If Sanford had fessed up in front of Letterman’s audience, it might have looked like this

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Rethink Afghanistan

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These six videos will take a little more than an hour of your time, in total:

Here’s how federal government saved us from horrors of another Great Depression

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 Robert J. Samuelson, who’s not exactly a flaming liberal, gives CREDIT where credit is due (no pun).

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Scholars will debate which interventions — the Federal Reserve propping up a failing credit system, the Troubled Assets Relief Program, Obama’s “stimulus” plan and bank “stress test” — counted most. Regardless, they all aimed to reassure people that the free fall would stop and thereby curb the fear perpetuating the free fall. Confidence had to be restored so the economy’s normal recovery mechanisms could operate. This seems to have happened.

Emotional maturity of bratty 13-year-old

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 Paul Krugman NAILS IT.

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[A]t this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America.

To be sure, while celebrating America’s rebuff by the Olympic Committee was puerile, it didn’t do any real harm. But the same principle of spite has determined Republican positions on more serious matters, with potentially serious consequences — in particular, in the debate over health care reform.