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Vanity School Fair - The Atlantic (November 9, 2008)

Nothing sets the nation’s capital aflame quite like the imminent arrival of a president elect, especially one who directly appeals to the ruthless strivers who populate the wealthy liberal precincts of upper northwest D.C. For...

The president slept here: Glimpse life the way Jackson, Lincoln and Truman lived it

McClatchy Tribune Presidential tourism is as old as George Washington and as enduring as Grant's Tomb. JACKSON'S PRIDE AND JOY Just outside of Nashville, Tenn., in 1845, the nation's seventh president, Andrew Jackson, died in...

George W Bush could pardon spies involved in torture

George W Bush is considering issuing pardons for US spies embroiled in allegations of torture just before he leaves the White House. Many fear that Barack Obama, who has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and...

Editorial: Put An End To Election Mess

Intellpuke: This editorial appeared in the Boston Globe edition for Friday, November 14, 2008. Barack Obama's superior get-out-the-vote operation spared the country from another squeaker presidential election, with the claims...

Obama's Triumph, the GOP's Calamity (Good Analysis!)

An ocean of ink, India and printer’s and virtual, has been spilled in celebration of a black man’s ascension to the presidency of the United States. We have read, and read again, about the historic nature of Barack Obama’s...

A Recession Can Clear The Air

Virtually all of America's financial and political artillery has been dragooned into the great task of heading off a recession. This is exactly the wrong way to go. As painful as it will be in the short run, a recession is just...

Books reveal personal, pictorial looks at North Umpqua

"It's a rare river that has a storied past such as the North Umpqua's. In "The Creel: North Umpqua Edition" many voices share what it is about this magical river that makes it so compelling and unforgettable."

No country for the burnt Bushes

SUBURBAN streets littered with mortgage foreclosure signs, amputee soldiers recuperating in a rat-and-cockroach infested military hospital ward and thousands of hurricane-belted Americans chaotically crammed into the New...

Annan to lead team on humanitarian mission to Harare

The former UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, is to lead a high-profile team on a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe, where the opposition Movement for Democratic Change refused yesterday to join a power-sharing government with...

DAVID JONES: Return to camp suicide: 30 years on, could the nightmare of Jonestown happen again?

It was a horror that defied all reason - 1,000 Americans brainwashed into taking cyanide by their deranged leader By David Jones The jungle stretches out below our twin-engine plane like some vast, luxuriant carpet that seems...