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Santorum and the Iowa losers
After the Iowa caucuses one year, I recall, every candidate in the field went before TV cameras to proclaim the outcome a victory for him. This time, the claims were not quite so universal. But it seems clear that there was only one winner last night:...Tags: Republican Party, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Elections
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The charm of holiday airline travel
No, that headline is not meant sarcastically. Yes, flying this time of year can be a crowded, delay-ridden hassle whose cost has risen significantly. Going through airport security is an intrusion that affects the law-abiding far more than it does...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Holidays, Holiday Vacations, Travel
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Kim Jong Il's unlikely life and death
The most surprising element of Kim Jong Il's death is that it apparently was due to natural causes and that it came 17 years after he took office. Back then, no one expected "the Dear Leader" and his regime to survive.
The death of his father, Kim Il...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, China, Union (McHenry, Illinois), North Korea, Kim Jong Il
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Needle exchange, HIV, and the feds
Going back to the 1980s, the federal government has been spending money to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS. For most of that time, the effort excluded state and local programs to provide drug users with clean syringes -- even though study after study...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Republican Party, Diseases and Illnesses, AIDS, Viral Diseases and Infections
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The Plan B myth
Much of the opposition to the FDA's proposed over-the-counter sale of Plan B came from fear that it would encourage teenagers to have sex and endanger the health of adolescent girls. But one of the grounds for opposition is that it's the moral...Tags: Abortion, Plan B (drug), Drugs and Medicines, Gynecology, Food and Drug Administration
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Rethinking tattoos
There are many trends I have no trouble understanding even if I don't participate in them, from Facebook to sushi. But one has always baffled me: tattoos. They used to be rare and they're now common across all races and classes. Some 40 percent of...Tags: Tattoo Removal, Facebook, The Washington Post
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Newt Gingrich's biggest hero: himself
When I was a young journalist freelancing for The Washington Monthly, an iconoclastic "neo-liberal" publication that specialized in applying the same scrutiny to liberal schemes as it did to conservative ones, the legendary editor Charlie Peters told me,...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Newt Gingrich, Elections, Mitt Romney
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Why is Newt better than Mitt?
The anybody-but-Romney segment of the Republican party is the main reason one alternative candidate after another keeps rising to the fore, the latest being Newt Gingrich. This faction dislikes and distrusts Mitt because he has abandoned so many liberal...Tags: Newt Gingrich, Libyan Civil War (2011), Barack Obama
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Hillary for Veep?
With a tough re-election battle looming, President Obama and his aides are said to be considering "the Great Switcheroo" -- making Hillary Clinton Obama's running mate and sending Joe Biden to run the Department of State. Washington Post legend Bob...Tags: Democratic Party, Elections, White House, Hillary Clinton, David Axelrod
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Can TSA change make Obama a shoe-in?
With unemployment high, consumer confidence battered and the general outlook as grim as a Cormac McCarthy novel, Barack Obama may have virtually no chance of victory in 2012. Or so I thought until his Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, offered a...Tags: Republican National Conventions, Consumer Confidence, Transportation Security Administration, Cormac McCarthy, Osama bin Laden
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Dick Cheney misremembers the Iraq war
In his new memoir, Dick Cheney presents himself as someone who understood that the 9/11 attacks changed the world. Those attacks, he says, made it clear: "We had to do everything possible to be sure they (the terrorists) never got their hands on weapons...Tags: Wars and Interventions, International Atomic Energy Agency, Dick Cheney, Iraq War (2003-2011), Weaponry
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Ben Bernanke, out of options
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used his annual speech in Jackson Hole to indicate he may take more steps to stimulate growth. But at this point, neither he nor anyone else can really expect it to make much difference.
The Fed has already gone...Tags: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke
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