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What don't they know?
Uncertainty is the backdrop for this campaign whose last month is being conducted over the shakiest terrain.
Supreme Court at stake
I REALLY HATE to bring it up. We already have two branches of our national government in full-scale meltdown. The president looks like a guy pleading before the parole board for early release. The Congress makes "dysfunctional" sound like a compliment.
Bring on Tina Fey
SO THIS is what they mean by the soft bigotry of low expectations. The weeklong drumbeat that led to the vice presidential debate suggested it would be a matchup between an airhead and a gaffe machine.
The tattered ideology of personal responsibility
IN THE GOSPEL according to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, "there are no atheists in foxholes and no ideologues in financial crises." Suddenly, we are all pragmatists, trying to dig our way out of the Wall Street rubble with whatever tools are at hand.
Bumping up against the limits of female bonding
Three weeks after the nomination of the Candidate from Nowhere, there is still a flood tide of women choking on the possibility that Hillary Clinton paved the way for Sarah Palin.
Sarah Zamboni clears the ice on working mothers
WHO WOULD have dreamed that a hockey mom could produce such a bounce? I didn't even think the puck was supposed to get off the ice.
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