At the edge
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September 16, 2008
Leading economists are reaching for the gloomiest language they can find to describe the seriousness of the collapse that hit Wall Street this week. Major investment firms are crumbling, and the international financial system is threatened. No one has seen anything like it.
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U.S. needs scientific boost
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September 15, 2008
Two things happened earlier in the month that, taken together, clearly spell out why America is doomed if we don't correct our course as a society.
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Gloom and doom
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September 13, 2008
Business people are optimists. They make their investments with the belief that the economy will grow and that their products and services will expand to meet a growing need.
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Piggy pile
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September 12, 2008
Democrats have been pulling their hair out because they fear that Barack Obama is not being as obnoxious as Sarah Palin.
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Seven years later
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September 11, 2008
The first anniversary was a time of extreme nervousness. The planes had struck from out of the blue on Sept. 11, 2001. Would they do it again a year later?
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A double game
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September 10, 2008
The next president will face a challenge in Pakistan as difficult as any president has faced in a generation.
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Primary day
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September 9, 2008
Don't forget to vote. It's Primary Election Day. Did you forget?
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Policy, not politics
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September 8, 2008
We should all hope that the election will be over before the next review of government spending, expected for sometime in November. Maybe that way we can get some straight answers.
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Neutered maverick
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September 6, 2008
In a noteworthy section of John McCain's acceptance speech on Thursday he described the way the Republican Party had lost its way.
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Bush III
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September 5, 2008
The appearance of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, energized Republicans at their convention hall on Wednesday and signaled to Democrats that they face a campaign of attack, evasion, and distortion.
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Douglas for VP
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September 4, 2008
Gov. James Douglas has said he believes Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as vice president. He is speaking nonsense.
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Time will tell
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September 4, 2008
So far the Republican National Convention reveals either a party in disarray or a party of strategic brilliance. Time will tell which.
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Political winds are blowing
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September 3, 2008
You expect a lot of hot air in politics. Now it seems that even hurricanes, nature's terrifying circular whirlwinds of air, are being blown up into a political issue.
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Our me-ist society
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September 2, 2008
You've seen them; we all have:
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Workers deserve better
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September 1, 2008
On this Labor Day, think for a moment of the exploited workers in Mexico and China, two of the "developing nations" where many American jobs have fled over the past decade or so, as we have exported our manufacturing base.
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A new direction
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August 30, 2008
Barack Obama is writing a new book in the history of American politics.
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Historic day
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August 29, 2008
Regardless of how the presidential election turns out in November, this year's campaign for the White House will go into the history books as the one that finally and formally acknowledged the wisdom of that proud but hitherto unrealistic adage that in this country any American can grow up to be president.
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Take heart
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August 28, 2008
There continues to be hand-wringing among Democrats about supporters of Hillary Clinton who are having trouble switching their allegiance to the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama.
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Getting acquainted
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August 27, 2008
Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have two jobs ahead of them during the party convention and the coming campaign. They have begun on the first, which is to acquaint voters with Obama. They also have to acquaint them with John McCain.
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He's no Cheney
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August 26, 2008
Joe Biden could not be more different from the vice president he hopes to succeed.
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Foreign policy matters
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August 25, 2008
In Georgia, the world is reaping the bitter fruits of naïve actions on the foreign stage.
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Charting power
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August 24, 2008
It is possible to imagine a future where Vermont derives its electricity from a mix of renewable energy sources that are cheap, nonpolluting and environmentally benign, a combination of wood, solar, wind and hydro sources, combined with aggressive conservation.
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Home sweet home
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August 23, 2008
This week John McCain temporarily forgot how many houses he owns. After a reporter inquired, McCain said he'd have to check with his staff.
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Pollina's troubles
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August 22, 2008
Anthony Pollina's campaign for governor is foundering in a surprising fashion.
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Number two
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August 21, 2008
The latest rumor to swirl through the world of e-mail speculation was that Barack Obama would name Hillary Clinton as vice president after all.
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Us and them
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August 20, 2008
In 1997 George F. Kennan wrote that expanding NATO to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic would be "the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold war era."
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