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<title><![CDATA[ Let all Maryland students dream ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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THE DISPIRITING national debate over immigration has departed Washington for the time being and alighted mostly in state capitals. In many of them, Republicans have led a charge - mostly unsuccessful - to enact Arizona-style enforcement crackdowns based on the whimsical idea that undocumented...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Time to act on free trade ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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THE POLITICS of free trade have never been easy for President Obama - and they appear to be getting harder. Mr. Obama wants congressional ratification of a tariff-slashing deal with South Korea, revising it recently to meet the objections of the U.S. auto industry and labor unions.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ ROTC's return ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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IN NOVEMBER, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly stood before an audience in St. Louis and spoke from the heart about the disconnect between the lives and experiences of members of the U.S. military - and those of the civilians they are defending. The armed forces are at war and have been for a...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TOM TOLES ]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[ Right Turn ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a greater contrast last week in the Middle East than Libya and Morocco. While the bloodbath continued in Libya, Morocco was a different story. Libyans were fighting for their lives; Moroccans were listening to an unusual speech, in which King Mohammed VI promised...
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<title><![CDATA[ An ethics code for the high court ]]></title>
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The Supreme Court operates with almost no rules to guide - or constrain - behavior. But why should it be subject to lesser ethics standards than lower courts?
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<dc:creator>Nan Aron</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ What if we're not broke? ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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"We're broke." You can practically break a search engine if you start looking around the Internet for those words. They're used repeatedly with reference to our local, state and federal governments, almost always to make a case for slashing programs - and, lately, to go after public-employee unions....
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<dc:creator>E.J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Will Gaddafi reverse the tide of the Arab Spring? ]]></title>
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Ever since Tunisian fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself ablaze days ago, the Arab uprising has been a mutating virus. That is why Moammar Gaddafi - who has set Libya ablaze - has become so important.
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<dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator>
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The global food crunch ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Here's a question about the Mideast turmoil for future historians: How much did food inflation contribute? We know some basic facts. Middle East countries import 50 percent or more of their wheat, a staple food for many. Beginning in mid-2010, world grain prices exploded. At $8.56 a bushel in...
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<dc:creator>Robert J. Samuelson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Rep. King's red scare ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Peter King staged his investigation into the loyalty of Muslim Americans in an appropriate place: a hearing room once used by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Why I'm hopeful about the Middle East uprisings ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Iam often asked why so many Israelis are worried by the popular rebellions rocking the Middle East and why I'm so hopeful. My response is that just as their worry is tempered by hope, my hope is tempered by worry.
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<dc:creator>Natan Sharansky</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ D.C.'s cozy election oversight ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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INTERIM AT-LARGE D.C. Council member Sekou Biddle (D) is trying to kick a Republican opponent off the ballot for the April 26 special election. The process, dominated by Democrats, has not inspired confidence that the decision will be fair and impartial.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Heartbreak in Japan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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TWO DAYS AFTER the strongest earthquake Japan has ever recorded, the extent of damage and loss was far from clear. The quake and subsequent tsunami exposed once again the vulnerability of even the most advanced communications, energy and transportation networks - the lifelines of modern civilizat...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Budget gamesmanship ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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DEMONSTRATING ITS limitless capacity for wrangling over the trivial while letting serious problems fester, Congress has spent weeks fighting over a sliver of the budget problem. Republicans want to cut spending by $61 billion for the fiscal year that's already almost half over. Senate Democrats c...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ David S. Broder: Let me call him sweetheart ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Eulogies for David Broder are still tumbling from the fingertips of friends and fans. He was the dean of political journalists, a man both generous and gracious, a reporter's reporter. Humble.
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<dc:creator>Kathleen Parker</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court and the health-care mandate muddle ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When the Supreme Court considers whether Congress has the constitutional power to compel individuals to buy health insurance, the argument supporting Congress may rest on a non sequitur and a semantic fiat. A judge's recent ruling argues that the insurance mandate must be constitutional because O...
