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Editorial: Europe's debt crisis threatens U.S.Similarities between America's crisis in '08 and Europe's today point to 3 major areas.
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Column: GOP missing opportunity with LatinosMichael Medved: On values and assimilation, Republicans line up with these voters.
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Column: Southern Baptists, change that nameJonathan Merritt: Shed 'Southern' to turn a page on the past and look toward the future.
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Partial government shutdown averted
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Another shutdown threat?
“Disaster aid or disaster in the making?” wonders Politico’s Manu Raju. “It’s not clear whether Harry Reid's legislative gambit will work — or lead nowhere.”
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GOP needs a candidate
Michael Barone in the National Review points out: “There are some real flaws in this field. … Can anyone who was on the stage last Thursday night beat Barack Obama?”
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Delayed win for Saudi women
“Let’s not praise King Abdullah … just yet — he’s finally giving Saudi women the right to vote, but not until 2015, and he’s still not letting women drive,” says Daily Beast’s David Keyes.
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Stimulus and the Depression
“The U.S. doesn't need another war to revive the economy. We need a policy turnaround like the one in the late 1930s,” note Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian in the Wall Street Journal.
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The book on Barack
“Ron Suskind’s ‘Confidence Men’ offers support for progressive gripes about the president, and for a few of the conservative ones,” writes New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg.
Punchlines: Comic spin on the news
David Letterman
“Do you know that here in the United States we have a pumpkin shortage? Thanks a lot, Obama.”
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Jay Leno
“They had another Republican debate in Florida that was sponsored by Google. You know something, I think Google could really help us out here. You could do a Google search and see if we can find some better candidates.”
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Jimmy Fallon
“Mitt Romney says he wants Sarah Palin to run for president to make the race ‘more exciting.’ Although with Romney running, even Al Gore on Ambien would make the race more exciting.”
On Religion
The truth about evangelicals
Mark Pinsky explores how evangelical Christianity may not be radical as its most famous adherents would imply.
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Post-9/11 religion
Torn between insular Christianity and religious tolerance, the U.S. can still achieve unity.
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Doubting believers
As one physicist-priest will tell you, science and faith are compatible. But neither is certain.
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Religious liberty
In an era of political freedom, religious persecution remains severe.
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World Youth Day
A Catholic festival shows why millennials are embracing traditional religion.
