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How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize — Al Gore did it—you can too! — In the last decade, Al Gore has won the triple crown: an Oscar, a Nobel Peace Prize, and (this is disputed) Florida. Now, winning an Oscar is hard—you usually have to pretend to be handicapped, or speak …
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Gore, U.N. body win Nobel Peace Prize
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Fox News: Gore's Never 'Actually Done Something For Peace;' Give Petraeus The Prize
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Czech president Vaclav Klaus: "surprised" at Nobel prize for Gore
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Question for grown-ups: Who deserves government-subsidized health insurance? — Update 7:45pm Eastern. BitsBlog wonders: … Grown-up meanie Mark Steyn boils it down: "...a two-property three-car family does not demonstrate the need for entitlement expansion."
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"MEANIES," "HYPOCRITES," AND THE INFANTILIZATION OF POLITICS — The infantilization of American politics is nearly complete. Exhibit A is the Democrats' use of a 12 year-old to give the party's radio address. Exhibt B is much of what E.J. Dionne writes. — These exhibits come together in Dionne's latest column.
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A meanie writes — I'm out of the country so I've only just been alerted to the fact that in The Washington Post E J Dionne has called me a meanie and hypocrite. I'm certainly a meanie, but I don't quite get the hypocrite thing. I've been consistently opposed to swollen middle-class entitlements …
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Former Top General in Iraq Faults Bush Administration — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top American commander called the Bush administration's handling of the war incompetent and warned that the United States was "living a nightmare with no end in sight."
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Ex-general: Iraq `nightmare' for US — ARLINGTON, Va. - The U.S. mission in Iraq is a "nightmare with no end in sight" because of political misjudgments after the fall of Saddam Hussein that continue today, a former chief of U.S.-led forces said Friday. — Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez …
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Associated Press Is Outdone In Accuracy By...Fox News! — Updated below. — It's a very sad day for a reputable news organization when it finds itself badly outdone on accuracy by Fox News, but that's exactly what happened to the Associated Press today. — The AP is running with a story right …
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The Great Navigator — Bill Clinton's greatest domestic achievement …
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Newsweek's Jaw-Dropping Erratum — The editor of Newsweek has added a remarkable erratum to the sidebar to a nasty article by Michael Hirsh about the Giuliani campaign, "Would You Buy a Used Hawk From This Man?" First, here is the sidebar: … The subsequent correction warrants a place in Guinness World Records.
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Our sorcery exposed! — The neocon conspiracy embedded …
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An Open Letter to the Ron Paul Faithful — Editor's Note: — Dear folks, — You guys are good. Real good. You are truly a force on World Wide Web and I tip my hat to you. — That's based on my first hand experience of your work regarding our CNBC Republican candidate debate.
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Prosecutors expected to file charges against Bernard Kerik — Bernard Kerik's legal nightmare is about to get worse, with federal prosecutors expected to file charges against the former police commissioner that will likely include allegations of bribery, tax fraud and obstruction of justice, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: Gore thinks Clinton unstoppable — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A source involved in Gore's past political runs told CNN that he definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president. — But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled …
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The GOP's 20% Problem — How do candidates distance themselves from Bush without alienating his die-hards? — Fred Thompson gives "a very incoherent and not very concise stump speech," peaked months ago, and is the campaign's "biggest dud." Mitt Romney has "an authenticity problem"; he is "almost too mechanical about the issues."
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USS Cole Anniversary Today: Media Silent — On this day in the year 2000, the guided missile destroyer USS Cole was attacked by Islamic terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Quaeda group. Today is the seventh anniversary of that attack. Seventeen American sailors were killed …
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On Gore — First, before any other yapping and commentary, a big congratulations to Al Gore. — There are several layers of irony and poetic justice wrapped into this honor. The first is that the greatest step for world peace would simply have been for Gore not to have had the presidency stolen from him in November 2000.