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Essay: Campaign Myth: Prevention as Cure-All

a shared story    17 hours 9 minutes ago
Why do both presidential candidates champion one of medical care’s most pervasive myths?   comments (0)  | report problem


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Station Break

a shared story    1 hour 9 minutes ago
Join Paul Farhi on Tuesday, Oct. 7, ata 1 p.m. ET for all things pop culture ("Saturday Night Live's" political sketches, sideline reporters, An American Carol, etc.) to a few things not (like his story on John McCain's first marriage). Part of this great country....(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
tags: break station


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The Reliable Source

a shared story    3 hours 9 minutes ago
As a Republican president prepares to exit, so does "Opus" cartoonist Berkeley Breathed -- again. (The GOP-bashing artist prefers to make his exits stage-left, thankyouverymuch.) The Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the '80s super-strip "Bloom County," which wrapped up shortly after President Reagan 's second term,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Too Small for a Big Crisis

a shared story    6 days 16 hours 9 minutes ago
America's economic crisis has become a political crisis -- with the second now compounding and exceeding the first. In the past few days we have witnessed something extraordinary: the revolt of ideology against authority, even against reality. The Bastille of establishment opinion has been stormed...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
tags: crisis small


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Love Is a Legacy That Will Never Die

a shared story    5 hours 9 minutes ago
"Granny -- what happens to you when you die?" The question comes from Brooks, my grandson. We are all sitting at the kitchen table: Granny and Brooks, age 7, and his cousins Sophia, 6, and Lila, 4. Their mothers (my two daughters) are upstairs, sleeping...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
tags: die legacy love


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Jasdev Singh Rai: The west should ask the Chinese regime about its supposedly Confucian ethics

a shared story    7 weeks 3 days 7 hours 9 minutes ago
Jasdev Singh Rai: Rather than lecturing the Chinese on human rights, the west should ask the regime about its supposedly Confucian ethics  comments (0)  | report problem


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Blasts from the Past

a shared story    9 hours 9 minutes ago
Just what America needs while the economy is crumbling: a campaign about William Ayers and Charles Keating. The McCain team rather clumsily signaled that it was going to go after Obama's "associations," meaning his limited interaction with a onetime terrorist and, if Sarah Palin gets...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
tags: blasts


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You may be left holding the bag

a shared story    2 weeks 8 hours 9 minutes ago
IT'S THE biggest government bailout package ever, some $700 billion to keep Wall Street and the American financial system afloat after a poorly regulated credit binge and a still-bursting housing bubble. Yet some four days after the massive federal intervention was proposed, only three things seem...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
tags: bag holding


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Black Sea Watershed

a shared story    8 weeks 1 day 14 hours 8 minutes ago
In weeks and years past, each of us has argued on this page that Moscow was pursuing a policy of regime change toward Georgia and its pro-Western, democratically elected president, Mikheil Saakashvili. We predicted that, absent strong and unified Western diplomatic involvement, we were headed...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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What 'Tropic Thunder' Thinks Is Funny

a shared story    8 weeks 1 day 14 hours 8 minutes ago
I've been told to keep my sense of humor about the film "Tropic Thunder," which opens this week. Despite my requests, I have not been given the chance to see the movie. But I've seen previews, read about it and read excerpts of the script....(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Dennis Kucinich files impeachment papers on Cheney. Woot!

an original story    75 weeks 5 days 3 hours 39 minutes ago
If you click the resource link I've set up in the box on the right, you can see all of the supporting documents. Kucinich was supposed to do this earlier -- but the Virginia Tech killings happened on the same day as he was going to file,...(more)  comments (5)  | report problem


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What Not to Do in a Financial Crisis: A Case Study of Japan

a shared story    2 weeks 6 days 17 hours 9 minutes ago
How do we avoid becoming another Japan? That question has prompted U.S. officials to move aggressively in recent weeks as they seek to save the American financial system while avoiding the kinds of regulatory pitfalls that plunged Japan into economic quicksand almost two decades ago....(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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