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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)
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"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)
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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)
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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)
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To hear it from critics on the left and right, the Bush administration and legislative leaders were in such a rush to pass a "$700 billion bailout for Wall Street" that they failed to consider much simpler, cheaper, common sense approaches. In fact, all of...(more)
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself. Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written...(more)
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Michael Gerson ["Nominees in Need of Ideas," op-ed, Sept. 24] discussed President Bush's response to the financial crisis and said that he and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had "assumed the mantle of Franklin D. Roosevelt." Praising the president for merely attempting to clean...(more)
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David Cronin: An alarming number of women in poor countries die during childbirth. A fraction of the money spent on bailing out banks could prevent their deaths
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Students of today's financial crisis would do well to look back at the bubbles and the economic innovation of the past, writes Lisa Jardine.
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US correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg reviews the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin
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THE FIRST human-relations complaint I filed was in New York in 1964, when I suspected that I had been denied a job because of my religion. I couldn't prove it, but I made a complaint to open a file on the company. That, I reasoned, might...(more)
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