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Election '08: The Sour Politics of Declinenew

Fear worked for Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, and McCain is singing the same song. Hope worked for Clinton. Hope, plus good manners and a green version of economic nationalism, could be the formula for Obama to turn the Democrats that Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan lured away back into Democrats.
Artvoice  |  Bruce Fisher  |  08-18-2008  |  Commentary

Tim Pawlenty Flip-Flops on Cuba Just in Time to Cozy Up to McCainnew

In late April, the fiscally conservative, free-trade Republican Governor from Minnesota, vetoed a non-binding resolution urging the president and Congress to end the embargo, which surprised some local Cuban-Americans. Of course, the elephant in the room is Pawlenty's Pennsylvania Avenue ambitions.
City Pages (Twin Cities)  |  Matt Snyders  |  06-11-2008  |  Politics

Shame: China's Most Valuable Export

Corrupt Chinese officials face execution while CEOs who mess up commit suicide -- is there something we can learn?
Maui Time  |  Ted Rall  |  08-15-2007  |  Commentary

RNC Report: Osama Bin-Who?new

This entire convention is an orgy of grief and fury over the attack that smashed a vertical city of people just four miles south of the speakers' podium, and yet the name of Osama bin-Laden has not been uttered. Not once.
Boston Phoenix  |  David S. Bernstein  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

RNC Report: Students to GOP - Stop Exploiting 9/11new

Students from Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School march to Ground Zero on the third day of the RNC to protest what they see as the Bush administration’s use of September 11 for propaganda.
Boston Phoenix  |  Kevin Ford  |  09-02-2004  |  Politics

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