Tag: politics
group name: npr
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June 21, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
Texas Congressman and maverick GOP presidential contender Ron Paul is the debate stage wild card in the Republican push for the presidency. In debate after debate, after McCain and Giuliani and Romney . . .
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January 07, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
On the road to New Hampshire and Election '08, a sharp economic populism is in the air in a way it hasn't been since long before Ronald Reagan. The idea that the rich are getting richer unfairly . . .
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April 29, 2008 10:36 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, went low profile after clips of his fiery sermons hit the news media in March.
But if some Obama supporters hoped Rev. Wright might go away, they . . .
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February 07, 2007 09:21 AM EST --
I was literally applauding as I read this article in the NY Times online yesterday. As a black person who has been praised for as long as I can remember for "speaking well" and "being . . .
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June 09, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Essayist and high-toned pundit George Will has been commenting on American life, American politics and American conservatism for more than three decades now.
He was there before and when American conservatism . . .
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June 19, 2007 10:06 AM EDT --
In defining his War on Terror, President Bush has not been shy about World War II analogies. Today's enemies, he has said, are "successors to Fascists, to Nazis."
But there is at least one . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Since 1987, when the FCC dropped the Fairness Doctrine – the federal policy that mandated balanced viewpoints on the airwaves – there has been an explosion of conservative talk radio. . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
When "No Child Left Behind" became the law of the land for American public schools in 2001, George W. Bush was riding high and the idea of holding schools accountable for student performance . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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June 28, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
So, Palestinians now stand divided, by force. In Gaza, Hamas rules. In the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah are in charge.
And the view of the Palestinian crisis bubbling out of quarters in Washington is: Hamas . . .
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July 09, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Right behind the big three Republican presidential candidates in Iowa polls stands a man who ought to fill the bill for GOP conservatives.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is proud to say he’s . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Here's the reality of the race for the GOP's '08 presidential nomination. Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll but still draws just 13 percent in national polls. McCain is on the ropes. Fred . . .
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February 26, 2008 10:08 AM EST --
Hillary Clinton may yet make history as the first woman president of the United States. But right now, the polls are leaning toward the first African-American male.
On the campaign trail, Clinton . . .
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May 12, 2008 11:05 AM EDT --
In his and our world, Bill Moyers is a journalistic force of nature. For decades, he has been narrating and documenting and opining, with increasing ferocity, on American life and politics.
If you're . . .
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July 30, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Last year, Nancy Pelosi broke the marble ceiling when she became the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
There wasn’t much time to rest on her laurels. She had one portrait snapped, . . .
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April 25, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
Three years ago Eleanor Clift was caring for her husband, journalist Tom Brazaitis, as he entered the final stages of cancer. At that very moment, the nation's attention was captivated by another, . . .
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June 28, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
In the last few weeks, we've seen the biggest immigration reform package in decades -- the so-called "grand compromise" over who will be American -- live and die and live again in the US . . .
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August 09, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Joe Biden of Delaware has served in the US Senate through seven presidencies and three wars. He was there as the Vietnam War wrapped, there for the Iran hostage crisis, for the fall of the Berlin Wall . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:20 AM EDT --
Across the country today, American schools and educators are still trying to figure out the full implications of last week's big Supreme Court ruling on race and school assignments.
A half century . . .
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July 10, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
After a six-day siege, Pakistani troops stormed in today, guns blazing, Islamic militants fighting and falling - no where else but at the fabled Red Mosque in the very heart of Pakistan's capital city. . . .
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