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Virginia: Bob McDonnell Campaign a GOP Model for Success

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Jay Newton-Small - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - For all the talk of Republican chaos and infighting in this off-year election, the GOP in Virginia seems to have found the formula for unifying its party and delivering a winning message. If the polls are accurate, McDonnell could walk off with a double-digit victory over Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds in Tuesday's election — this in a state that only a year ago was declared to be trending blue. And across the Potomac, Washington is paying attention. "The independent electorate in our state has indicated in a very strong way that they believe the vision that Bob McDonnell is out there promoting is one that satisfies what they're feeling right now," says Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican.

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Karzai Declared President As Election Runoff Canceled

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Aryn Baker - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - If the Obama Administration had hoped that pressuring President Hamid Karzai into accepting a runoff election would strengthen the legitimacy of the resulting Afghan government, those hopes have now been dashed. Karzai has been declared the elected President of Afghanistan by election-poll officials, after they scrapped the planned second round of the vote. Independent Election Commission chairman Azizullah Lodin announced that Karzai was the victor during a news conference in Kabul on Monday. "We declare Hamid Karzai, which got the majority of votes in the first round and is the only candidate for the second round of the election in Afghanistan in 2009 ... is the elected President of Afghanistan," said Lodin. He went on to explain that the second round on Nov. 7 had been canceled to save money, for security reasons and to prevent further delays which could damage Afghanistan both politically and economically.

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Tehran Braces for a New Political Showdown

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Robin Wright - Nov. 02 (News Report) - As chairman of Iran's foreign affairs committee, he called for improving relations with the United States. And as Iran prepares to commemorate the event that he helped plan, Mirdamadi today is among more than 100 political prisoners awaiting the outcome of a mass show trial on charges of trying to subvert the revolution.

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Iran's Nuclear Response Creates a Quandary for Obama

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Andrew Lee Butters - Oct. 31 (News Analysis) - If the Obama Administration had hoped to get the bulk of Iran's current stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country under a new agreement for reprocessing abroad, those hopes are fading fast. The counter-proposal offered by Iran on Thursday contained such substantive revisions that Western officials are interpreting it as a rejection — at least of the aspect of the deal most important to the Western powers. More worrisome, perhaps, for the future of President Obama's engagement strategy may be the fact that although the deal contained some important concessions to Tehran, the possibility that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might embrace it sparked a storm of criticism from across the Iranian political spectrum.

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A Deal Finally Ends Honduras' Coup Crisis

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tim Padgett - Oct. 31 (News) - Related Photos Violence Erupts During Honduras Protests More Related •Clinton Helps Push Honduran Foes to Negotiations •Is the U.S. Softening Its Opposition to the Honduras Coup? •Why Obama Won’t Use the M-Word for Honduras’ CoupThe pact may well restore Zelaya to office before the country's Nov. 29 presidential elections. It may also salvage the Obama Administration's standing in the hemisphere.

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Karzai's Problem Brother: Drugs, Spies and Controversy

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Aryn Baker - Oct. 28 (News Analysis) - The claim that Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the payroll of the CIA for the past eight years, as reported in the New York Times on Tuesday, won't come as a surprise to most Afghans, who have long considered his brother, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, to be an American puppet.

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How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Got Their Way on Health Care

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Karen Tumulty, Michael Scherer - Oct. 22 (Special Report) - It's understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, considering the size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the first six months of this year alone, drug and biotech companies and their trade associations spent more than $110 million — that's about $609,000 a day — to influence lawmakers, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics. The drug industry's legion of registered lobbyists numbers 1,228, or 2.3 for every member of Congress. And its campaign contributions to current members of Waxman's committee have totaled $2.6 million over the past three years.

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How the Afghanistan Presidential Election Was Rigged

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Peter W. Galbraith - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country's presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle.

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Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Barbara Ehrenreich - Oct. 13 (Other) - The threats that we face, individually and collectively, won't be solved by wishful thinking, but by a clear-eyed commitment to taking action in the world

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Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By The Huffington Post News Editors - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - Nine of those so-called czars, it turned out, were subject to Senate confirmation, making them decidedly unlike the Russian monarchs. "The idea — that the Washington Post didn't even question it," Dunn says, still marveling at the decision.

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Democrats Brace for the Hardest Part of Health-Care Reform

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Karen Tumulty - Oct. 05 (News Analysis) - With the passage of health-care-reform legislation out of the Senate Finance Committee expected this week, the debate moves into a new and delicate stage. It is one that will test the legislative and political skills of Senate majority leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a scale that no congressional leadership team has had to face in at least four decades. Whether they are up to the challenge will determine not only the fate of the legislation but also, if it passes, whether it will live up to the promises President Obama has made regarding his most ambitious domestic initiative.

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Bill Frist on Health Bill: I’d Vote For It

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Karen Tumulty - Oct. 02 (News Report) - Frist also faults some in his own party for injecting alarmism into the debate. "Clearly, the death panels and public plan arguments have been overblown," he says. Frist noted that Republicans themselves voted for a Medicare prescription drug bill that would have established a version of a public plan--with the government negotiating directly with drug companies--if private-sector competition had failed to materialize.

