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Retail Health Clinics: Convenience With Caveats
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:46pm]
Retail-based health clinics are expanding rapidly across the country. Most are located near the prescription counter inside large groceries. There are reports two large Massachusetts health insurance companies will soon be paying for visits to these clinics.
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Apocalypse News?
[23 Jul 2008 at 11:01pm]
Since the 1960s, Americans have lost respect for major institutions — both government and private — even as the nation seems to be better off than ever. In ways impossible to quantify, Americans have become down on America, allergic to much of what goes on in public.
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Who Will Succeed Obama Or McCain In The Senate?
[23 Jul 2008 at 11:04am]
This year's presidential election will create at least one Senate vacancy. In Illinois, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is one of the possible choices to fill Barack Obama's seat, while Arizona's Democratic governor must name a Republican to the Senate if John McCain is elected president.
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The Politics Of Obama's Overseas Trip
[21 Jul 2008 at 12:00pm]
Barack Obama got a red carpet welcome from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday. Over the weekend, Maliki appeared to endorse Obama's troop withdrawal plan, but Iraqi officials later said his comments were misinterpreted.
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On Economy, How Much Are We Really Hurting?
[21 Jul 2008 at 12:00pm]
Americans are steaming mad! Hot under the collar! Boiling over the high cost of gasoline! So, how are we dealing with it? By buying iPhones and going to see Batman at the movies, of course. Humorist Brian Unger pokes fun at America's way of displaying its displeasure in this week's Unger Report.
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When Should Financial Independence Begin?
[21 Jul 2008 at 12:58pm]
Writer Melody Serafino recently found that most of her post-college peers in New York City live off their parents. In her Newsweek op-ed "Subsidized In The City" she writes, "Financial independence means social freedom and absolute control over my own life. Yet among my peers, I seem to be the only one who feels this way."
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Obama's Foreign Trip; U.S. Envoy to Iran
[19 Jul 2008 at 7:00am]
Scott Simon reviews the week's news with Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr. Among the topics: Sen. Barack Obama's first foreign trip since become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee; and the U.S. sends an envoy to talks in Geneva regarding Iran's uranium enrichment program.
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Fannie's Lesson: The Real Scandals Are Legal
[16 Jul 2008 at 11:01pm]
The lesson behind the Fannie Mae financial mess is about this old and ignored government truism: The worst scandals are the ones that are perfectly legal.
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In Sports, Southpaws Needn't Feel Left Out
[15 Jul 2008 at 11:01pm]
Democrat or Republican, America's next president will certainly be a southpaw. But commentator Frank Deford explains that lefties do more than make great leaders. They also fill the aisles in the sports halls of fame.
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In Defense of Flat-Screens
[15 Jul 2008 at 6:20pm]
Corning Painter, Vice President at Air Products, says that a segment last week on a chemical in flat-screen TVs was misleading. The study conducted, he said, did not take into account all the variables.
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More Awkard Situations Confronted In Ethics Column
[15 Jul 2008 at 11:00am]
O, the Oprah Magazine, explores everyday ethical challenges in its column "Now What Do I Do?" Jancee Dunn, the column's editor, and Faith Salie, a member of the column's ethics panel, discuss what not to say to new mothers, and whether it's ever OK to take your dog into a restaurant.
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It's Not Just What You Say
[14 Jul 2008 at 1:15pm]
According to one editor-in-chief, that's the lesson both Sen. Barrack Obama and the Rev. Jesse Jackson should have learned from Jackson's recent scathing remarks about a Father's Day speech by the Democratic presidential candidate.
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Analysis: Political Implications Of Aiding Lenders
[14 Jul 2008 at 10:28am]
The White House is optimistic that the Treasury Department's plan to bolster Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "will help add stability." Steve Inskeep talks with NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts to sort through the political implications of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac news.
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Foreign policy U-turn
(USATODAY.com)
[23 Jul 2008 at 11:20pm]
USATODAY.com - Lame-duck presidents traditionally turn to foreign policy as power ebbs from them at home, and George W. Bush is no exception. What's remarkable about the Bush administration's final year, however, is how different it is from its earlier ones.
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Our view on Iraq: Why can't Obama admit the obvious? The surge worked
(U...
[23 Jul 2008 at 11:22pm]
USATODAY.com - In January 2007, America's adventure in Iraq seemed like a chaotic failure. The country was riven with sectarian violence, and al-Qaeda in Iraq had gained a foothold in western Anbar province. Attacks on U.S. troops were running well over 1,000 a week, and Iraqi civilians were dying at a rate of more than 3,000 a month.