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<dc:creator>George F. Will</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ What the school reform debate misses about teachers ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As the debate rages over public unions and, in particular, over their role in school reform, an unfortunate dichotomy about America's teachers has emerged. On one side, unions and many teachers say that teachers are unfairly vilified, that they work incredibly hard under difficult circumstances and...
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<dc:creator>Joel Klein</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Building a culture of tolerance in the Mideast ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After weeks of exhilarating scenes from Tahrir Square, Egypt offered a reality check last week that shows how hard the transition to democracy will be in the Arab world: The essential ingredient will be a culture of tolerance - and a spirit of unity that overcomes political, religious and other d...
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<dc:creator>David Ignatius</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Mayor Gray's very bad start ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Undoubtedly, Lorraine Green, Mayor Vincent C. Gray's campaign chairwoman; Howard Brooks, a Gray campaign consultant; and former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown have a lot on their minds these days.
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<dc:creator>Colbert I. King</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Libya's conflict and national security ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The first thing you notice in Ras Jdir, Tunisia - after your eyes adjust to the sunlight across the barren expanse of gray sand, rocks and dust - are the lines of bewildered people gathered in a transit camp that provides respite from the desert's inhospitable landscape.
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<dc:creator>Eric P. Schwartz and Nancy Lindborg</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The backlash against democracy ]]></title>
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A specter is haunting the world's remaining dictators - the specter of the Jasmine Revolution .
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<dc:creator>Carl Gershman</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The 'Utah Way' toward immigration reform ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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SALT LAKE CITY Utah, where Republicans outnumber Democrats by better than three to one in the state legislature, has passed the nation's most liberal - and most reality-based - policy on illegal immigration. And the Republican governor is expected to sign it.
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<dc:creator>Lee Hockstader</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ A no-fly zone for Libya ]]></title>
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Leaders around the world are vigorously debating the advisability of a no-fly zone to stop the violence unfolding in Libya . Some cite Bosnia, where NATO took too long to protect civilian populations in the mid-1990s. Others remember Rwanda, where President Bill Clinton expressed regret for not...
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<dc:creator>John F. Kerry</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Two months ago, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker invited businesses in Illinois to " escape to Wisconsin " as a result of the recently enacted tax increases in Illinois.
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<dc:creator>Jack Markell</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obama's missteps on Libya cement Gaddafi's advantage ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In diplomacy, as in medicine, the cardinal principle in any crisis is to first do no harm. The Obama administration's approach to Libya has violated this principle in at least two respects. Having made matters worse for Libya's democratic opposition, the administration now must be willing to reverse...
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<dc:creator>Stephen Rademaker</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Will Maryland follow Illinois's lead and abolish the death penalty? ]]></title>
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ILLINOIS THIS WEEK became the 16th state to abolish the death penalty . Maryland should become the 17th.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TOM TOLES ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ For Mayor Gray, a needed probe of hiring and a chance to mend credibility ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S Office, which generally works with great circumspection, this week issued a rare acknowledgement that it is evaluating allegations leveled against D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) by a former mayoral candidate who claims he got a job and cash as reward for his political activity in...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Turkey's bad example on democracy and authoritarianism ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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JUST AT the moment that Turkey is being held up as a model for Arab states emerging from authoritarianism, its claim to be the Muslim world's leading democracy is in danger. Don't take it from us: Here is what the country's president, Abdullah Gul, has to say: "The impression I get is that there are...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Peter King's modern-day witch hunt ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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"T here is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed Thursday as he launched his McCarthyite probe of American Muslims . He could not have been more wrong. If King is looking for threats to our freedoms and values, a mirror would be the place to...
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<dc:creator>eugene robinson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Why Saudi Arabia is stable amid the Mideast unrest ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have toppled their regimes. Unrest continues in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Algeria and Oman. Yet the host of the world's largest energy reserves and the birthplace of Islam, Saudi Arabia, remains conspicuously quiet .
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<dc:creator>Nawaf Obaid</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Et tu, Jack Lew? ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - Social Security is the most solvable.
