Politics
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Sarah Palin: Not So Plain, Not So Tall
Gov. Sarah Palin could have been the lead GOP 2012 U.S.presidential candidate if she had played her cards right after the 2008 election. But she didn’t.
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Herman Cain tells us it’s time to “get real”
Herman Cain, Godfather’s Pizza CEO, will run for U.S. President in 2012, though he’s short on ideas and solutions about how to solve America’s problems.
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Eliot Spitzer Is An Asshole. So what?
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s ‘not a nice guy persona’ struggles to find a place on our small screen.
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Grant Memorial: The ‘Ugly Betty’ of U.S. Presidential Monuments
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is classified as a presidential memorial, like the Lincoln, Jefferson and FDR, but in terms of recognition it is the poor stepchild of Washington, DC…
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Media Myth Surrounding the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debates & the Boston Globe
The groupthink about the 1960 U.S. Presidential Debate is that John Kennedy won over the television debate audience while Richard Nixon reigned over those who heard it on the radio.…
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When the Long-suffering Wife Is Worse Than the Mistress
The emotional and media triangle of John Edwards, former U.S. Presidential Candidate, his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, and his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
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