On Native GroundIRAN'S Future Will Be Decided by Iranians

This week, second term Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared for six days, leaving the state without a chief executive who could make decisions in an emergency. His Republican lieutenant governor didn't know where he was, and had not been given any authority to make decisions in his absence.

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MomentumTHE Odd Case of the Missing Iranian Revolution

The massive public protests have ended in Iran. When unarmed protesters confront water cannons, tear gas and gunfire, they usually lose.

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Open thread for night owls: New energy is transforming cities into centers of progressive innovation

Sarah van Gelder at Yes! magazine writes New energy is transforming our cities into hotbeds of democracy and progressive innovation. If you've been looking to the federal government for action on big challenges such as poverty, climate change, and immigration, this has been a devastating decade.

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Make My DayONCE More to the Finish Line, Dear Friends

It isn't even unusual that the Republican National Committee sent to its base a loaded questionnaire with blatantly leading and highly biased questions. But it is unusual that the party that claims to ally itself with homeland security has not-so-subtly attacked the firefighters and police who responded to 9/11.

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On Native GroundTHE Stimulus Worked. Let's have More.

In August of 1983, Benigno Aquino, an opponent of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, returned home from three years in exile. He didn't even make it into town - he was shot and killed at the airport.

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First PersonINTERN to the Lion

Gold star mom antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan wears a t-shirt that says "2,245 Dead. How many more?" to President Bush's State of the Union address in 2006 and gets arrested.

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On Native GroundPETER Galbraith Pays the Price for Telling the Truth About Afghan Elections

It might have been too much to hope for, but wasn't the election of President Barack Obama supposed to mark a watershed in America? Wasn't it supposed to be another important step toward a post-racial America, where old hatreds would be consigned to the dustbin of history? Instead, since Obama's election, we've seen a resurgence of all the worst elements of American politics. And people who point out that racism and hatred are poisoning our political dialogue are getting attacked in the corporate media.

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Market MoverTHE Oil and Gas Monster that Ate America

When we finally get far enough down the road on health care reform, it will become clear that a driving force in the intensity of the fight was a heart attack. Not the medical kind.

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The WilliesFROM the Slasher Himself, a Few Words About Violence

In the past couple of weeks, the pettiness - bordering on anti-Americanism - of the right-wingers has been a sight to behold. We know that President Barack Obama is inexplicably despised by a small but noisy segment of the American people.

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Obama to huddle with civil rights leaders, law enforcement

Many business owners in Ferguson spent the weekend after Thanksgiving rebuilding their damaged stores and facilities. Unrest exploded in the wake of a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown.

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A hard-earned honor

Charlie Sifford didn't need a trademark like his ever-present cigar to make himself known in the world of professional golf. This native son of Charlotte was for a time seemingly the only African-American playing in the top professional ranks, and the hazards he faced went beyond sand bunkers and water.

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MomentumBRATTLEBORO'S Peter Pan of Art

If you were President Obama, why would you bother to give the time of day to an organization dedicated not just to the destruction of his presidency, but to liberalism in general? It took long enough for him to figure it out, but Obama and his Administration have finally realized that Fox News Channel is nothing more than the media arm of the Republican National Committee and not a bona fide news-gathering organization. We wonder what the tipping point was for Obama.

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On Native GroundMEMO to Dems: Ignore the Base and You'LL Lose Elections

BRADENTON, Fla., Nov. 9. 2009 -- When you think about all the issues President Barack Obama has piled on his plate, it's enough to give you the willies. He's got the huge fight for health reform looming in the U.S. Senate, when tens of millions of dollars will be deployed by insurers in a last-minute, all-out fight to reclaim their right not to insure people and not to pay them when they do.

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Make My DayWHAT the Bleep is Wrong with Meep?

For political junkies, the off-year elections held around the nation on Tuesday were pretty thin gruel. There weren't many surprises.

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Rape limits

Ohio prosecutors have time limits for filing criminal charges against defendants.

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NY dinner puts wealthy and homeless at same tables

Some well-off Manhattan residents paid $100 Friday for the honor of eating a candlelit holiday dinner with homeless people at a church, an intersection of two worlds that left one down-on-his luck man thinking the seemingly impossible. "What if a love connection happened tonight between the haves and the have-nots?" 44-year-old Craig James said before guests arrived.

