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| Financial firms need 'nutrition labels'
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - "Is my money safe?" That's question No. 1 for many Americans today. And it goes to the moral heart of the global financial crisis: lack of trust. |
| Can the US be pals with the terrorist Taliban?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The McCain campaign may want to be careful with its charge that Barack Obama was once "pals" with a 1960s American terrorist. Whoever is the next president faces a difficult choice in the Afghanistan war: Should the US support possible talks with the Taliban, pals of Al Qaeda? |
| When nations kill their own
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - At the height of the bloody suppression by the Burma (Myanmar) regime of protesting monks last year, the heated question was whether the international community should intervene. In response, a well-known Chinese professor told an American newspaper "China has used tanks to kill people on Tiananmen Square. It is Myanmar's sovereign right to kill their own people, too." |
| What Is Todd Palin's Agenda?
(HuffingtonPost.com)
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:09:14 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Who is Todd Palin? |
| John Lewis: McCain, Palin Are "Sowing Seeds of Hatred"
(The Nation)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:10:48 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- After a week of sowing the seeds of hatred and division -- so successfully that even he was embarrassed by the excesses of his supporters -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain got called on the carpet by Georgia Congressman John Lewis. |
| McCain: "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments."
(The Nation)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:31:47 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- Poor John McCain. |
| Can McCain Come Back?
(RealClearPolitics.com)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:30:05 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Over the last few days, the national tracking polls, for the first time in a month (or since the Lehman Brothers collapse triggered the current stage in the financial crisis), have shown a small movement away from Barack Obama and toward John McCain. |
| McCain's Strategery
(RealClearPolitics.com)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:30:45 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Pennsylvania yesterday. Wisconsin today. Iowa tomorrow. What in the heck are Steve Schmidt & Co. doing? Do they know something the rest of us don't? Or are they simply flailing about, searching for a toe-hold in a Kerry state that they might be possibly be able to flip to offset losses and still make 270? |
| Letters to the Editor
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Stabilizing Bolivia requires goodwill and cooperationRegarding the Oct. 7 Opinion piece, "Boiling point in Bolivia": Author Seth Kaplan recommends a heavy-handed course of action that would further destabilize the Andean nation. |
| Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must go
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - At the time, it was perhaps the biggest bailout in US history. Today, one month later, the federal takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been all but forgotten in the drama of the global credit crunch. |
| IDIOMS' DELIGHT
(James Kilpatrick)
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:01:18 GMT James Kilpatrick - The Court of Peeves, Crotchets & Irks resumes its autumn assizes with a motion from Rebecca Bouldin of Columbus, Ohio. She seeks an injunction against "looking to," as in, "Our agency is looking to expand our network." She also asks the court to ban "waiting on," as in, "We are waiting on him for his answer." |
| PLUNGING INTO THE ABYSS THAT OUR 'AFFLUENCE' HATH WROUGHT
(Cynthia Tucker)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:58:06 GMT Cynthia Tucker - "The Puritan ethos (save first and enjoy later) was not abandoned. It was merely overwhelmed by the massive power of modern merchandising." -- "The Affluent Society," John Kenneth Galbraith |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PRESIDENT
(David Shribman)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:58:06 GMT David Shribman - It is one of the great American stories, involving three great Americans and perhaps the most valuable piece of real estate in the United States. The principals were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt along with Henry Adams, the fabled historian and intellectual. The setting was Adams' home right across the park from the White House. |
| The Obama Witch Project
(Michelle Malkin)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - Republicans don't need to dress up for Halloween this year. They're scaring the pants off Barack Obama's followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of "RAAAAACISM!" Wink, blink or think critical thoughts about Obama? You're a bigot! |
| Playing the Race Card
(Linda Chavez)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Linda Chavez - Was John McCain playing the race card when he referred to Barack Obama as "that one" in Tuesday's presidential debate? Obama's campaign and its echo chamber in the media surely want us to think so. Within seconds, the campaign was sending out e-mails to reporters drawing attention to the phrase, and the media were quick to take up the charge. |
| Fox's Lying, Slacker Jesus
(Brent Bozell III)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Brent Bozell III - Just like Bill Maher, "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is discovering that atheist ridicule of Jesus Christ and Christianity draws nothing but yawns from today's media elite. If you want an angry media mob, you need merely spit out "Barack Hussein Obama" at a McCain rally and watch the Guardians of Social Taste bring out the torches and pitchforks. But mocking Jesus? Ho hum. |
| Can McCain Still Win?
(Pat Buchanan)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan - Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory. |
| AYERS A MEANINGLESS DISTRACTION FROM REAL CAMPAIGN ISSUES
(Georgie Anne Geyer)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:58:06 GMT Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- The real "man of the hour" at the latest presidential debate was the man who wasn't there. Oh, he was lurking about, hiding behind the stage curtains and troubling people's minds, as we used to say in the Midwest. Sarah Palin, also not seen, was nevertheless devilishly busy researching every moment of the man's checkered past so she could continue to herald his "friendship" with Barack Obama. |
| PULL THE HAIR PLUG ON THIS GUY
(Ann Coulter)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:51 GMT Ann Coulter - If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?") |
| Hating the New York Times, Part 573
(Mona Charen)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mona Charen - In honor of the Jewish New Year, which reaches its culmination on Yom Kippur, a solemn day of fasting and repentance that falls this year on Oct. 9, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the open Jew-baiting that is enthusiastically enjoyed by our nation's leading newspaper. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 13, 2008 is:
koine • \koy-NAY\ • noun
1 : the Greek language commonly spoken and written in eastern Mediterranean countries in the Hellenistic and Roman periods *2 : a dialect or language of a region that has become the common or standard language of a larger area
Example sentence:
Koines inevitably developed in the early British colonies as different dialects converged.
Did you know?
Koine, which means "common" or "shared" in Greek, was the language spoken in the eastern Mediterranean countries from the 4th century B.C. until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (mid-6th century A.D.). In linguistics, the word "koine" is applied to a language developed from contact between dialects of the same language over a large region. Basically, a koine adopts those grammatical and lexical elements from the dialects of the region that are easily recognized by most area speakers and dispenses with those that are not.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.