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October 19, 2007, 1:00am

Conservative lawmakers in the House of Representatives sided with President Bush yesterday in denying millions of children the opportunity to receive health insurance.

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October 16, 2007, 1:00am

Conservatives on Capitol Hill are gearing up for a fight this week over proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would restore court oversight to the administration’s wiretapping program.

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October 16, 2007, 1:00am

There are new signs that an American military in distress is reshaping itself to cope with the destructive fallout of Iraq… Read more »

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October 16, 2007, 1:00am

We recently learned from Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal that once again we’ve returned to the America that gave us the Charleston, the bob haircut, and Lucky Lindbergh: “IRS data,” he writes, “go back only to 1986, but … Read more »

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October 15, 2007, 1:00am

Last Friday, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez blasted the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war, calling it a “nightmare with no end in sight.”

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October 15, 2007, 1:00am

“BUSH lies” doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves. Ten days ago The Times unearthed yet another round of secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture.

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October 15, 2007, 1:00am

On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the … Read more »

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October 14, 2007, 1:00am

As Democratic lawmakers try to repair a deeply flawed bill on electronic eavesdropping, the White House is pumping out the same fog of fear and disinformation it used to push the bill through Congress this summer.

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October 12, 2007, 1:00am

Thank goodness for whistle-blowers, those public servants who think Americans should know the harm that is being inflicted in our name.
Some of those high-minded officials recently revealed to The New York Times that the Bush administration has abandoned its … Read more »

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October 11, 2007, 1:00am

LIKE old clothes, the language of the old Cold War is comfortable, but not presentable. The “West” is not western. “Eastern” Europe is no longer eastern; central Europe is no longer central.

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