Monday, October 11, 2010

Monday's Top News: Why Obama Is Losing the Political War

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Why Obama Is Losing the Political War

By Mark Halperin

Obama is being politically crushed: From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger over unemployment. And it's too late for him to do anything about it until after the midterms

Breakthrough: What's Next for the Chilean Miners

By Tim Padgett

On Saturday morning, champagne was uncorked and church bells began peeling as rescuers at Chile's San Jose mine finally drilled through to the trapped miners

Baghdad Walkabout: On the Other Side of the River

By Nate Rawlings / Baghdad

A former U.S. soldier takes a ride on the Tigris and stops for tea in a shop reconstructed after 2007 blast

Is France's Islamophobia State-Sanctioned?

By BRUCE CRUMLEY

France's zeal for secularism risks turning into a state-sanctioned form of Islamophobia

The Commonwealth Games Update: Not Bad at All

By Elliot Hannon / New Delhi

New Delhi hopes a strong finish will erase memories of the problems that nearly sank the Commonwealth Games. Now how can officials get the attendance up?

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By Jay Newton-Small

I spent the last few days in West Virginia looking at the special election for Robert Byrd's Senate seat. Two-term Governor Joe Manchin, a Democrat who until recently was leading by double digits, has seized on a TV ad put up by the independent expenditure arm of the National Republican Senatorial Committee that features some [...]

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"I don't want them (my children and your children) brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option — it isn't."
CARL PALADINO,
Republican candidate for governor in New York, opposing same-sex marriage and criticizing his opponent, Andrew Cuomo, for marching in a gay pride parade
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Can Britain's Conservatives Escape Thatcher's Legacy?

By Catherine Mayer

The Tories have worked hard to convince voters of their compassion but welfare cuts, announced at their annual conference, bring echoes of the party's bracing past

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