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<dc:creator>Charles Krauthammer</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Taliban is losing its advantage in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN Until five months ago, Forward Operating Base Jackson, in Sangin, was an island in a Taliban sea. Patrol bases were ringed by Taliban flags, about 100 to 200 meters out, to dramatize the state of siege. Everywhere beyond the main road was an enemy sanctuary. Each spring...
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<dc:creator>Michael Gerson</dc:creator>
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With all that's going on - fights over budget cuts, the encroaching debt ceiling, the economy and job creation, not to mention the wave of protests across the Middle East - I asked Valerie Jarrett: Why is President Obama focused on bullying?
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<title><![CDATA[ David S. Broder: The best political reporter of his time ]]></title>
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What Broder meant to The Post.
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<dc:creator>Robert G. Kaiser</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ David S. Broder: Reporter ]]></title>
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OF ALL THE EPITAPHS that might fit him - journalist, columnist, commentator, author, teacher, student of politics - we think our friend and colleague Dave Broder, who died Wednesday at age 81, would probably be most pleased with the one-word description we offer above. Mr. Broder was a columnist for...
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"WE HAVE ALREADY engineered the most rapid and forceful set of sanctions that have ever been applied internationally," President Obama boasted last week in one of his rare public statements about Libya. The accuracy of that claim is open to question ; but whether or not it set a record, the...
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<title><![CDATA[ Homegrown Islamic radicalization: Worth studying ]]></title>
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FOR THE PAST several years, discussions on Capitol Hill about the growing threat of homegrown terrorism have been relatively commonplace - and uncontroversial. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, for example, held a series of hearings on "The Threat of Islamic...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ What Wisconsin Democrats can teach Washington Democrats ]]></title>
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Consider the contrast between two groups of Democrats, in Wisconsin and in the nation's capital.
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<dc:creator>E.J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Japan's latest political scandal is ostensibly about foreigners giving campaign donations. But the true scandal is what the episode shows about continuing Japanese reluctance to welcome anyone who doesn't look and talk like them.
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<dc:creator>Fred Hiatt</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ David S. Broder: The best political reporter of his time ]]></title>
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D avid S. Broder , who died Wednesday at 81 , was the best-known and surely the best political reporter of his time. He was fair, thoughtful and astoundingly hardworking, and he earned the admiration of an extraordinary range of American politicians. His judgments could have great influence, as when...
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<dc:creator>Robert G. Kaiser</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Senate legislation threatens key anti-terrorism tools ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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For the better part of a year, Obama administration officials, led by Michael E. Leiter , head of the National Counterterrorism Center and the person principally in charge of assessing terrorist threats, have been warning that this menace now comes in a new "flavor." Al-Qaeda has found it...
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<dc:creator>Michael V. Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ A transition for Arab economies ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After the radiant sunrise of the Arab spring, here's a somber shadow: Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries making the transition to democracy are likely to face severe economic problems over the next several years - ones that could bring chaos if the Arabs and their friends in the West aren't...
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<dc:creator>David Ignatius</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Naming Kaya Henderson to schools post is a great step for D.C. ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MAYOR VINCENT C. GRAY (D) is expected to announce Wednesday Interim Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson as his choice to lead the District's schools. In tapping Ms. Henderson to replace former chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, with whom she worked closely to jump-start the nation's worst public school...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ A crude idea: Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease gas prices ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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AS THE PRICE OF OIL roars above $100 per barrel and gasoline nears $4 per gallon, a cry for solutions understandably goes up. Higher gas prices amount to a regressive tax increase on the American consumer, with all that implies for the ability of the U.S. and global economies to sustain their...
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<title><![CDATA[ Mr. Obama's Gitmo order is a half step in the right direction ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S executive order governing certain detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison is both an admission of failure and a step in the right direction.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ On Libya, too many questions ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In September 1941, Japan's leaders had a question for Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto: Could he cripple the U.S. fleet in Hawaii? Yes, he said. Then he had a question for the leaders: But then what?
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<dc:creator>George F. Will</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Where's the economic recovery? ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Suppose the economy recovers but everyone still feels lousy.
