HuffingtonPost.com - When it comes to the abortion conflict in the US a fascinating new consensus is emerging: the need for common ground.
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The Nation - The Nation -- Forty years ago, America's cultural icons expressed the frustratation of the American people with the failure of then-President Lyndon Johnson to end this country's undeclared war in Vietnam by boldly demanding peace.
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Brent Bozell III - December can be such a refreshing month for television, especially the warmhearted Christmas specials that make the holiday about giving, not mall-emptying materialism.
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Pat Buchanan - "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
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Linda Chavez - For the past dozen years, my family has been constantly growing until we now number 15. But this year's addition isn't a new daughter-in-law or grandchild. At 87, my mother has finally come to live with me. It wasn't an easy move for her. And the timing, at the beginning of November, meant integrating her into daily life during the holidays, when most families experience additional stress as well as the joys of the season.
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Mona Charen - Barack Obama's decision to have Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at his inauguration next month has provoked anguish among some of his formerly ardent supporters.
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The Christian Science Monitor - With the global economy in turmoil, there is tremendous uncertainty and urgency as the new administration prepares to settle into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We know that national priorities are being reshuffled and that it will cost trillions of dollars to address the home-mortgage crisis, proposed bailouts of the banking, insurance, and automobile industries, two foreign wars, and climate change.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Help the hungry and jobless by donating unwanted fruitIn regard to the Dec. 22 article, "As hunger rises in US, so do creative ways to help": Three times a year, I fill my station wagon with grapefruit from my huge, 50-year old grapefruit tree and take them down to the Sacramento Food Bank to share with others. They're the biggest and most beautiful grapefruits in California!
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Ted Rall - On Iraq, Antiwar Candidate Delivers More Carnage
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Susan Estrich - In the eight years since he left the White House, Bill Clinton has worked tirelessly to save the lives of children in some of the most miserable places on the planet. He has traveled to Africa more than most of us travel to see relatives, in order to bring much-needed medicines for AIDS and malaria to those who would die without them and to support economic development in places like Rwanda and Malawi.
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