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Africa’s Last, Next War
Jason McLure 10/8/2009 12:00:00 AM
Arab horsemen toting Kalashnikovs provided by the Sudanese government thunder into a town. Women are raped in their huts. Men are gunned down as they flee for the bush, and children are packed off on the back of the raiders' horses while stolen cattle are herded away to be sold.
The Jackass-Reduction Plan
Jonathan Alter 9/19/2009 12:00:00 AM
It's enough to make me nostalgic for Jackass, the MTV show of a decade ago. At least the yokels performing those stupid stunts were trying to hurt themselves, not act like jerks toward someone else. Instead we're getting "Vote for Joe Wilson! He heckled the president!" The money is pouring in to the South Carolina congressman's campaign. Collegiate right-wing jackasses are being inspired to follow the path John Belushi's Bluto trod from Animal House to the Senate. Can the republic be saved from boorish fools? The good news is I've got a jackass-reduction plan ready for review. And it could really work.
All for Nothing
Ron Moreau 9/9/2009 12:00:00 AM
Relations are quickly fraying between Kabul and its allies over what appears to be President Hamid Karzai's outright election theft. The Obama administration has told him not to declare victory, the U.N.-sponsored Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has called for a partial recount, and good-government watchers are professing disappointment. Karzai is hardly the first president to want a victory badly enough to cheat. But the confounding thing is that he hardly needed to: he would have won legitimately even if he hadn't.
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Peach State Piffle
Lori Robertson 11/21/2008 12:00:00 AM
* Chambliss claims in an ad that Martin would work to raise taxes on "nearly every small business in Georgia." In fact, only around 2.4 percent of small businesses nationally earn enough to be affected by the tax plan Martin favors.
OPINION
We Say We Want A Revolution
Markos Moulitsas 10/25/2008 12:00:00 AM
On Nov. 4, Barack Obama will be elected as the next president of the United States. The real excitement won't come from watching that foregone conclusion come to pass. No, the big question is, will Democrats nationwide simply "win" the night—or will they deliver an electoral drubbing so thorough that it signals the utter rejection of conservative ideology and kills the notion that America is a "center-right" country? Here are the key face-offs:
THE LAST WORD
The Final Repudiation
George F. Will
In a Presidential contest replete with novelties, none was more significant than this: A candidate's campaign—for his party's nomination, then for the presidency—was itself virtually the entire validation of his candidacy. Voters have endorsed Barack Obama's audacious—but not, they have said, presumptuous—proposition, which was: The skill, tenacity, strategic vision and tactical nimbleness of my campaign is proof that I am presidential timber.