILL TO EASE VOTING PROCESS FOR MILITARY, OVERSEAS VOTERS New Law Places New Requirements on States To Mail Out Ballots To Troops In Time to Give them 45 Days to Return Their Ballots Also ...

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Charles Johnson Attacks Doug Hoffman as 'Glenn Beck Candidate'

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:35:24 +0000

It's long been established by now that Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has completed his Andrew Sullivan transmogrification, but this tidbit today is too much to resist. Johnson's been attacking Michelle Malkin all week - taking issue with Malkin's (accurate) description of Dede ...

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Reid's choice an opt-out

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:50:17 +0000

My colleague Glenn Thrush has some deets on Reid's afternoon announcement: Senate Majority Leader will announce this afternoon that he plans to push ahead with a public option vote that includes an opt-out provision for states even though he's currently short several votes for passage, ...

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GOP Congressman Leading Fight Against Rangel Has His Own Ethics Woes

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:11:59 +0000

In a rich irony, the Republican congressman leading the fight to have Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) ousted as chair of the House's top tax-writing body turns out to have ethics problems of his own. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) had nearly $300,000 in unreported profits from oil stock sales in 2006 ...

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Three Envelopes -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:23 +0000

O ld Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble.” A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: “Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe.” A few ...

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Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Afghanistan 'drift'

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:06:34 +0000

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Revised Senate shield law could apply to freelancers, bloggers

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:37:39 +0000

The latest version of a Senate bill that would shield reporters from revealing their sources extends legal protections to freelance authors and bloggers, the bill's sponsors hinted Friday. That landmark change -- and a series of additional tweaks -- has earned Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and ...

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