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Bristol Palin won’t appear on Mo. abstinence panel

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 29th, 2011 5:33 am by HL

Bristol Palin won’t appear on Mo. abstinence panel
ST. LOUIS — Washington University in St. Louis says Bristol Palin won’t be speaking there next month after all.

GOP senator favors cutting US aid to Israel
WASHINGTON — Tea party-backed Republican Sen. Rand Paul favors cutting U.S. aid to Israel as part of a deficit-driven effort to slash government spending by $500 billion this year, drawing criticism from Democrats and Republicans who argue the U.S. must be unwavering in its support for the longtime…

The Fix: A bipartisan comeback . . . and its prognosis
President Obama isn’t the only one getting a boost in his image.

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Obama Reframes His Leadership

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 29th, 2011 5:31 am by HL

Obama Reframes His Leadership
Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
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Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?
Timothy Snyder, NY Review of Books
As we recall the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, sixty-six years ago today, we might ask: who was worse, Hitler or Stalin?In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to see both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as the greatest of evils. Hitler was worse, because his regime propagated the unprecedented horror of the Holocaust, the attempt to eradicate an entire people on racial grounds. Yet Stalin was also worse, because his regime killed far, far more people—tens of millions, it was often claimed—in the…