In the grim period that followed Lehman's failure, it seemed inconceivable that bankers would, just a few months later, be going right back to the practices that brought the world's financial system to the edge of collapse.

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Two years ago on September 16, 2007, on a steamy hot Baghdad day with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, a heavily-armed Blackwater convoy entered a congested intersection at Nisour Square in the Mansour district of the Iraqi capital.

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About as many people who were killed on 9/11 die every two months because of our failure to provide universal insurance — and yet many members of Congress want us to do nothing?

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Some parts of Blackwater's clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy.

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Just a little more than a year ago, I went into the office of the Austin American-Statesman's Internet managing editor and asked whether I could start using Twitter to engage the social media community.

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Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president. Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.

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Sen Chris Dodd (D-CT) wrote an op-ed in the The Meriden Record-Journal announcing that he had shifted his position on gay marriage. He now supports full marriage equality!

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Dear Activists in Iran: We stand in solidarity with you and your movement against the alleged election fraud you've claimed.

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Now comes the hard part.

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President Obama is proposing a National Declassification Center to untangle the knots that block the public's right to know. The effort is long overdue.

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So former House speaker Denny Hastert was informed of the investigation into Harman? I find this amazing really. This man has allegedly sold classified information to the American Turkish Council and allegedly taken briefcases full of cash for votes.

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All we really know about the financial industry bailouts and the economic stimulus plan are their enormous potential costs: at least $2 trillion combined, which is likely to balloon to $3 trillion or even $4 trillion, plus additional trillions of costly credit from the Federal Re …

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President Barack Obama ended his first prime time press conference on the "I" word. "When I hear people just saying we don't need to do anything...then what I get a sense of is that there is some ideological blockage there that needs to be cleared up."

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Has Rush Limbaugh finally turned into a liability for the Republican Party? That would be delicious for liberals.

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In her State of the State address last February, Gov. Jennifer Granholm urged the Legislature to push Michigan toward a jobs-rich, green-energy economy by requiring utilities to sell renewable energy and help customers cut their energy use.

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The joke was on us. Iraq burned, New Orleans flooded, and Bush remained oblivious to each and every pratfall on his watch. Americans essentially stopped listening to him after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, but he still doesn't grasp the finality of their defection.

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Rogue nations are already pointing to Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA's secret prisons as examples of our treatment of prisoners, and saying that we should expect nothing less in return.

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So it's official: George W. Bush is not a cowboy. We pretty much suspected he wasn't when we learned that, for all his bow-legged strutting, the man's afraid of horses.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Academic Senate is calling for an independent investigation into the UNL administration's recent decision to disinvite Bill Ayers.

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The backlash from the "intelligence community" over John Brennan's withdrawal -- which pro-Brennan sources are now claiming was actually forced on Brennan by the Obama team -- continues to intensify.

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We're using the bailouts to rebuild giant financial institutions.

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I know everyone is waiting for me to weigh in on the big question of the week: Hillary to State, yea or nay?

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Whatever else one might want to say about "bipartisanship," there is nothing new about it.

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Yes, to begin, let's posit that a president with the lowest approval rating in the history of polling has no credibility about any subject of importance--and, in fact, most of the country would like, as David Letterman joked, to let Barack Obama start his new job right away.

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The international community now has a potent new motivating tool to dissuade world leaders from engaging in tyranny and aggression -- tell them they'll be like George Bush if they do it:

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