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Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party's champion, to the Bush administration's pervasive incompetence, to the party's shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.
Added By: michael 01/03/09 8:52AM
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We've often said that the spin never stops in Washington. And the weeks since Nov. 4 offer further evidence of that.
Added By: michael 01/02/09 10:14AM
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While I am sure The Times-Picayune is receiving an inundation of outrage in response to your coverage of what can only be classified as inappropriate political censorship in our schools, I feel strongly enough about this particular issue to write you a personal note.
Added By: michael 11/25/08 11:48AM
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Days before Governor PBJ heads to Iowa, ostensibly to inflame the hearts and minds of the nation's Christian conservatives, The Ouachita Citizen's Sam Hanna, Jr., penned an impressive editorial, entitled Jindal May Be Acting Prematurely:
Added By: michael 11/24/08 1:55PM
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veryone's talking about a new New Deal, for obvious reasons. In 2008, as in 1932, a long era of Republican political dominance came to an end in the face of an economic and financial crisis that, in voters' minds, both discredited the G.O.P.'s free-market ideology and undermined its claims of competence. And for those on the progressive side of the political spectrum, these are hopeful times.
Added By: michael 11/24/08 1:45PM
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The U.S. government is prepared to provide more than $7.76 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. The pledges, amounting to half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, are intended to rescue the financial system after the credit markets seized up 15 months ago.
Added By: michael 11/24/08 1:42PM
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A Native American boy will be allowed to continue wearing his hair in a braid at school, after the superintendent of schools in St. Tammany Parish reversed an earlier decision that the child would have to cut his hair or wear his braid in a bun.
Added By: michael 11/20/08 11:14AM
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Crowded into the multipurpose room at Mandeville Elementary School on the morning of Nov. 5, the student body of more than 500 boys and girls joined American citizens and people throughout the world in celebrating the election of Barack Obama, who will become the country's first black president.
Added By: michael 11/20/08 11:13AM
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James Carville, the colorful political mastermind whose strategy helped propel Bill Clinton into the White House, will join Tulane University's political science faculty in the spring to teach an undergraduate course on this year's presidential election.
Added By: michael 11/18/08 4:37PM
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For the past three decades, the north shore has accumulated new residents faster than the city of New Orleans, and the state as a whole. Builders followed, launching a construction boom that at one point accounted for a quarter of all single-family home permits in the state.
Added By: michael 11/17/08 10:15AM
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A Tulsa, Okla., woman who traveled to Louisiana to join the Ku Klux Klan was shot to death by the leader of the group's Bogalusa chapter Sunday after she tried to back out of initiation rites at a remote, sandbar camp in northeastern St. Tammany Parish, authorities said Tuesday.
Added By: michael 11/12/08 9:12AM
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At the end of this remarkable week, we're starting to look ahead to the First 100 Days of the Obama presidency. Already, we're hearing calls in the mainstream media warning the new administration "not to overreach." And working overtime, the Inside-the-Beltway Punditocracy continues to reveal its ability to ignore reality--even while describing itself as "realist"--with its claims that this is still a center-right nation, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Added By: michael 11/11/08 12:49PM
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While adults wrestled with choices in this week's presidential and local elections, students as young as kindergarteners were also making monumental decisions.
Added By: michael 11/11/08 11:57AM
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n what may be the most surreal event this year, President Elect Barack Obama and President Reject (see what I did there?) George W. Bush had a little sit down this afternoon. No one knows what these two talked about, so we created the following completely imagined guestimate of how that meeting went down, WITH HOT PICS. Check out the slideshow after the jump...
Added By: michael 11/11/08 10:13AM
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Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday's vote in this rural red swatch where buck heads and rifles hang on the wall. This corner of the Deep South still resonates with negative feelings about the race of President-elect Barack Obama.
Added By: michael 11/11/08 9:05AM
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