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<dc:creator>Harold Meyerson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Islamic radicalism: The questions that Rep. Peter King is right to ask ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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One of the odder exchanges I've ever seen during a congressional hearing involved Attorney General Eric Holder, Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith and the phrase "radical Islam."
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<dc:creator>Ruth Marcus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Post Partisan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Ever heard this one: Even if the Earth's climate changes, warmer temperatures will be good for America - longer growing seasons, perhaps? Or its cousin: Humans will simply do what they've done for millennia - adapt to changing temperatures with different technology and behaviors? Isn't that better...
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<dc:creator>Stephen Stromberg</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ With Pawlenty's Iowa speech, a side of syrup ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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On paper, Tim Pawlenty may be the most formidable Republican challenger to President Obama in 2012. Too bad he's running as somebody else.
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<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Sulaimon Brown's charges must be taken seriously ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MAYOR VINCENT C. GRAY (D) called an unusual news conference Sunday afternoon to deny allegations by a former D.C. mayoral candidate that Mr. Gray gave the candidate a city job in exchange for campaign attacks on then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D). He disclaimed any knowledge of his campaign providing...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ High court's ruling on DNA tests is a lifeline for inmates ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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HENRY W. SKINNER was on death row in Texas and less than an hour away from being executed when the Supreme Court agreed to hear his case. On Monday, the justices threw Mr. Skinner and others like him a lifeline.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Metro's bag checks: Necessary nuisance for a real threat ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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HERE'S A MEMORY nudge for anyone who thinks random bag checks on Metro trains and buses are an unnecessary nuisance:
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Arab world isn't clamoring for our help ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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I'm listening hard, but I just can't hear the "voices around the world" that my colleague Charles Krauthammer said last week are "calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi." It's true that John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and present Fox News employee, has declared that ...
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<dc:creator>Anne Applebaum</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ After the revolution, establishing democracy ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN In the heart of Central Asia we are watching with solidarity as events unfold in the Middle East . The "people power" that the world witnessed in Tunisia and Egypt reminds us in Kyrgyzstan of our own victory last year against a corrupt dictator. Nothing can be more moving than to...
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<dc:creator>Roza Otunbayeva</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ A blow to religious freedom in Pakistan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Last week, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) was awakened by a 2:20 a.m. call. His first response was to fear bad news about his children or grandchildren. But when the American ambassador to Pakistan came on the line, Wolf immediately knew that his friend Shahbaz Bhatti had been killed. Bhatti was Pakista...
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<dc:creator>Michael Gerson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Rep. Peter King's hearings on Islamic radicalization: Fuel for the bigots ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Unlike Moses Herzog, the eponymous character of the Saul Bellow novel "Herzog," I do not feverishly compose mad letters to public figures and sinister government agencies (the IRS, for instance). But I often yell back at the TV set. This happened Sunday when CNN's Candy Crowley asked Rep. Peter K...
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<dc:creator>Richard Cohen</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Stoking irrational fears about Islam ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is about to convene hearings whose premise offends our nation's founding ideals and whose targets are law-abiding members of a religious minority. King has decided to investigate Islam.
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<dc:creator>Eugene Robinson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ China's leadership cowers ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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EVERYONE KNOWS that the future belongs to China, right? Its economy recently surpassed Japan's as the world's second-largest . Its navy is roaming ever farther and with growing confidence. It is training a generation of scientists and engineers in numbers the United States can only imagine. Its...
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<title><![CDATA[ The values of Professor Liu ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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LAST WEEK, Goodwin Liu recounted his young daughter's delight when told that the family would be returning to Washington for an unusual, second confirmation hearing for her father.
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<title><![CDATA[ An urgency to the early years ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MANY PEOPLE, famous and not so famous, took time out last Wednesday to read to schoolchildren as part of the annual Read Across America Day , which encourages young people to read. They had their work cut out for them, because the sad reality is that two-thirds of students in this country can't meet...
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<title><![CDATA[ Why Egypt has to be the U.S. priority in the Middle East ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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With the horrific carnage in Libya , the flames of revolution burning in Yemen and Bahrain , and protests for political change in Jordan and Morocco , there's a danger that the United States and Europe may lose sight of what still has to be our highest priority in the region: helping the people of...
