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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
This was not a spindly 24-year-old Yalie gliding through Old World Munich. This was a middle-aged woman hauling her flab around the District of Columbia.
I can't help but think of how insulted Jonathon Franzen was when Oprah picked him to be her book club selection a few years ago. Why is it that whenever Oprah breaks into a traditionally male, make that white male dominated field, she gets insulted? She's destroying the purity of the field. Give a smart, populist, rich, black, middle aged woman a break. The Oprah Line is no small potatoes, she worked hard for it, and if she's the inspiration some people need to pull on their gel-soled shoes and hit the trail every morning, then good for her. Judging from all available statistics, America needs more (not fewer) non-professional athletes....and non-professional readers too, for that matter....
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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