boston.com - 12/29/2008
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The "decisive year" for which Gorbachev called two decades ago may now be here -- for our side.
therazor.org - 12/26/2008
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UPDATE: Voted Watcher of Weasels Council Winner 12/26/2008
- I am humbled by the honor. Scott Kirwin...
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Obama as Gorbachev?
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... ] James Carroll hopes Obama does for America what Gorby did for the Soviet Union and/or Russia or ...something. It's convoluted. But whatever he means by the comparison, I find it deeply offensive. ...
Globe's Carroll Dreams Obama Can Match Gorbachev's 'Greatness'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... reason, because we have foolishly credited bad reasons in the past. But now the nation lacks even that. As our President demonstrated last week, we have become a people who wage unending war -- killing and maiming our young ones and theirs -- without being remotely able to say why." In between, he declared: "The American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes."
The American Empire Project's bio of Carroll.
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