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<dc:creator>Robert Kagan and Michele Dunne</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ America's grim budget outlook ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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It is now well understood that one of the crucial drivers of the crises in the Middle East is the discontent of its youth. Arab countries have been unable or unwilling to provide jobs, education, opportunity and rights for their young and so, finally, they revolted. Is there any lesson in this st...
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<dc:creator>Fareed Zakaria</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ How Boehner is playing the Democrats ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Richard Nixon espoused what he called "the madman theory." It's a negotiating approach that induces the other side to believe you are capable of dangerously irrational actions and leads it to back down to avoid the wreckage your rage might let loose.
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<dc:creator>E.J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Right Turn ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In a speech in New Hampshire on Saturday, Mitt Romney defended the health-care plan he implemented as governor of Massachusetts.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Why Social Security is welfare ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In a recent column on the senior citizen lobby, I noted that Social Security is often "middle-class welfare" that bleeds the country. This offended many readers. In an e-mail, one snarled: "Social Security is not adding one penny to our national debt, you idiot." Others were more dignified: "Let'...
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<dc:creator>Robert J. Samuelson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Who's winning the fight over public-employee unions? ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Post asked pollsters, politicians and other experts who is winning and who is losing in the fight over public-employee unions. Below are responses from Scott Keeter, Jennifer Palmieri, Dan Schnur, Mike Lux, Ed Rogers, Howard Dean and David Bonior.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Behind the foreclosure crisis, big banks' reign of error ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The problem in the nation's housing market now isn't subprime lending. It's subpar lenders.
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<dc:creator>Dana Milbank</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Arab uprising spreads to Iraq ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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THE ARAB uprising has spread to Iraq, and in many ways the turmoil there resembles that of Egypt or Tunisia or Yemen. Thousands are taking to the streets on Fridays, only to be met by water cannon, tear gas and sometimes live ammunition. Dozens have been killed, and the government has taken...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Better not to think twice ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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WE TEND TO BE skeptical about calls to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, and about plans to redraw bureaucratic organizational charts. Too often, these are excuses not to tackle hard issues rather than panaceas for problems of fiscal sustainability and governmental efficiency. Yet a new report by...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Level the field on contracts ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY has dug itself a budgetary hole so deep that it will take major structural and systemic reforms for it to climb out. Even after severe spending cuts for the past several years, the county still has to slash $300 million this year to balance its $4.3 billion budget. The obvious...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Post Partisan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama is catching grief from theologically conservative African American pastors over his decision to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Obama "has openly offended the black church, and he didn't need to do it," said the Rev. Anthony Evans, who heads the National Black...
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<dc:creator>COLBERT I. KING</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obama's low-key strategy for the Middle East ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama has been so low-key in his pronouncements about events in Egypt and Libya that it's easy to miss the extent of the shift in U.S. strategy. In supporting the wave of change sweeping the Arab world, despite the wariness of traditional allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, Obama is...
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<dc:creator>David Ignatius</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The GOP's 2012 field is down to five ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point i...
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<dc:creator>George F. Will</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ As Pakistan battles extremism, it needs allies' patience and help ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Just days before her assassination , my wife, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto , wrote presciently of the war within Islam and the potential for a clash between Islam and the West: "There is an internal tension within Muslim society. The failure to resolve that tension peacefully and rationally threatens to...
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<dc:creator>Asif Ali Zardari</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ What Alzheimer's can't take ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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stillness welcomes me home - though home will never be the same. It has only been four hours since we lost Dad to Alzheimer's , but we had been losing him slowly, piece by piece, for a decade. The chill in the air elicits a thousand memories that lie, one over the other, like rings of a tree, or...
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<dc:creator>Mary Barry-Lipman</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ How America looks from Sudan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about proposed cuts in her budget, saying that more money was needed to improve the U.S. image overseas. But she didn't say at least two other things:
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<dc:creator>Mohammad Ali Salih</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Ted Leonsis, the owner of Verizon Center, the Washington Capitals and the Washington Wizards, could do D.C. taxpayers a huge favor by taking back the luxury suites that the late Abe Pollin gave the mayor and the D.C. Council.
