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November 24, 2009 7:45 PM

CBO Finds That Cap And Trade Will Work - In The Long Term

(Extreme Ice Survey)
If you thought the last 10 months of debate over health care reform was fun, you're in for endless yuks once the United States Senate gets around to considering cap and trade.

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November 23, 2009 7:29 PM

Dems Already Done In By Buyers' Remorse?

(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Whenever the Republicans fear that the political gods are aligned against them, they can always find cheer in knowing that at least they are not the Democrats.

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November 20, 2009 7:09 PM

Geithner To Retire His Role As Pinata?

(AP )
Meet Tim Geithner, the Obama administration's human piņata. Though maybe for not much longer.

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November 19, 2009 3:49 PM

Pot-Kettle-Black?

(CBS/ AP)
A majority of Republican voters believe that ACORN helped Barack Obama steal the 2008 election for president.

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November 18, 2009 7:17 PM

The Southern Health Conundrum

With the nation's Republican governors gathered in Austin this week for their annual meeting, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour offered his spin on current events to Bob Schieffer.

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November 17, 2009 9:26 PM

Disclosure Row Over White House Coverage

Believe me, there's nothing like a journalistic cat fight to get the blood flowing.

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November 17, 2009 2:48 PM

Rage Nation 2.0

(AP )
In 1964, the Columbia University historian, Richard Hofstadter, described in a magazine piece the "paranoid style in American politics" (a theme he later expanded in a book on the same topic).

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November 16, 2009 7:06 PM

The Palin Conundrum For Miffed Romney

(AP)
A former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney had every right to be ticked off after the New England Patriots disasterous decision Sunday night not to punt on fourth down with the ball on the Colts' 28-yard line.

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November 15, 2009 2:37 AM

Firing A Shot Across Obama's Bow

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
The usual crowd of armchair patriots is having a collective fit over President Obama's decision to greet Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko with a bow.

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November 12, 2009 6:33 PM

Pot Legalization: Already A Moot Point?

(KGPE)
Chalk it up to happenstance but as Judge James Gray and the Drug Free America Foundation's David Evans concluded their CBS News.com debate on pot legalization, the AMA urged the federal government to review its decades-old classification of marijuana.

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