Notes From a Grumpy Old Man

• Colorado Calf Mutilations, Caribbean Weirdness, Special K Street

  Paul Krugman
  David Harsanyi
  Robert Scheer
  Eugene Robinson
  
  "Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown?" - Robert [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by yiquan

• Happy Thanksgiving, Immigrants Solve Their Own Problem

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  E J Dionne Jr
  Leslie Gelb
  Joe Conason
  
  
  
  "It's now official: So in vogue are attacks on President Obama that even his proclamation calling the nation to a day of Thanksgiving has become the focus of criticism." - E J [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  by yiquan

• Minorities in Iraq, OK, I mean the Gypsies... Mercs R Us

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  Maureen Dowd
  Kathleen Parker
  Dana Milbank
  Thomas F Cooley
  
  "The industry is on the verge of a coup that many would have thought impossible a year ago: an escape from any major reform of financial regulations." - Dana Milbank
  "You don't have to be a'" [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  by yiquan

• Is American Military Composed of Martians?, GOP's New 10 Points of Light

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  David Brooks
  Dana Milbank
  
  "This is what happens as nations grow wealthier; they use money to buy civilization." - David Brooks
  
  
  Besides trying to initiate the next step of trust between the Palestinian Authority and Israel with the exchange of prisoners for Israeli Sargent Gilad [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  by yiquan

• Iran Plans Protests in Mecca, Freeing Gilad Shalit, Ahmadinejad in Brazil

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  Paul Krugman
  Leslie Gelb
  
  "The reigning doctrine in Washington appears to be “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” - Paul Krugman
  "The message for Mr. Obama should be clear: He should stare hard at the skills of his foreign-policy team and, more so, at his own dominant role [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:04pm EST
  by yiquan

• Glenn Organizes Like ACORN, the Devil is About Scientology, Hasan Nidal Holds Still

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  Vincent Carroll
  Fareed Zakaria
  Dana Milbank
  
  "In the world inhabited by Palestinian children,there is no Israel." - Itamar Marcus
  "As Afghanistan opened itself up after the fall of the Taliban, the cuisine, movies, and money that flowed into the country were, naturally, Indian. This is like" [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:51pm EST
  by yiquan

• Guantanamo's Evil Twin, Facing Divorce with Pakistan, King Abdullah To The Rescue

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  William Greider
  Kathleen Parker
  Heather Sharp
  
  "Members of Congress who bailed out the bankers with public money are quite terrified of voter retribution in the next election."  - William Greider
  "And we're supposed to defend/feel sorry for/protect Sarah from . . . what? Wild success, popularity and'" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  by yiquan

• Obama Becomes Negative, Dissing the Treasury

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  Paul Krugman
  Dana Milbank
  Jacob Bernstein
  Eric McMorris-Santoros
  
  
  "By making what was in effect a multibillion-dollar gift to Wall Street, policy makers undermined their own credibility — and put the broader economy at risk." - Paul Krugman
  "The GOP has" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:36pm EST
  by yiquan

• Obama Contracts Asian Flu, The Politics of Heroin, Chairman Putin v William Browder

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  Dana Milbank
  EJ Dionne Jr
  
  "Obama's reluctance to be challenged in public is more problematic. It sends a message to the world that contradicts his claim to the Chinese students that he is a better leader because he is forced "to hear opinions [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  by yiquan

• Parallel Politics, Right Wing Roundup

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  Maureen Dowd
  David Harsanyi
  Dana Milbank
  Michael Crowley
  
  "In their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency." - Dana Milbank
  "You're either A) a scum-sucking, terror-loving elitist or B) a radical, tea bag-loving simpleton." -' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  by yiquan

• Jet Skiing Among the Corpses, Iran's Clean Bill of Nuclear Health, Fraud Task Force Five...

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  Dana Milbank
  Steve Clemons
  Eugene Robinson
  
  "So much for the Obama team's pledge to be transparent, forthright and accountable for their actions." - Steve Clemons
  "The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea." - Chairman Mao
  [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  by yiquan

• Palin's Coming Out Party, The Spoils of War, Death To Webusers!