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Healthy PA enrollment begins but program could be scrapped next year

Starting today, uninsured Pennsylvanians whose annual income is less than 138 percent of the household federal poverty limit may apply for health coverage through the state's new "Healthy PA" program, which offers subsidized, Medicaid-like insurance plans through private health carriers.

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Obama to discuss Ferguson with cabinet

President Barack Obama will discuss the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, Monday with his Cabinet, civil rights leaders, law enforcement officials and others. The White House says ObamaA s Cabinet meeting will focus on his administrationA s review of federal programs that provide military-style equipment to law enforcement agencies.

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Congress crams unfinished agenda into final days

Like a student who waited until the night before a deadline, lawmakers resuming work Monday will try to cram two years of leftover business into two weeks, while also seeking to avoid a government shutdown. Their to-do list includes keeping the government running into the new year, renewing expired tax breaks for individuals and businesses and approving a defense policy measure that has passed for more than 50 years in a row.

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Obama Shafts Hillary With Amnesty and Ferguson

As Barack Obama invites in five million illegals to scoop up American jobs, and as those normal Americans lucky enough to still have jobs wait in traffic while morons block the freeway because some Swisher Sweets-puffing felon got himself killed, Hillary Clinton's chances in 2016 plummet. So it turns out that Obama is likely to achieve one great thing as president - he'll keep Hillary from ever occupying the Oval Office.

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Emanuel, Drooling Over Death

"I love you, Nana," I told my dying 93-year-old grandma this summer. For a brief but unforgettable moment, her Irish eyes sparkled and a huge smile shone on her face.

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Jim Webb Thinks He CanBeat Hillary Clinton

In a previous post, Jim Webb announced he is establishing an exploratory committee for a possible 2016 run. Given Clinton's vast ties within her political machine, it seems hard to envision a 2016 primary season where she loses, but she did lose to an insurgent candidate named Barack Obama in 2008; Obama trailed her in the polls by 30 points at the time.

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The mayor of the US suburb at the center of a deadly police shooting that sparked repeated nights of racially charged unrest pledged Sunday to rebuild the riot-hit town. "We are recommitted to rebuilding the city and to once again becoming a thriving community for economic development and residential stability," Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said at a news conference.

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Today in History for Dec. 1

On Dec. 1, 1974, TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, N.Y., with the loss of its three crew members .

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Jeff Stone rolls on

Jeff Stone, second from right, gets a hug from John Benoit while flanked by Kevin Jeffries, left, and Marion Ashley at Stone's last Board of Supervisors meeting. "I never got into this because I was looking for another job," said the 58-year-old pharmacist.

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FUSE staffer gets job with Finch

Mayor Bill Finch has given safe harbor to a former staffer with FUSE, the charter school management company scuttled earlier this year by personnel scandals. Finch's office last week confirmed that Indra Sen, FUSE's director at the city's Paul Laurence Dunbar elementary school, who has been sighted recently at school board meetings, will earn $90,593 as the administration's deputy chief administrative officer for legislative affairs and mayoral initiatives.

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Republican nominee should make a case for presidential self-restraint

America's Newtonian Constitution might again function according to Madisonian expectations if a provoked Congress regains its spine and self-respect, thereby returning our constitutional architecture to equipoise.

http://www.paducahsun.com/opinion/113014_PS_Will_column

WORTHWHILE Congress should support VFW charter change

Congress formally entered lame-duck status after Election Day. Nonetheless, before they wrap up, lawmakers should attend to a little-noticed bill that is that rarest of birds in Washington, something Republicans and Democrats both can agree on.

http://www.paducahsun.com/opinion/113014_PS_Sunday_editorial

New regs could affect W.Va. economy

The Obama administration made a proposition on Novmeber 26 to reduce the amount of smog-forming pollution allowed in the air, which could mean bad news for coal country.

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County's GOP women lead a national charge

Republicans looking to make inroads with female voters by electing more women to office would do well to look at Orange County. The state's only female GOP member in the new Congress is from Orange County.

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