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John R. Bohrer: Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates

Historian of 1960s American politics

The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think. The value of burnishing centrist credentials should not be discounted. Despite what Orrin Hatch is saying on Hardball, the Democrats have a sizable moderate contingent and it is important to keep them happy and influential.

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"Exit Strategy" Might Not Be What You Mean

Lorelei Kelly, 09.30.2009

Director, New Strategic Security Initiative

If we want to see this president succeed, a vocabulary shift is vital. The more we use leftover framing and messaging rhetoric from the Iraq War, the easier we make it for the right wing to do the same.

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Does the Brotherhood of Fame Endow You With a Lifetime Exemption From Accountability?

Eve Ensler, 09.30.2009

Author of The Vagina Monologues

No one is arguing the genius of Roman Polanski, or even the pain and tragedy of his difficult life. But in the end, that has nothing to do with the crime he committed.

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Mao Takes Manhattan: Empire State Building Goes Red and Yellow for China

David Flumenbaum, 09.30.2009

Managing Blog Editor

Tonight, the Empire State Building will illumine its spire with red and yellow lights in honor of China. While this isn't the first time it's gone red and yellow, it's the first time it's been done for Mao.

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Taking Control of Our Energy Future

John Kerry, 09.30.2009

U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

Today, Senator Boxer and I introduced our "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" that aims to put Americans back in charge of our energy future and our security.

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Wonder Why Middle America Doesn't Trust Hollywood Liberals? Three Words: Weinstein and Polanski

Keli Goff, 09.30.2009

Author, commentator and contributor to TheLoop21.com

When people like Mr. Harvey Weinstein paint the former president as harmful to Americans but Roman Polanski as merely misunderstood, they are proving every anti-Hollywood conservative's point for them.

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That's Not the News: Clinton's "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy"

Susan Older, 09.30.2009

Founding editor of USA Today

Although I did find it interesting to hear Clinton's take on whether Obama has been the object of a right-wing conspiracy, I can tell you one thing: That most certainly was not the news story in that interview.

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A Remix Manifesto for Our New Copyright Czar

Jonathan Melber, 09.30.2009

Co-author of ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (And Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career

Obama has appointed the first U.S. copyright czar. Our profoundly broken copyright laws, rather than fostering creativity, as they were originally intended, now inhibit it at every turn.

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The Iran and Obama Dance

Shirin Sadeghi, 09.30.2009

Middle East Consultant and former Journalist for the BBC and Al Jazeera

It's not Obama's fault that Iraq and Afghanistan happened, but it will be his fault if he rushes into a threat-laden, pseudo-engagement with Iran at this historical crossroads in US-Iran relations.

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All the President's Values

Drew Westen, 09.30.2009

Psychologist and neuroscientist; Emory University Professor

What makes the president's actions during the health care debate disturbing is their common thread: If he has values, he doesn't want to talk about them, and it's hard to find many he isn't willing to give up.

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A Vietnam Book That Haunts the US in Afghanistan

Stephen Schlesinger, 09.30.2009

Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation

Do we have the necessary sobriety, humbleness and wisdom in our current times in Washington to weigh appropriately our next moves on Afghanistan?

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Eyeless in Gaza: Obama's Palestine Flop

Michael Brenner, 09.30.2009

Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations

Obama is a man of personal audacity, but little courage. His instinctive avoidance of head-on confrontations will leave him unprepared, psychologically and politically, for the requisite arm twisting of Israel.

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Open Letter to Sen. Blanche Lincoln

Dylan Loewe, 09.30.2009

Op-ed contributor for The Guardian

During your 2010 campaign, you are going to be accused of voting for a socialist government takeover of health care, regardless of whether or not you support the public option. That frees you to vote your conscience.

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Lots of Content Is Good for Democracy

Charles Warner, 09.30.2009

Charles Warner is an active blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com and teaches at The New School.

The Internet's explosive growth has led to such a proliferation of content that it is now virtually infinite. To say that "content is king" in today's world is like saying "a grain of sand is precious."

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Prediction Impossible: How Protecting Consumers Is Like Protecting the Environment

Harry Moroz, 09.30.2009

Drum Major Institute for Public Policy

By using consumer well-being as a first principal, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency will consider the social costs of financial innovations.

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The Red Rock Wilderness Act: Our Chance to Be Present at the Creation

Robert Redford, 09.30.2009

Actor, Director, and Environmental Activist

For the first time, the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest, and Public Lands will consider a bill designed to protect millions of acres of spectacular Utah lands as wilderness.

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Where Are the Screaming Liberals?

Richard Zombeck, 09.30.2009

See more at www.shitheadery.com

I've always been intrigued at the left's inability to fight. That when the right gets loud and mean, the left poo-poos them as if they'll just go away or cowers in the face of adversity.

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Alan Grayson's Candor and Honesty Irks GOP Obstructionists... Again

Howie Klein, 09.30.2009

Down With Tyranny.

Grayson came to Congress promising to be a tribune for working Florida families. What drives Republicans mad is that he has been exactly that.

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A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

Andy Worthington, 09.30.2009

Journalist and author of "The Guantanamo Files"

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.

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