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Monthly Archives: August 2009
What Are The ‘Birthers’ Really After?
BY JOE CONASON On Aug. 4, President Barack Obama celebrated the anniversary of his birth, an event that occurred 48 years ago in the state of Hawaii. This is an indisputable fact, as sane critics on the right, such as the editors of the National Review and the veteran pundit Patrick Buchanan, acknowledge. And yet […]
Red States vs. Blue States
BY FROMA HARROP In an entertaining but silly political game, partisans score points by comparing statistics of so-called red states and blue states. Conservative Ross Douthat does that in a recent column, “Blue-State Blues.” Aroused, liberals came back with their own numbers, many of which did not prove much, either. Douthat holds that conservative red […]
Happy Endings
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I know. The North Koreans are using President Bill Clinton’s visit for all their own reasons. Attention world: Here we are, our leader is alive, Bill Clinton is paying his due. They couldn’t be happier if they’d set the whole thing up. Which, of course, they did, by grabbing the journalists in […]