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Online Journal - Mon Dec 7, 1:24 am ET
Hillary Clinton, in a just-published piece on the Afghanistan mission (see note at bottom), offers us nothing helpful or enlightening, only boilerplate American slogans, the kind of stuff you’d hear from some provincial congressman giving a Fourth of July speech in a place like Muncie, Indiana.
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The Daily Tar Heel - Wed Dec 9, 1:00 am ET
This article was published in the 2009 Year in Review issue of The Daily Tar Heel. July 15: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passes its version of health care bill.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 8:06 pm ET
After a year of tensions, President Barack Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adversaries.
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The Huffington Post - Tue Dec 8, 8:28 pm ET
In my last post on President Obama's Afghan escalation speech I noted, "Anyone who believes (the troops) will leave in eighteen months is a fool." Now, let's recap the 'withdrawal' planned for eighteen months from now.
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Washington Post - Tue Dec 8, 12:00 am ET
While the Obama holiday elves were refurbishing ornaments and harvesting roots from the garden to hang on the White House trees, across the street at Blair House and in Foggy Bottom, a high-voltage Christmas decorating frenzy was on.
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The Standard-Times - Wed Dec 9, 12:15 am ET
HYANNIS — Just 13 months ago, Ted Kennedy and his wife, Vicki, walked into Precinct 13 on the second floor of the Town Hall for what would be the last time. He voted for Barack Obama, a man whose presidential candidacy he validated.
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Massachusetts Daily Collegian - Wed Dec 9, 12:07 am ET
Hope when it seems all hope is lost is one of the great paradoxes of human behavior and I have never seen this to be truer than during the presidential primaries this year.
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RealClearPolitics.com via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 12:00 am ET
I have no doubt that President Barack Obama and his advisors engaged in extensive discussions on what our policy should be in Afghanistan and came up with the solution they concluded would best protect the United States. The solution was to add 30,000 more U.S. troops to the 68,000 now in Afghanistan and to begin withdrawing our troops in 18 months based on conditions on the ground and success ...
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The News & Observer - Tue Dec 8, 2:52 pm ET
The more I listened to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal yesterday, the more convinced I am that the United States is concentrating on the wrong war.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Tue Dec 8, 12:29 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.
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USA Today - Mon Dec 7, 6:27 pm ET
A construction boom in Morocco comes after an ambitious plan launched by the king almost a decade ago to increase tourism by enhancing infrastructure and ratcheting up promotion.
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seattlepi.com - Tue Dec 8, 1:56 pm ET
Gilly, are you hosting Saturday Night Live's Christmas special? Uh-huh. Kristen Wiig will headline the upcoming SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as her impish character on the late-night sketch series. Lively, Lautner and Franco to host SNL Airing ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - Tue Dec 8, 8:54 am ET
For the third year, the official City Hall "holiday tree" is a 20-foot evergreen with 5,000 white origami cranes. Called the "Tree of Hope," the decorations feature messages of hope and peace from people from all over the world. The tree is a project of the...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 5:06 pm ET
The US government said Monday it had no signs that a court in Italy failed to follow the country's laws when it found American Amanda Knox guilty of the murder of her British housemate.
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Seattle Weekly - Tue Dec 8, 10:09 am ET
Speaking on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanaopoulos, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confessed that, unlike the rest of the world's populace, she had not in fact been waitin... Continue reading "Can the U.S. Government Help Amanda Knox?"