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Exclusive Interview: Gaddafi on Obama, Israel and Chatting with Iran

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:30:26 -0700

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5 Things Cities Can Learn from Burning Man

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Craig Duff, Larry Harvey - Sep. 19 (Interview) - Burning Man's Larry Harvey says the city the project creates in the desert every year has done some radical things other cities should try.

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Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By David Von Drehle - Sep. 17 (Special Report) - What's this rich and talented man afraid of? He is afraid of one-world government, which will turn once proud America into another France. He is afraid that Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" — which doesn't mean, he hastens to add, that he actually thinks "Obama doesn't like white people." He is afraid that both Democrats and Republicans in Washington are deeply corrupt and that their corruption is spreading like a plague. He used to be afraid that hypocritical Republicans in the Bush Administration were killing capitalism and gutting liberty, but now he is afraid that all-too-sincere leftists in the Obama Administration are plotting the same. On a slow news day, Beck fears that the Rockefeller family installed communist and fascist symbols in the public artwork of Rockefeller Center. One of his Fox News Channel colleagues, Shepard Smith, has jokingly called Beck's studio the "fear chamber." Beck countered that he preferred "doom room."

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The Financial Crisis After One Year: Where Are They Now?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By John Curran - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - Today the Lehman Brothers building in Manhattan carries the name of Britain's Barclays bank, the stock market is up more than 40% from its lows, and the ailing automotive industry has registered a couple of months of healthy growth. But while talk of economic recovery fills the air there's quiet acknowledgement that the economy is still on life support. Without hundreds of billions of dollars of government assistance we don't know quite where the economy would be, but we do know it would be worse. Even with it, economists aren't talking about a V-shaped recovery, but possibly of a double-dip, the dreaded W.

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Walmart's Project Impact: A Move to Crush Competition

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Sean Gregory - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1.

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After Obama's Speech, It's Back to Wooing the Skeptics

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Jay Newton-Small - Sep. 11 (Opinion) - No one in the nation's capital is naive enough to think that President Barack Obama's address before Congress Wednesday evening was somehow, in one fell swoop, going to overcome all the opposition to health-care reform, the power of his rhetoric winning over skeptics like a latter-day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But after the President's impassioned, 47-minute speech drew thunderous applause and improved poll ratings, even some of the most jaded Democrats may have allowed themselves to think that, maybe, Obama's oratory really was a "game changer," as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put it.

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It Gets Worse

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Joe Klein - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Could I just say that the intensity of this getting pretty scary...and dangerous? We are heading toward a cliff and the usual brakes of civil discourse are not working. Indeed, the Republicans have the pedal to the metal

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After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Jeff Israely - Aug. 27 (News Report) - "Here in Rome Ted Kennedy is nobody. He's a legend with his own constituency," says the Vatican official. "If he had influence in the past it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston and that eventually disappeared too."

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Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Bryan Walsh - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - The U.S. agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. But it does so at a high cost to the environment, animals and humans. Those hidden prices are the creeping erosion of our fertile farmland, cages for egg-laying chickens so packed that the birds can't even raise their wings and the scary rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria among farm animals. Add to the price tag the acceleration of global warming — our energy-intensive food system uses 19% of U.S. fossil fuels, more than any other sector of the economy.

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The Secret Life of Tom Daschle, Moonlighting For The Insurance Industry

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Michael Scherer - Aug. 17 (Special Report) - This is how Washington really works: Even a top liberal advocate for taking a strong stand against the insurance industry takes money behind the scenes from the insurance industry.

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Health-Insurance Exchanges: How They Would Work

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Kate Pickert - Aug. 13 (News Analysis) - It's a fairly safe bet that the people telling pollsters they're satisfied with their health insurance or who are warning politicians to keep their hands off the current health-care system have never had to buy a health-insurance policy on the open market. After all, the conditions for individuals who do have to fend for themselves in search of health insurance couldn't be much worse than they are now. As one-person (or one-family) risk pools, they have no leverage, premiums are often prohibitively expensive, choice is usually limited and comparing available plans — in the event that more than one exists — is nearly impossible. That problem is at the root of much of what health-care reform is supposed to change, and one of the primary weapons intended to do that is a poorly understood, often overlooked facet of the various proposals that is dubbed the health-insurance exchange.

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GOP at War With Itself in Florida Senate Race

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - Aug. 12 (News Report) - Over the next 14 months, as Rubio introduces himself to the state, this race is likely to evolve from David and Goliath into a struggle for the party's soul, with a moderate populist who celebrated the stimulus with Obama at a Fort Myers rally and a conservative stalwart who opposes almost everything Obama has done.

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Obama's Mexico Mission: Keep Guns in el Norte

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Ioan Grillo - Aug. 10 (News Report) - This traffic of heavy weaponry from American gun stores to Mexican drug cartels will once again feature in talks between the U.S. and Mexico when President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón meet at a North American summit in Guadalajara on Aug. 9 and Aug. 10.

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