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Presidential Campaign Themes: 'It's The Slogan, Stupid'
WBUR
So the Romney campaign wants to pose this question: Do you put your faith in American ingenuity, traditional values and free enterprise or do you trust the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, DC? A slogan should sound new and stirring.

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Commentary: $40 billion in foreign aid may be wasted each year
Kansas City Star
And aid experts who know how to educate, heal, irrigate and build roads are routinely overruled by political concerns at the State Department and other foreign ministries. “There are some estimates that we may be wasting 30 percent of the $130 billion

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Did Obama try to block teens from working on family farms?
Washington Post (blog)
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy If you do look at, 'Are you better off,' the answer's clearly no, under any measure. But there's also the question of, 'Is there any hope, with the failure of leadership-- this

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Feeling '80s Spirit: Post-Hardcore Punk for the Plastic Generation
PopMatters
They include the obscure late '80s animistic art-punk of Moss Icon, from Annapolis, Maryland, and the continued efforts of Jason Farrell, the music maker-cum-graphic designer, originally from Washington DC, who has forged over three decades worth of

Obama (r)evolves on gay marriage
Windy City Times
His taking a stand has ramifications beyond the LGBT movement, because other communities who have felt let down by Obama's differed hopes and dreams may now see that he can get out of a middle ground made of quicksand, and take a step on the solid

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