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Remembering Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, 20 Years Later
Tweet Share on Facebook October 31, 2011 Comment (17)Thunder, lightning, and rain came from Sens. Alan Simpson, Orrin Hatch and Arlen Specter—and oh, what a specter it was 20 Octobers ago when Clarence Thomas was not facing the nation as the Judiciary Committee weighed his Supreme Court nomination. Instead, he was hiding, refusing to listen to Anita Hill, a lawyer who worked for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, give specific example after specific example of his sexual harassment and pornographic references on the job. If her allegations were true (and they rang true to us out on the West Coast) then supposedly he would be out of the plum treat of a court seat.
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Obama Adept Abroad, Inept at Home
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2011 Comment (15)Former President George W. Bush, send a Texas-size thank you note to POTUS—Barack Obama just saved your neck by ending the war in Iraq, which you waged with no provocation.
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King Joins Jefferson and Lincoln on the National Mall
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (7)A reason to be glad: the memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is done at last, dedicated Sunday in the presence of the first black president and at least one man by his side the day he died in 1968: Jesse Jackson, Sr.
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Cheney, Brokaw, Kissinger and Others Weigh in on Washington's Problems
Tweet Share on Facebook October 7, 2011 Comment (4)In Washington, October is when the great marketplace of ideas comes out to play—and their authors are not far behind. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, author of a new memoir, is out and about waging his war of words; as are many others, including Tom Brokaw and Henry Kissinger, taking part in this autumn ritual.
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The 2012 GOP Field Is Like a High School Class
Tweet Share on Facebook October 3, 2011 Comment (16)They're all Republicans to me, the crowd running for president in 2012, but somehow they take us straight back to school. From A for apple polisher to B for bully, and so on.