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<dc:creator>Colbert I. King</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The March 4 Washington Forum column by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) referred to a Senate vote this week. The vote gave a "sense of the Senate," expressing support for the concept of balanced budgets. The vote was not on the specific proposal co-sponsored by Sens. Lee and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Note to Republicans: Cuts don't cut it ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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After slamming Democrats for not focusing on "jobs, jobs, jobs," Republicans have decided to ignore their own winning message in favor of "cuts, cuts, cuts." This is bad economics - and bad politics.
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<dc:creator>Eugene Robinson</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Amending the Constitution is not easy, nor should it be. That the Constitution has been amended just 27 times demonstrates that the process is reserved for only the most important circumstances. Our nation's critical need to balance the federal budget rises to that level.
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<dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator>
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A now-discredited report in Rolling Stone alleged that U.S. military officials in Afghanistan used inappropriate information operations techniques to try to persuade us, as well as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others, to support additional resources to train more Afghan troops.
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<dc:creator>Carl Levin and Jack Reed</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ An international treaty Congress should support ]]></title>
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About two years ago, while many Americans were watching President Obama's inauguration and my former colleagues in the Bush administration were cleaning out their offices, I was flying home from The Hague, where the International Court of Justice had just ruled against the United States in a case I...
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<dc:creator>John B. Bellinger III</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Moving forward with Internet freedom ]]></title>
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IN THE PAST 16 months, the Internet landscape has shifted dramatically. Sixteen months ago, there were no iPads. The number of Twitter users was orders of magnitude smaller. And scarcely 10 percent of phone users had smartphones.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ A better D.C. summer jobs program ]]></title>
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IT'S BEEN SOMETHING of an annual ritual in the District to hear horror stories about the city-run summer work program for youth. Program participants who worked didn't get paid, while others got money for not doing a lick of work. Ineligible people ended up enrolling even as city officials busted...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Seniority should not make teachers immune to layoffs ]]></title>
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IF, AS SEEMS likely, New York City must lay off thousands of teachers because of budget problems, Mayor Michael Bloomberg would like a say in who goes and who stays. Topping his list of those who should lose their jobs are 2,671 teachers who have been rated unsatisfactory over the past five years,...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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The March 2 editorial "Righting a judicial wrong" incorrectly asserted that Abdullah al-Kidd planned to travel to Saudi Arabia on a one-way, first-class ticket. Mr. Kidd purchased a round-trip, coach ticket.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ What Felipe Calderon wants from the U.S. ]]></title>
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon spoke mostly in excellent English during a visit to The Post on Thursday, but for one particular word he looked to his interpreter for help.
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<dc:creator>Fred Hiatt</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The last doughboy and the emergence of a great nation ]]></title>
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Over the past few decades, the obituaries of World War I veterans have come, according to historian Martin Gilbert, "like a muffled drum." With the recent passing of Frank Buckles - the last doughboy - Pershing's army has finally retired from the field. The drum is stilled and put away.
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<dc:creator>MICHAEL GERSON</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Iran might not be the big winner of Mideast uprisings ]]></title>
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The unprecedented revolts across the Middle East prompt an obvious question: Will Iran benefit from a new strategic order? From one perspective, it sure looks like it. Iran has allies in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria. Two longtime major American allies - Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali...
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<dc:creator>Dalia Dassa Kaye</dc:creator>
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Call me Number 1,279,090. That would be my place among the ranks of Twitter followers amassed by public meltdown artist Charlie Sheen in little more than 24 hours.
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<dc:creator>Ruth Marcus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ From Baghdad to Benghazi ]]></title>
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Voices around the world, from Europe to America to Libya, are calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi. Yet for bringing down Saddam Hussein, the United States has been denounced variously for aggression, deception, arrogance and imperialism.
