Roll Call has assembled a list of "the top 10 most partisan Congressional 'street fighters' from the past 50 years." Roll Call, which admits this list is "somewhat subjective" (I'd call it very subjective), says its criteria were "Members who ...
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I usually leave the personal stuff out of this blog because, well, it is not a personal kind of blog. But I am making an exception tonight to tout the preschool two of my three children attended over the past ...
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Ben Stein's piece on Deep Throat and Genocide doesn't mince words. Keith Olbermann blogs some interesting Deep Throat questions. John Dean, closer to the story, finds many errors in Deep Throat's tips to Woodward, while journalist William Greider, writing for ...
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The Endangered Species Act has failed and will continue to fail so long as private property owners are penalized for good environmental stewardship, The National Center for Public Policy Research and 52 other leading national and grassroots organizations say in ...
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From his gut-wrenching confirmation hearings in 1991 through his past 13 years on the bench, Clarence Thomas is likely the most misunderstood justice ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court. As a black conservative jurist, he continues to ...
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Lionel Tate is back in the news again. Tate is the young black boy from Florida who was convicted of brutally murdering a six-year-old girl when he was only 12 and became the youngest person in American history to be ...
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Recent box office receipts indicate a significant number of people are taking notice of "Crash," a recent movie that attempts to explain why each of us may hold certain notions about other ethnic groups. Douglas Young, on the Internet Movie ...
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One of the most contentious of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees was California Supreme Court Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown.  Highly rated by the American Bar Association, Justice Brown is praised by her peers on the California Supreme Court, ...
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One of Richard Nixon's biographers doesn't believe the "Deep Throat" mystery is over, but Ben Bradlee, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are confirming it. Bradlee, Bernstein's and Woodward's top editor, said Tuesdaythat he didn't learn Deep Throat's name until after ...
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In a Washington Post profile by Howard Kurtz today, blogger Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine shares his proudest moment ...
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