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Steve Clemons: Biden Gets China

Whether Iraq’s democratic-appearing government survives or not, the person who did more than any other behind the scenes to broker the deals and to play communications envoy between factions of Iraq’s fractured political order was Joe Biden. Read more: Thomas Donilon , US-Asia Policy , China-US Strategic and Ecnonomic Dialogue , Hillary Clinton , Timothy Geithner , Joe Biden , Tom Donilon , China , Us-China Policy , Barack Obama , Kurt Campbell , Politics News Continue reading

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Mark Juddery: The 7 Most Overrated Time Magazine Persons of the Year

It’s that time again, when we start to ponder that age-old question: who will be Time magazine’s Person of the Year? Read more: Al Gore , Beatles , Rudy Giuliani , William Westmoreland , George W Bush , Adolf Hitler , Media , Time Magazine , Barack Obama , Osama Bin Laden , Olympics , Pierre Laval , Stalin , Us Presidents , Slidepollajax , Great Depression , Media News Continue reading

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Are Midwestern Campuses Turning A Blind Eye To Rape?

Last week, a Chicago Tribune article reported startlingly low arrest and conviction rates in cases of sexual assaults across a selection of six Illinois and Indiana universities and colleges. Sexual health advocates expressed frustration, but some local campuses continue to defend the way they handle sex crimes internally. “It’s the same thing, again and again,” one victim told the Tribune , which found that less than 10 percent of the reported sex crimes occurring since 2005 at the schools resulted in either an arrest or conviction Continue reading

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Shawna Vercher: It’s Sexist to Support Palin for Her Anatomy

Recently Amy Siskind, President of The New Agenda, published an article pleading with America to see The Undefeated , a film that celebrates Sarah Palin. To not “get to know her”, states Siskind, is sexist. Continue reading

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Pam Spritzer: A Job for Everyone: Democracy in America

Fourteen million Americans were unemployed in May, many since last year. Millions more work full-time yet live in poverty, often juggling multiple jobs to make ends meet. Continue reading

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Rebecca Sive: What Does Sarah Palin Want? It Looks Like She Has What She Wants

For the last day or so, male political pundits have been obsessing about what Sarah Palin wants with her bus tour. Continue reading

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For May 27, 2011

When the week began, political pundits were all a-twitter with the news that Mitch Daniels — the guy who every conservative with a newspaper column had gravitated to for some reason as the person who would “save” the GOP primary field — was not going to run in the 2012 primary. Probably because he thought David Brooks was creepy. But also because he didn’t want his wife to be the focus of opposition researchers Continue reading

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Cliff Schecter: I Don’t Think "Life" Means What the Right Thinks It Means

**The Right: Very Respectful Of Human Rights Yesterday, I pulled up to a drive-through ATM and sitting in front of me in the line was a car with a license plate that simply stated, “Choose Life.” Who can argue with that? I support life, don’t you? The problem, of course, is the relationship between that phrase and the U.S Continue reading

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Dr. Philip Neches: Birth Certificate Reveals Obama’s Secret

The subject of President Obama’s birth certificate occasioned spilling far too much ink, both real and virtual. So what have we learned? I leave the politics to others. Continue reading

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Steve Clemons: Thoughts on George Mitchell Resignation

I have thought for some time now that the Obama administration’s experiment with George Mitchell had failed. Continue reading

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