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• Anti-Statism in America

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  Anyone who has followed closely the debate over national health insurance has probably noticed some peculiar inconsistencies in Americans’ attitudes toward the legislation. A Pew Poll released on October 8 found “steady support” for specific elements of the health care plan, including the public alternative to ...
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• John Dean to speak at Chapman Wednesday

  
  College Life OC — Authority: 480
  Author-attorney John Dean. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons John Dean, the attorney who helped bring down the Nixon Administration when he cooperated with investigators looking into a political break-in at the Watergate complex, will give a talk titled, “Watergate: The Final Chapter,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, ...
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• Outrageous Plans, Richard Nixon and The Internet…

  
  LinkMachineGo — Authority: 472
  [internet] Richard Nixon’s Outrageous Plan That Didn’t Happen — The Internet … (spotted in The Book Of Lists #2 from 1980) …
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• Literary Vices, with Rudolph Delson: Richard Nixon’s ‘Six Crises’

  
  The Awl — Authority: 641
  Sarah Palin’s memoirs will be released next week! To prepare, Rudolph Delson is reviewing the American vice presidential literary canon . If you publish a memoir before the age of fifty (as Richard Nixon did in 1962, as Sarah Palin will in 2009), you must live the rest of your life in rivalry with it. Because ...
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• Frost/Nixon

  
  The Art Neuro Weblog — Authority: 126
  Re-Interviewing History One of the peculiar things about historic films is how they round in on people who existed and give them a new face. Inevitably the new faces are more charismatic than the originals, while certain facts get re-written for dramatic effect. It’s he nature of the beast. I actually remember ...
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• 20 Years Later: The Berlin Wall Remembered In Magazine Covers

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 801
  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that not only reshaped Europe and redefined international relations, but one that also represented a very specific period of news coverage. Earlier, our own Glynnis MacNicol called  Peter Jennings ‘ television coverage “such a quick and ...
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• Salon on Johnny Cash and Ira Hayes

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 140
  From Salon : In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President Richard Nixon in the White House’s Blue Room. As a horde of media huddled a few feet away, the country music superstar had come to discuss prison reform with the self-anointed leader of America’s “silent majority.” “Johnny, would you be ...
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• We’re live from Falcons (and it’s time to kick around Skins)

  
  Jeff Schultz — Authority: 606
  Dan Snyder is smiling. Why? Because the game hasnt started yet. Even at a relatively pedestrian-looking 4-3, the Falcons have succeeded in one area this season: They’ve won the games they should win. Their three losses this season have all come on the road and all against good-to-great teams: New England, Dallas, ...
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• Quote of the Day - John Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon

  
  The Unemployment Cafe — Authority: 117
  "Many conservatives, particularly those who are clearly authoritarians, are not aware of their illogical, contradictory, and hypocritical thinking. If made cognizant of it, they either rationalize it away, neglect to care, or attack those who reveal their human weaknesses. Because such thinking seems to be a reality ...
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• Obama has a near "Brownie moment"

  
  Dead Reckoning — Authority: 118
  We all remember former President George W. Bush, patting his hapless Director of FEMA on the shoulder and saying, “You are doing a heck of job, Brownie.” In that moment, more than anything else that had transpired, he doomed his Presidency. People were prepared to give him a lot of slack on his war in Iraq ...
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• Why is the president immune from prosecution in Pakistan?

  
  Chowrangi — Authority: 469
  According to a news item, the most popular lawyer Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan reportedly said that the presi...
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• Historical Image of the Day

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 571
  Richard Nixon on the cover of Esquire, May 1968. One of the legendary George Lois covers for that magazine.
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• Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.

  
  2parse — Authority: 127
  Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer , and other right wingers have begun to converge on a unified theory of Obama – a systematic critique of who he is, what he stands for, and what he is trying to do. Part of this theory – one of the core themes being developed – is that ...
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• How Two Elections Changed America

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 610
  Two clandestine operations during hard-fought presidential elections of the past half century shaped the modern American political era, but they remain little known to the general public and mostly ignored by historians. One unfolded in the weeks before Election 1968 and the other over a full year before Election ...
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• Naxos Releases A New Recording of John Adams’ Nixon In China

  
  Naxos Blog — Authority: 117
  On October 27, Naxos released John Adams’ 1987 masterwork Nixon in China , performed at Opera Colorado in June of 2008. This is the first new recording of the Adams opera since the original cast recording was released in 1987. Conducted by Marin Alsop , Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony and ...
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• What Would Republican Health Care Reform Look Like?

  
  2parse — Authority: 127
  Yesterday, the Republicans released their health care plan. However, as Ezra Klein points out it isn’t an actual plan to fix health care as much as a plan to get people to stop asking them what their plan is : The bill is framed in terms of Republican attacks on the Democratic bill, not in terms of its own aims ...
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• November 5 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 580
  On November 5: 1605   Gunpowder Plot : A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet , a justice of the peace, found Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords. 1850   Ella Wheeler Wilcox , American author and poet, was born. ...
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• Who lets the First Dog out? Often, Dale Haney

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 527
  You don’t know the face, but you may know the leg: A khaki-clad hunk of it often shows up — generally from the knee down — in photographs of Bo Obama. The leg belongs to Dale Haney, who, when the First Family is too busy to walk the dog, assumes the duty. As a keeper of the White House grounds for nearly 40 ...
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• Former Obama Campaign Chief Plouffe Takes More Shots at Fox

  
  Minor Ripper — Authority: 133
  Whats happening in real time right now is nothing short of a proxy war between Rupert Murdoch and Barack Obama. Obama, unlike other liberals before him has chosen to engage the fight. The ensuing battle is playing out before us with real electoral stakes. The generals in this war are FOX News Chief Roger Ailes ...
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• How Obamas Health Reform Push Compares to his Predecessors

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  As President Obama leans into the Sisyphean boulder of health care reform, he inches forward in the footsteps of several predecessors. No fewer than four U.S. presidents in the past century have tried and failed to enact universal health care legislation. To be sure, Obama has had help along the way. And as the ...
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