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Coburn Aide: Playboy Makes You Gay!

Arnold Hamilton - September 22, 2009 0

BY KAREN WEBB At the Values Voter Summit, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn’s chief of staff Michael Schwartz, a veteran conservative activist, said: "All pornography is homosexual...

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Canada And France Also Have Health Care Debates

Arnold Hamilton - September 22, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP The debate over what kind of health care system we should have often includes the kinds others have. The programs in Canada and France have received special attention, and so those countries’ efforts to fix their own programs should be of interest. No health care system is set in stone. Whatever emerges […]

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Not A Mind Reader

Arnold Hamilton - September 17, 2009 1

BY KAREN WEBB “Mr. Wilson, never apologize for allowing your love of truth to overrun your desire to be polite,” the Sons of Confederate Veterans...

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Joe Wilson’s Dixie Partisans

Arnold Hamilton - September 17, 2009 0

BY JOE CONASON The stupid misconduct of entertainer Kanye West and politician Joe Wilson demonstrated, if any fresh proof is necessary, that thoughtless rudeness isn’t confined by ethnicity, ideology or background. With their highly public episodes of misconduct, both earned sharp public censure. Yet while West has expressed real remorse for his misbehavior at the […]

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What Americans Really Want

Arnold Hamilton - September 17, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP “Obama’s Speech Doesn’t Turn the Tide,” reads an ABC News headline about new poll results on public reaction to the president’s address on health care reform. An interesting take, given that the tide doesn’t need turning. The ABC/Washington Post poll found the public evenly divided in being for or against the reform […]