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Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
New Tancredo Ad Depicts Fictional Terrorist Attack — Tom Tancredo's new ad, set to run in Iowa — if any stations will accept it, that is — is a true original. The ad depicts the dire consequences of our open borders through a dramatization of a fictitious terrorist attack in the middle of a shopping mall.
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Associated Press:
La. Pol's 'Buckwheat' Remark Sparks Ire — HOUMA, La. (AP) — A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign "Buckwheat," prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office. — Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat …
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Candidate Apologizes For 'Buckwheat' Remark — HOUMA, La. — A state representative in a runoff election infuriated civil rights leaders after she ended a conversation with the mother of the NAACP's local president by saying, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat."
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Righting Reagan's Wrongs? — Let's set the record straight on Ronald Reagan's campaign kickoff in 1980. — Early one morning in the late spring of 1964, Dr. Carolyn Goodman, her husband, Robert, and their 17-year-old son, David, said goodbye to David's brother, Andrew, who was 20.
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History News Network:
Did David Brooks Tell the Full Story About Reagan's Neshoba County Fair Visit? — In his November 9, 2007, column in the New York Times, David Brooks discussed Ronald Reagan's appearance at the Neshoba County Fair in 1980 and his use of the term "states' rights."
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The Atlantic Online, Campaign for America's Future, The Mahablog, Liberty Street and Grasping Reality …
New York Sun:
Ron Paul's Prescience — Congressman Ron Paul: It just looks like we may well come to a '79, '80. Do you anticipate there's a possibility that we'll face a crisis of the dollar such as we had in '79 and 1980? Chairman Bernanke: "The Federal Reserve is committed to mainly low and stable inflation …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Ron Paul distortions and smears
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Washington Monthly, A NEWT ONE, Middle Earth Journal, Liberal Values, LewRockwell.com Blog, MoJoBlog and The Impolitic
Dominic Kennedy / Times of London:
Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister — Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt. — Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dean says Jews can go to heaven — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean came out for inclusive team prayers in public schools while speaking Sunday to a gathering of thousands of Jewish leaders, according to a leading Jewish news agency. — In another statement likely …
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Panel May Cut Sentences For Crack — An independent panel is considering reducing the sentences of inmates incarcerated in federal prisons for crack cocaine offenses, which would make thousands of people immediately eligible to be freed. — The U.S. Sentencing Commission …
William Saletan / Slate:
CAN TEEN SEX PREVENT DELINQUENCY? — Discoveries of genetic differences between races are worrying intellectuals. Benefits of finding differences: 1) It helps us understand diseases. 2) It helps people clarify their ancestry. 3) It helps us target drugs and prenatal tests to populations likely to benefit from them.
Alan Krueger / AMERICAN.COM:
What Makes a Terrorist — It's not poverty and lack of education, according to economic research by Princeton's ALAN KRUEGER. Look elsewhere. — In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, policymakers, scholars, and ordinary citizens asked a key question …
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Done With Mirrors
Lia Miller / New York Times:
Borders Adds TV Watching to Its Bookstores' Entertainment — Borders bookstores — with their cafes, toys and games and large displays of movies and music — have never exactly been confused with, say, university libraries. — A new strategy at Borders will reinforce the message that its stores …
CNN Political Ticker:
Bill Clinton: 'Boys have been getting tough' on Hillary — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton continued to weigh in Monday on intensified criticism of his wife, telling a South Carolina audience, "those boys have been getting tough on her." — "It's a great time to be a Democrat …
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BBC:
Climate scepticism: The top 10 — What are some of the reasons why "climate sceptics" dispute the evidence that human activities such as industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and deforestation are bringing potentially dangerous changes to the Earth's climate?