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  Paul Krugman
  Fareed Zakaria
  Geoffrey Dunn
  
  "I don’t begrudge Mr. Obama the banquets and the photo ops; they’re part of his job. But behind the scenes he better be warning the Chinese that they’re playing a dangerous game."  - Paul Krugman
  "We're'" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:43pm EST
  by yiquan

• US and Pakistani Distrust, Palestinian End-Around

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  Helene Cooper
  Jonathan Turley
  David Ignatius
  Frank Rich
  
  
  "Among the cherished prerogatives of members of Congress is the right to second-guess."  - David Ignatius
  “Do you want Americans fighting and dying for the Karzai regime?” - Matthew Hoh
  
  A [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  by yiquan

• Yemen Again, Appeasing Chinese, Unfair 9/11 Trials

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  Alan Dershowitz
  Charles Blow
  M J Akbar
  Rami Khouri
  
  Balloon Boy Sprecial
  Denver Post
  
  "Don't mess with America's emotions, America has the emotional instability of a hormonal teenager." - David Lane
  “They are demanding unicorns in Kabul.” - Abdul Rashid [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  by yiquan

• Obama Goes Asian, Afghanistan Needs Khalilzad

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  Paul Krugman
  Dana Milbank
  David Brooks
  Eugene Robinson
  
  Sarah Palin Special
  Interview: Dede Scozzafava
  Matthew Continetti
  Richard Kim, Nancy Reed
  David Kuhn
  
  
  "Here in America, the philosophy behind jobs policy can be summarized as “if you" [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  by yiquan

• Damned Houthis Ask For Truce, the New Love-fest

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  Gayle Lemmon
  Greig & Enterline
  
  “If you don’t like change, you are going to like irrelevance even less,” - Eric Shinseki
  
  
  What looked like a dire situation yesterday, ready to engulf the Middle East in Armageddon, has lessened considerably this morning, as the Yemeni [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:53pm EST
  by yiquan

• Blackouts in Brazil, is Yemen the Beginning of WW111?

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  Maureen Dowd
  Dana Milbank
  
  Changing Policy on Afghanistan
  Mark Ambinder
  Ashraf Ghani
  
  
  Good News on Military Health
  David Ignatius
  
  
  "The gross thing about the Wall Street of the last decade is how much its success was not shared with society." [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  by yiquan

• Have an Explosive Good Time on Your Dream Vacation in Iraq, Dithering Dimitry

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  Dimitry Medvedev
  
  
  
  
  Wondering where to go on your next vacation? Tired of the same old safe places, need some excitement and romance in your life? Why not visit the cradle of civilization, beautiful Iraq? Its already a holy destination for Shiites from [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:24pm EST
  by yiquan

• Berlin Wall, Jailed for Blogging, Netanyahu Goes to Washington

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  Paul Krugman
  
  Lech Walesa
  
  
  
  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, major party time. Usually the politicians co-opt any celebrations by making it one big photo op for themselves. I understand that the current Prime Minister [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:10pm EST
  by yiquan

• Political Pandering of Ft Hood, New Lebanese Govt

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  Frank Rich
  Seymour Hersh
  Lee Siegel
  
  
  “We’re not going to let the system go back to the way it was,” - Timothy Geithner
  "As the unemployment rate crossed the 10 percent threshold at week’s end, we learned that bankers were helping" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:36pm EST
  by yiquan

• Iran Arrests More Protesters, Olympic Memories, Muslim Mafia

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  Naveed Ali Shah
  Sallem Ali, Parag Khanna
  
  "Neither a "surge" of troops and aid in Afghanistan, nor negotiations over Iran's nuclear program without addressing its regional isolation, will bring Central Asia much closer to stability"  - Ali & Khanna
  
  
  
  When Iran' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:09pm EST
  by yiquan

• Purging American Muslims and Republican Moderates, Putting Lipstick on a Swine Flu

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  Paul Krugman
  David Brooks
  Dana Milbank
  Eugene Robinson
  Joe Klein
  "Voters across America are in a bad mood, largely because of the still-grim economic situation."  - Paul Krugman
  
  "Independents are herds of cats who find out what they think through a meandering process" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:59pm EST
  by yiquan

• Yankees Win, Worldwide Wave of Corruption Trials

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  Dana Milbank
  E J Dionne Jr
  Mehdi Khalaji
  
  "Look at the stories we're talking about today and I think it's about a transcendent party." - Michael Steele
  "Presumably, the chairman meant that his party is ascendant, meaning on the rise, and not transcendent, meaning beyond the" [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:27pm EST
  by yiquan

• NY 23, Kinky in Texas, Moonbeam in California

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  Maureen Dowd
  Dana Milbank
  Anne Applebaum
  
  
  “Moderates by definition have no principles,” - Rush Limbaugh
  “Obama, Obama — either you’re with them or you’re with us,” - Iranian Protestors
  
  
  
  Let's talk about the elections held yesterday. I'm not going to pundit you [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by yiquan

• Go Figure, Ahmadinejad is the Reasonable One, the New Hamid Highway

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  Eugene Robinson
  Mikhail Gorbachev
  