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<dc:creator>Charles Krauthammer</dc:creator>
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AS THE FIGHTING in Libya worsened on Wednesday, the Obama administration was sending conflicting signals. Senior officials were rightly warning of the huge stakes for U.S. security and for the future of the Middle East - while at the same time seeming to back away from action that might contribute...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Jack Evans's ill-considered bid to make D.C. school decisions ]]></title>
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APPARENTLY, NEITHER his work as the Ward 2 D.C. Council member nor his job at a blue-chip law firm keeps Jack Evans (D) busy enough. How else to explain his desire to do Interim Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson's job? Mr. Evans's bid to force a personnel decision on Ms. Henderson is the very...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The right to even ugly free speech ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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THE BEAUTY OF the First Amendment is often most vibrantly expressed under the ugliest of circumstances. Such was the case Wednesday when the Supreme Court gave its blessing to the insensitive acts of a tiny church that has made a name for itself by mounting protests at the funerals of fallen...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ No glory for governors trying to do the right fiscal thing ]]></title>
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If you want to get national attention as a governor these days, don't try to be innovative about solving the problems you were elected to deal with - in education, transportation and health care. No, if you want ink and television time, just cut and cut and cut some more.
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<dc:creator>E.J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator>
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When President Obama sits down Thursday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, they might want to take heart about a part of Mexico that won't be on their agenda. A vibrant, peaceful area in southeastern Mexico underscores why America's neighbor has to win its fight against drug traffickers and why...
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<dc:creator>Edith R. Wilson</dc:creator>
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The mood in Iraq has shifted with the uprisings across the Arab world . Frustration over jobs, corruption and services inspired Iraqis to take to the streets last Friday and over the weekend , precipitating the resignations of at least three provincial governors and prompting calls for long-promised...
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<dc:creator>Daniel Serwer</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Lamar Smith: Immigration's taskmaster ]]></title>
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During Lamar Smith's first 18 years in Congress, the view from his office was of a parking lot. Now, in his 13th term, he looks out upon the Capitol dome. Seniority confers perquisites.
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<dc:creator>george f. will</dc:creator>
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Shahbaz Bhatti, who was assassinated outside his home in Pakistan last Thursday, came to visit a few of us at The Post one month ago. He was soft-spoken and matter-of-fact about the dangers he faced - and about his refusal, almost his inability, to trim his sails to lessen those dangers. The risks...
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<dc:creator>FRED HIATT</dc:creator>
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Texas's rising Latino population and GOP nativism could turn the state Democratic.
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<dc:creator>Harold Meyerson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Why the hesitance over keeping KIPP charter schools in Maryland? ]]></title>
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TEACHERS UNIONS are in the news, and not always in a flattering way. The stories can seem to vilify teachers unfairly, the unions say, and we agree. Most teachers work hard, sometimes to tranformative effect. And yet when their unions insist on defending bad teachers or undermining schools that...
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<title><![CDATA[ Mischief drives change in Virginia abortion rules ]]></title>
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PRINCIPLED OPPONENTS of abortion have options to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, including broadening access to contraception, promoting adoption and pushing abstinence-focused education. But Republicans in the Virginia General Assembly - with the help of two anti-abortion Democratic...
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<title><![CDATA[ High court should overturn Kidd v. Ashcroft ]]></title>
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ABDULLAH AL-KIDD was arrested at Dulles International Airport in 2003 after purchasing a one-way, first-class ticket to Saudi Arabia. Prosecutors in Idaho had linked Mr. Kidd, a U.S. citizen who converted to Islam, to a Saudi citizen in the United States who was alleged to be an operative for the...
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<title><![CDATA[ Post Partisan ]]></title>
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Fully a week after Libya's delegation to the United Nations first proposed that Western countries impose a no-fly zone in their country, the Obama administration finally has begun discussing it with other NATO governments. But most of the talk seems to be about why it can't happen.
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<dc:creator>JACKSON DIEHL</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Issa press aide scandal is like bad reality TV ]]></title>
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Journalists look bad in a kerfuffle about reporters' dealings with Rep. Darrell Issa.
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An editorial on Friday mistakenly described China's currency as overvalued, rather than undervalued, compared to the U.S. dollar.
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