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The San Angelo Standard-Times - Fri Dec 4, 5:10 pm ET
SAN ANGELO, Texas —Let me begin by wishing you a very merry Christmas . I will celebrate the birth of the Christ child. Whatever you celebrate during this season, I hope it will be a time of happiness.Recently Jack Cowan quoted George Will, who said that most people hate their Christmas gifts. I have received one early gift that I loved. My friends Pat and Bill made a donation to the Hospice ...
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The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 4, 12:00 pm ET
Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney in a recent interview with Politico labeled President Barack Obama's drawn-out process of deciding on a troop surge for...
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Kingston Daily Freeman - Sat Dec 5, 3:07 am ET
U.S. REP. Maurice Hinchey is standing by his controversial allegation that former President George W. Bush deliberately let Osama bin Laden escape from the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in late 2001.
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The Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sat Dec 5, 1:15 am ET
To begin, a few snapshots from the life of Justice Antonin Scalia: As a young boy, he failed the entrance exam to a prestigious high school. Six decades later, he's still kicking himself over a question he got wrong. He was passed over by Princeton.
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The Biloxi Sun Herald - Fri Dec 4, 2:57 pm ET
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
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The Kansas City Star - Thu Dec 3, 10:57 pm ET
President Obama’s decision on Afghanistan was tardy, messy — and courageous. In contrast to the expectation that he would settle on a timid half-measure, Obama took more of a seven-eighths measure, leaving his commanders impressed and satisfied. In contrast to former Vice President Richard Cheney ’s charge that Obama is making national security decisions for “small ‘p’ political reasons,” the ...
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The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 4, 12:14 pm ET
Last week's show was a recap via mostly previously unseen scenes, so recall that when we last had a new episode, Shambles's plot to depose...
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Memphis Commercial Appeal - Fri Dec 4, 1:00 am ET
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama 's decision on Afghanistan was tardy, messy -- and courageous. In contrast to the expectation that he would settle on a timid half-measure, Obama took more of a seven-eighths measure, leaving his commanders impressed and satisfied. In contrast to former vice president Dick Cheney 's charge that Obama is making national security decisions for "small 'p ...
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Tulane Hullabaloo - Fri Dec 4, 3:21 pm ET
On Sept. 11, 2001, our great nation was attacked by terrorists in what could only be described as an act of ultimate cowardice. In response, our nation, along with the support of the world, attacked the nation that harbored these terrorists and served as the training camp for those that attacked us on that fateful [...]
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The Washington Times - Fri Dec 4, 6:15 am ET
BAGHDAD | Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who successfully promoted the war that Barack Obama opposed as a presidential candidate, has sent the U.S. leader "sincere congratulations" for winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Chalabi, who cultivated neoconservatives and the George W. Bush administration when he was an exile drumming up support against Saddam Hussein, told The Washington ...
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Boston Globe - Fri Dec 4, 12:59 am ET
Stephen G. Pagliuca is surrounding himself with images of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Martha Coakley is confronting Wall Street. Michael E. Capuano is talking tough. Alan Khazei is touting endorsements.
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NPR - Thu Dec 3, 5:52 pm ET
President Obama has ordered 30,000 more troops into battle in Afghanistan. The escalation is meant to be as rapid as possible, but the process that brought the president to this point wasn't rapid at all. It was lengthy and deliberate — and it had many twists and turns.
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Lamorinda Sun - Fri Dec 4, 11:10 am ET
Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara river, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. I don't know what people think is going to happen when a nation that already sponsors international terrorism has nuclear bombs to give to terrorists around the world.
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Independent Florida Alligator - Thu Dec 3, 11:48 pm ET
In a recent interview, Dick Cheney attacked the president for “agonizing” over the Afghanistan strategy, saying: “Every time [Obama] delays, defers, debates, changes his position, it begins to raise questions: Is the commander in chief really behind what [the military has] been asked to do?”
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The Adobe Press - Thu Dec 3, 11:35 pm ET
The Bush administration could talk the talk, with President Bush and Vice President Cheney chock-full of aggression and swagger and bombast, and America was hated and derided worldwide as completely ineffectual and unlawful in dealing with terrorism and global concerns.