  "Most of my frustration is really with the process of getting anything done in Washington, which is not something Obama can unilaterally change, nimbly circumvent or blithely ignore"  - Eugene Robinson
  “It seems this is politics, but politics can still ruin the day.” [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  by yiquan

• US Predator Migrates to Israel, the King and I, Michelle Bachmann Again

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  Paul Krugman
  Lawrence Wright
  Christiane Amanpour
  
  "Unless something changes drastically, we’re looking at many years of high unemployment."  - Paul Krugman
  
  All of the news headlines are about the New York and New Jersey elections tomorrow, and that Hamid Karzai has been anointed King because [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:55pm EST
  by yiquan

• Hillary and Bill's Excellent Adventure

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  "I never expected that anywhere, someone would make such a big statue of me," - Bill Clinton
  “I will admit that clearly there is a lot of misperception, and perception is reality, so therefore it is up to us to try to set it straight,” - [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 12:57pm EST
  by yiquan

• Lack of Water in Gaza, Dick Cheney's Alzheimer Experience

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  Mikhail Gorbachev
  Guatam Adhikari
  Mona Sarika
  
  "The more Taliban feel hemmed in by the Pakistani military presence around South Waziristan, where the Taliban has strongholds, the more they fight back like cornered animals," - Haroon Rashid
  
  oh, that rough beast...
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:26pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Hillary's Pakistani Moment, Zelaya's Final Solution, Free the Military Panel 7

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  Paul Krugman
  David Brooks
  Eugene Robinson
  Dana Milbank
  
  "Nancy Pelosi, you'll burn in hell for this," said a voice, amplified by a bullhorn, from about 50 yards away.
  
  
  "Thank you, insurance companies of America," Pelosi replied to the man. Actually, they were abortion' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Military Budget, Economic Growth, Palin's $100,000 Fees

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  Dana Milbank
  Seth Robinson
  Amy Sullivan
  
  "The problem is that progress is more gradual than his lofty campaign speeches led voters to believe, and they are becoming increasingly disenchanted."  - Dana Milbank
  "For years, assholes in America have had no voice, and I want to be" [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:15pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Karzai No Dope - Dealer, French Rule Scientology Fraud

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  Maureen Dowd
  Kathleen Parker
  Caroline Baum
  Thomas Ricks
  
  This is the second time that Maureen Dowd and Kathleen Parker have published on the same subject. Is it eerie or cool? Do they have a psyhic pundit link, or do they meet for coffee once in [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Lebanese Conflict, Saudis Have a Flogging Good Time

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  David Brooks
  Dana Milbank
  James Surowiecki
  
  "Over the past year, the bonfire of overconfidence has shifted to Washington. Since the masters of finance have been exposed as idiots, the masters of government have concluded (somewhat illogically) that they must be really smart."  - DavidBrooks
  "The St." [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
  by yiquan

• A Night in Tunisia, Sweden's Use of Bunny Power, Tim Pawlenty

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  Paul Krugman
  Louis Menand
  Vali Nasr
  Fareed Zakaria
  
  "In American politics, it should be considered a good thing when, after you have won a Presidential election by more than nine million votes, your chief critics accuse you of filling your" [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 1:39pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Soupy Sales RIP, Dick Cheney's Abusive Legacy

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   Glenn Greenwald
  Adele Stan
  Clarence Page
  
  "I don't do Halloween. It's not that I'm afraid, it's just… Folks, I can't do it. Some four-year-old from Chicago might show up with a razor blade." - Rush Limbaugh
  "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to'" [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
  by yiquan

• All Election Post: Palestine, Iraq, Russia, and Afghanistan

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  Kathleen Parker
  Julian Delasantellis
  Joe Klein
  
  "30 Republican members of the U.S. Senate have been getting phone calls lately from people asking, "Why do you support rape?" - Kathleen Parker
  "Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Obama, Obama, Obama, What's in the Henhouse?

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  Economics
  Paul Krugman
  Judd Gregg
  
  Eugene Robinson
  Dana Milbank
  "Ladies and gentleman, I, Rush Limbaugh, live in Barack Obama's head rent-free." - R Limbaugh
  "As an American I am relieved that President Obama is ignoring the howls of political thugs." - Karen' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:18pm EDT
  by yiquan

• World Drought, Yemeni Rebels, Cocaine Cowboys Running Short On Supply

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  David Ignatius
  Dana Milbank
  Steve Benen
  
  
  Attack Bunnies
  Karl Rove
  Dick Cheney
  
  
  "Perhaps more accurate than saying that McConnell gave 50 health-care speeches would be saying that McConnell gave the same health-care speech 50 times, with minor changes." [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Twisting With Hamid the Night Away, Rocky Mountain Highs

