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nytimes.com — It is disheartening and disconcerting, at the very least, that here we are today - almost exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party - witnessing the departure of my good friend and fellow moderate Republican,... More Is there any room for moderates in the Republican Party?
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Loyalty or Stupidity
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huffingtonpost.com — The fiancee of a medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist said Monday she still loves him, but the band hired to perform at their scheduled August wedding said it's been told it won't be needed. Megan... More What do you think of the fiancee's support of Philip Markoff?
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Torture and the Problem of Constitutional Evil: The Way Forward tbn2.google.com
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Torture and the Problem of Constitutional Evil: The Way Forward
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huffingtonpost.com — A year ago, in a blog post at Balkinization.com, Mark Graber discussed John Yoo's role as an example of what he has called "the problem of Constitutional Evil." Graber's point is that the assumption that anything that is "evil" is... More Is 'evil' constitutional or Unconstitutional?
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13-year-old's school strip-search case heads to Supreme Court i2.cdn.turner.com
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13-year-old's school strip-search case heads to Supreme Court
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cnn.com — The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review,... More Did the school go too far by strip searching?
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Clinton Renews Call on Iran to Free Roxana Saberi i3.ytimg.com
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Clinton Renews Call on Iran to Free Roxana Saberi
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voanews.com — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she hopes Iranian calls for a reexamination of the spy case against Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi will lead to her speedy release. Both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and... More Is American journalist Roxana Saberi bieng used as a political pawn by Iran?
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Obama, Chavez Shake Hands At Summit (PHOTO) images.huffington...
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Obama, Chavez Shake Hands At Summit (PHOTO)
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huffingtonpost.com — Trinidad - Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have met for the first time, shaking hands as the Summit of the Americas gets under way in Trinidad and Tobago. Photos released by the Venezuelan government show the two smiling and Obama... More Positive or negative step?
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A Permanent Democratic Majority?
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realclearpolitics.com — A growing number of political scientists, analysts and strategists are making the case for a realignment of political power in the U.S. to a new Democratic majority based on two trends: 1) the increasing numbers of black and Hispanic... More A Permanent Democratic Majority?
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Poll: 6 in 10 Americans think Obama's on track with economy i2.cdn.turner.com
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Poll: 6 in 10 Americans think Obama's on track with economy
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — Hours before President Barack Obama on Tuesday morning delivers what the White House calls a major speech on the economy, a new national poll indicates that nearly six in 10 Americans think he has a clear plan for solving the country's... More Does President Obama have a clear plan for solving our economic problems?
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Awake and Sing! graphics8.nytimes...
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Awake and Sing!
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nytimes.com — Clearly the last person to serve as an inspiring role model for alternative values would have been Summers. But in her first baccalaureate address last June, his successor as Harvard president, Drew Gilpin Faust, stepped into that moral... More Is there a Moral vacuum in the Obama treasury department?
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Not Dead Yet tbn1.google.com
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weeklystandard.com — Big shifts among independent voters toward Democrats caused Republicans to lose the majority in Congress in 2006 and then shed even more seats in the House and Senate in 2008. Some argue these trends presage a permanent GOP congressional... More Will Independents Fuel GOP Comeback?
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