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What did Susan Rice know and when did she know it
By Bill Press
We haven't heard much about the "politics of personal destruction" since Bill Clinton. But if you thought the days of mean, personal, political attacks were over, just…
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The face of greed
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein came to Capitol Hill this week to call for cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. As Congress and the White House are negotiating a…
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The sad state of zealots with microphones
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
America, you are an idiot.
You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy, self-indulgent, envious, shallow and lazy.
The foregoing…
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Cuban Americans are many things, but few are conservatives
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés
Several of our friends expressed shock when they learned that President Obama had won some 48% of south Florida’s Cuban-American vote. One…
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Drop greatest and number one and feel proud
By Saul Landau
“We’re the Greatest! We’re number one!” - Kid Rock, screaming for Mitt Romney
Must we continue to brag about us being “The Greatest Country in the World”?
Imagine an…
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Time to end the war on drugs
By Katherine vanden Heuvel
From The Washington Post
With his final election behind him, and the final attack ads safely off the air, President Obama now returns to his regularly…
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Open letter to President Obama
By Michael Moore
Dear President Obama:
Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your second term as our president! The first…
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Trying for greatness
By Franklin Foer
From The New Republic
In his campaign boilerplate, President Obama would charmingly joke about how the presidency had grayed his hair. But as a memoirist with…
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Gross sues U.S., employer in Washington
By Tom Schoenberg
From Bloomberg News
Alan Gross, a U.S. contractor arrested and jailed in Cuba, accused the government and his employer of ignoring the dangers of his…
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‘Really crappy Cuba policy’
“You’re always talking about the international community. The international community has spoken here…”
Along the Malecon
Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee on Tuesday asked…
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