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  Kathleen Parker
  Dana Milbank
  Andrew Kramer
  
  "The debate over whether Americans ought to have the right to be stupid -- or to make other people seem more interesting -- continues apace after 40 years of the (failed) "war on drugs." - Kathleen" [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Secret Service Complaints, Nefertiti or Bust, Our Own Townhall Meeting

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  Glen Butler
  Eugene Robinson
  Dana Milbank
  Steve Coll
  "In the current media environment, where it's more important to have it first than to get it right, it won't be long until the next mix-up." - Dana Milbank
  “Something that we believe in very firmly and basically [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Iran Blames Everyone, Karzai is Pissed, More Muslims in the House

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  Paul Krugman
  
  "Administration officials are furious at the way the financial industry, just months after receiving a gigantic taxpayer bailout, is lobbying fiercely against serious reform."  - Paul Krugman
  
  
  
  drug running for the border...
  The paranoid and fake Iranian government have adopted [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:41pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Blowing Up in Baluchistan, Shootout in Rio

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  Jonathan Alter
  David Frum
  Bono
  "But Republican ways of thinking have infected the minds of too many Democrats. More than a few have fallen into the GOP habit of selling out to corporate interests, pandering to banks, and reflexively assuming that just because the Pentagon recommends escalation" [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Iraq Contracts With China and Britain, Dancing With the Detainees

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  Kathleen Parker
  Steve Coll
  Daniel Gordis
  Rush Limbaugh
  "On any given day, life in the nation's capital feels like being trapped in an "Animal House" sequel -- with less-funny people."   - Kathleen Parker
  "If we stopped today, this legislative session would have been one of'" [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:01pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Obama Avoids Second Line, Meghan McCain

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  Paul Krugman
  David Brooks
  Dana Milbank
  
  
  "But all they seem to have killed with their cries of “socialism” and warnings about “death panels” is their own credibility."  - Paul Krugman
  "But worst of all was the way he seemed to dismiss the idea that his" [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:16pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Rigged Russian Elections, Rev Moon Steps Down, More Islamic Spies on Capitol Hill

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  David Ignatius
  Dexter Filkins
  
  
  "Well, I'm the cow on the tracks".  - Michael Steele
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "We will not sit in a room with fraudsters. We are leaving the room!
  Hillary Clinton spoke in Russia, encouraging The Russian'" [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Mother Theresa, Joseph Stalin, and Michael Steele, MOO MOO

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  Maureen Dowd
  Kathleen Parker
  Dana Milbank
  
  "The answer is . . . drum roll, please . . . women.
  If the GOP is really serious about expanding the party, it's time for the men to hush and let the pros take over."    - Kathleen Parker[...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Syria Gets Serious, Iranian Journalist Crackdown, Iraqi Cancer and Birth Defect Rates

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  David Brooks
  Eugene Robinson
  Boris Morozov
  
  "As Republican leaders -- except RNC Chairman Michael Steele -- are beginning to realize, "I'm With the Taliban Against America" is not likely to be a winning slogan."  - Eugene Robinson
  "If I'm controversial, it's because I say things everybody'" [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:51pm EDT
  by yiquan

• 5 New Saints, Rush Redux, Palestine Disunity

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  Paul Krugman
  E J Dionne Jr
  Fareed Zakaria
  
  "One lesson from the Great Depression is that you should never underestimate the destructive power of bad ideas."  - Paul Krugman
  "The effort to understand where Obama hatred comes from has been one of the few growth areas" [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
  by yiquan

• 'Dissing Peace,Empty Colorado Prison, Chase Card Scam

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  Frank Rich
  Joseph Rocha
  
  
  "Perhaps the most surreal aspect of our great Afghanistan debate is the Beltway credence given to the ravings of the unrepentant blunderers who dug us into this hole in the first place."  - Frank Rich
  "Once I joined the Navy, I was" [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
  by yiquan

• Rush Says President is a Worldwide Joke, Empty Prison Blues

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  Dana Milbank
  Chuck Todd
  
  "Colorado is the worst off, having only enough medicine for 14.9 percent of its residents."  - Dana Milbank
  "We are a country that can do better, and our citizens deserve better. The Congress and the Administration are working on bipartisan, practical solutions to" [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
  by yiquan

• What a Weekend, From Nobel Prize to Gay March

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  Paul Krugman
  David Brooks
  Dana Milbank
  
  
  
  "Gender politics is always just beneath the surface in this town, because the inequality in power is stubborn and persistent."   - Dana Milbank
  "There isn't a lot you can do without either Congress,'" [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 1:44pm EDT
  by yiquan