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...ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may well have been written last week in the same medium that incubated it: talk radio. On conservative commentator Laura Ingraham's show, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history explained why he would not resign despite a sex scandal that has produced a hail of questions about his leadership and the failure to stop one of his members from cyberstalking teenage congressional pages...
...avoid appearing frequently on Western radio and television, because criticism is tolerated less than ever, and if I have to soften my analysis I'd rather not say anything at all. I've given up meeting with Western diplomats, who are considered the local spy-masters. Better to read what Western officials say in the newspapers than bulk up my intelligence file. When Iranians journalists ask me for help applying for fellowships in the US or Europe, I say No. Ever since the Intelligence Minister said the United States is exploiting Iranian journalists as part of its conspiracy against...
...Enough,” National Public Radio correspondent Juan Williams makes the convincing, if unoriginal, argument that many poor black Americans have succumbed to a “culture of failure,” one marked by high levels of poverty, illegitimacy, and incarceration, and low levels of educational attainment...
...with many races this year, illegal immigration is shaping up to be a key issue in the 11th district, where many agricultural businesses, including Christmas trees, rely on immigrant labor. Taylor's first radio commercial has painted Shuler as being soft on illegal immigration, and the Republican Party has backed it up with illegal immigration billboards scattered around Asheville and western North Carolina. For his part, Shuler claims to be as tough on illegal immigration as Taylor...
...alignment with Russia. Saakashvili's heavy hints that he might force the issue has allowed Moscow to accuse the Georgian leadership of threatening aggression. And it has certainly helped President Vladimir Putin rally the Russian public behind a nationalist cause. A poll taken by the Moscow-based Echo Moskvy radio station late last month found that 40% of its typically liberal audience believe that Russia's national interests justify any hard line on Georgia. Such jingoism could work as smartly for Putin's as yet unnamed heir-designate as the Chechen war worked for Putin back in 1999 - that...