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‘Invasion of Georgia’—a ‘3 a.m. moment’ — When the North Caucasus slid into war Thursday night, it presented Senators John McCain and Barack Obama with a true “3 a.m. moment,” and their responses to the crisis suggested dramatic differences in how each candidate, as president, would lead America in moments of international crisis.
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1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle — GORI, Georgia — Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia veered closer to all-out war on Saturday as Russia moved parts of its Black Sea fleet toward Georgia's coast and intensified air attacks on Georgia, striking two apartment buildings …
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RAPING GEORGIA — RUSSIA INVADES AN AMERICAN ALLY — AS I write, Russian tanks grind into a brave and isolated democratic state. — Assuming that the world's attention would focus on Beijing, Moscow stage-managed an elaborate act of aggression against Georgia.
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Taunting the Bear — The hostilities between Russia and Georgia that erupted on Friday over the breakaway province of South Ossetia look, in retrospect, almost absurdly over-determined. For years, the Russians have claimed that Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili …
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1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle
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Russia crushes Georgia and Europe's hopes for energy independence
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Mistress' Family Challenges Edwards to Take DNA Test — Sister of Other Woman in Edwards Affair: ‘Stop Bad-Mouthing My Sister’ — The family of John Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, is challenging the former senator to take a DNA paternity test after his claim that he did not father Hunter's 6-months-old child.
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Reticence of Mainstream Media Becomes a Story Itself — For almost 10 months, the story of John Edwards's affair remained the nearly exclusive province of the National Enquirer — through reports, denials, news of a pregnancy, questions about paternity and, finally, a slapstick chase through a hotel in Beverly Hills.
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Edwards — I never much liked John Edwards as a politician...and I guess we now know that he's a heel as a human being, too. But that doesn't mean his tawdry personal life is any of my concern. Consensual sex among adults isn't something that we in the media should bother about …
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David Gregory on Edwards: “Is this another skeleton in the Democratic closet that Barack Obama must struggle to overcome?” — On the August 8 edition of MSNBC's Race for the White House, host David Gregory baselessly suggested that former Sen. John Edwards' (D-NC) disclosure of an extramarital affair …
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Old media dethroned — Edwards' admission signals the end of the era in which traditional media set the limits of acceptable political journalism. — When John Edwards admitted Friday that he lied about his affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, a former employee of his campaign …
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On adultery, Edwards cites McCain
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Why McCain would be a mediocre president — Commentary: It's not a given that Republican candidate has the right stuff — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — In his frivolous Paris and Britney ad, Sen. John McCain has asked the right question: Is Barack Obama ready to lead this country?
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K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting — The media frenzy surrounding the recent tragedies on K2 climaxed on Wednesday with a front page article in the New York Times. Though disjointed, the article did sketch out the rough facts that by now have been widely reported in the mainstream news.
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Minnesota's Vice Presidential Contender — Being on John McCain's short list for vice president makes Tim Pawlenty a busy guy. — One day last week began with a meeting on security for the upcoming Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., where Gov. Pawlenty will play host.
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Where have all the Vikings Gone? — This morning, I read the magazine What Is Enlightenment that Glenn picked up for me from a local health food store because the cover had a number of articles about men including “Constructing the New Man,” “19 Powerful Women Tell the Truth about Men,” …
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McCain again slams Obama ‘celebrity’ in new radio address — WASHINGTON (CNN) - John McCain is using his weekly radio address today to continue to attack his opponent, Barack Obama, as a celebrity. — “The Democratic National Convention is just a couple of weeks away.