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Opposing view: Refocus on Afghanistan
(USATODAY.com)
[23 Jul 2008 at 11:21pm]
USATODAY.com - Recent events have demonstrated clearly that Barack Obama's judgment on Iraq is right. Now, it's time to heed that judgment so that we can successfully end the war while refocusing on the fight in Afghanistan.
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In Sudan, stability or civil war?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:00am]
The Christian Science Monitor - While the world seems focused on the International Criminal Court's request to arrest Sudan's president Omar al Bashir for genocide, a single dusty town in central Sudan may hold the key to the country's future stability.
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Open China's great firewall
(The Christian Science Monitor)
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:00am]
The Christian Science Monitor - China has more people online than any other country. But its rulers are also world-class obstructors of the Internet, a practice sure to be under scrutiny during the Olympic Games, when foreigners used to Web freedom will visit Beijing.
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The Silent Olympics
(HuffingtonPost.com)
[24 Jul 2008 at 5:32pm]
HuffingtonPost.com - It is important for the world to know that quietly and out of sight of the mainstream media, ordinary people from all over China have engaged in citizen activism even after the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Their grassroots efforts are building a society that is likely to look very different than the prevailing state-sponsored image of homogenous nationalism, choreographed with even greater care as the Olympics approach.
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TheNewKlan.Org
(The Nation)
[24 Jul 2008 at 4:32pm]
The Nation - The Nation -- Oy. Last night Bill O'Reilly said: "It is not a stretch to say that MoveOn is the new Klan."
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Doing More With Less
(The Nation)
[24 Jul 2008 at 2:00pm]
The Nation - The Nation -- One of my all-time favorite television shows is HBO's The Wire. So it's a little surreal to feel like I'm living in an episode. No, I'm not involved in the drug trade or police department. I'm not a stevedore losing my union job, and I'm not a school teacher struggling with No Child Left Behind. Like the reporters and police officers in the fifth and final season of the show, though, I feel like my work, and the work of many of my colleagues are not being adequately supported. In short, the youth vote community is being asked "to do more with less."
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Obama Under the Microscope in Israel
(RealClearPolitics.com)
[22 Jul 2008 at 9:30am]
RealClearPolitics.com - Tomorrow, Barack Obama will step off his plane into Israel and under a microscope. While he is there, American voters - Jews, Evangelical Christians and others - who factor a presidential candidate's policies toward Israel into their electoral choice, will watch Obama's every step and listen to his every word very, very closely.
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Hard to Be Humble
(RealClearPolitics.com)
[22 Jul 2008 at 10:30am]
RealClearPolitics.com - For a while now, one of the strongest narratives working against Barack Obama has been the notion that he is an elitist and too full of himself.
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A MEASURE OF JUSTICE MAY COME AT LAST IN SERBIA
(Georgie Anne Geyer)
[24 Jul 2008 at 6:58pm]
Georgie Anne Geyer - BELGRADE, Serbia -- The arrest of the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged in the worst massacre since World War II, was an unlikely yet radical transformation in a country that had appeared to be headed on a path toward virulent nationalism and isolation." -- The New York Times, July 23, 2008
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Washington's Overrated "Old Hands"
(Joe Conason)
[24 Jul 2008 at 2:00am]
Joe Conason - Barack Obama knows which countries border Iraq; he understands the difference between Shia and Sunni; and he is probably aware that Czechoslovakia no longer exists — but as John McCain complains, the young senator has "no military experience whatsoever." Indeed, like both of the last two presidents, Sen. Obama possesses scant credentials in national security and foreign policy.
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BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING?
(Ann Coulter)
[23 Jul 2008 at 6:58pm]
Ann Coulter - Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field."
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Editorial Roundup
(AP)
[23 Jul 2008 at 9:33am]
AP - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
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Children in the Middle
(Susan Estrich)
[23 Jul 2008 at 2:00am]
Susan Estrich - Good news. Britney and K-Fed have a settlement! Their lawyers were back in court — again — last week to tell the judge in the long-running battle over custody of their two sons that they had agreed that K-Fed would retain custody, Britney would get more visitation, and she would also pay more.
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McCain Vs. "DESTINY"
(Brent Bozell III)
[23 Jul 2008 at 2:00am]
Brent Bozell III - John McCain has figured out that one way to build enthusiasm among conservatives is to confront his former best friends in the liberal media. As the media glorify Barack Obama the "statesman" on his trip abroad, with the three network anchors lining up for interviews like a gaggle of smitten fan-club presidents, the McCain campaign suddenly acquired a surprising "Annoy The Media" flavor.
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OBAMA FAKING IT
(Maggie Gallagher)
[22 Jul 2008 at 6:58pm]
Maggie Gallagher - Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?
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