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NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Is TV’s Iron Woman
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2011 Comment (3)At a time in her life when many of her contemporaries are trading in their press passes for a ticket to retirement’s easy street, NBC’s ageless whirlwind, Andrea Mitchell, is stepping it up. The network’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, who also hosts the hour-long Andrea Mitchell Reports daily on MSNBC, has been in her element during the Middle East crisis, starting many mornings at 7 on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and NBC’s Today, and signing off after 9 p.m. following her NBC Nightly News hit and perhaps an appearance on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show. “These are ridiculous hours,” she says, “but I guess I just love what I do.”
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Wisconsin Budget Crisis Is Crying for Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook March 4, 2011 Comment (3)Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.
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Jobs Report Buoys Obama's Re-election Chances
Tweet Share on Facebook March 4, 2011 Comment (2)President Obama's re-election just got a little easier with the Labor Department's Friday report that the economy created 192,000 jobs last month, helping to nudge the unemployment rate to just below 9 percent.
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5 Ways Feminism Has Ruined America
Tweet Share on Facebook March 4, 2011 Comment (69)With the debate of feminism revived by Sarah Palin's recent claim that she's one of them, Phyllis Schlafly is jumping in with a new book that suggests the 1960s "women's revolution" movement is ruining women and the country. Written with her niece Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism provides readers with a new view of women in America.
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Lou Dobbs Back on TV With Fox Show
Tweet Share on Facebook March 3, 2011 Comment (13)Lou Dobbs, the outspoken TV news star who quit CNN last year to join Fox, is finally getting his own show on the Fox Business Network. His show will be called Lou Dobbs Tonight and kicks off in less than two weeks.[See a slide show of the 10 Best Cities to Find a Job.]
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1 in 8 Top Hill Aides Were Lobbyists
Tweet Share on Facebook March 3, 2011 CommentWashington's revolving door between Congress and lobbying firm clogged K Street is whipping around at a much faster pace. According to a new probe revealed today, some one in eight top House and Senate aides used to lobby.
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Mike Huckabee, Duck Hunter
Tweet Share on Facebook March 2, 2011 CommentLikely GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee used to duck hunt quite a lot when he was governor of Arkansas. “I have gone as much as 40 days out of a 60-day season,” he tells our Suzi Parker. But now the Fox News and Citadel Media Networks radio star says he travels too much to muck around in Arkansas swamps, home to some of the South’s best waterfowling. This year he’s been only six times—once with country singer Aaron Tippin. His gun of choice? A Benelli Super Black Eagle, 12 gauge, left-handed model. The shells: three-inch Remington Wingmaster HDs.
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Donald Rumsfeld Fires Back to Bob Woodward Over Book Review
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (51)In what’s turning into an epic battle between two of Washington’s major players and authors, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s office today issued a pointed slap-down of Washington Post editor and author Bob Woodward’s point-by-point criticism of Rumsfeld’s book, Known and Unknown, which he dubbed “one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others.”
In a new posting today on Facebook, Keith Urbahn, Rumsfeld’s chief of staff, dismissed Woodward’s charges and raised old questions about how Woodward, when working on a prior book, was able to talk to former CIA Director Bill Casey when he was reported to be nearly comatose at the time. The issue has dogged Woodward, dubbed by his foes like Rush Limbaugh as “Mortuary Bob.”
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8 Republican Attacks The Democrats Fear Most
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (2)The Democratic Party has finished licking its wounds from the 2010 midterm elections and is now working to build up a war chest to fight Republican efforts to stop President Obama's agenda, according to a new fundraising letter from party boss Tim Kaine.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski Still a Foreign Policy Force
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2011 Comment (3)He’s been out of power for over 30 years, but former Carter-era national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is still as active and relevant as when he was brokering the Camp David Peace Accords. Like the globe-trotting former President Carter, in fact, Brzezinski has established himself as an influential post-White House foreign policy adviser, working with Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama officials on several issues. Now he is 83, and we asked him why he still feels the need to play a role in world affairs. “In my own life, what formed me was World War II and the realization of how far humanity can go in doing wrong things to itself, people doing it to other people,” says the Polish-born Brzezinski. “I’ve always had this sense that human affairs requires some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action, and that’s what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events,” he says. Zbig, as he was known to reporters during the 1970s, says it’s best to have a position of power, which he lost when Carter lost to Reagan in 1980. “There was no opportunity of seizing power permanently when I was leaving,” he jokes.
