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The president should scrap his cautious talk about compromise and bipartisanship. It's time to take a side.

With unemployment figures still high, Obama appears ready to do something about job creation. But local officials are going to need to make the case for a sufficient stimulus.

She's supposed to know something about technology. But millionaire Senate candidate Carly Fiorina seems to be most interested in subdividing the net so that her pals can make money.

The president says the combat mission in Iraq is ended. But 50,000 troops remain. And most people are far less excited about changes in Iraq than they are worried by an expanding conflict in Afghanistan and a weak economy at home.

Could the Democrat who didn't stand a chance beat Palin's protege? A new poll says "yes."

Fox's silliest self-promoter tried to claim a piece of the civil rights legacy. But the anniversary march that mattered was in Detroit, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the UAW's Bob King called for jobs, justice and peace.

Beck and his followers say they are out to "reclaim the civil rights movement." It would be comic if it was not so sad.

For Democrats, Republican primaries are the gift that keeps on giving.

The GOP's most volatile political player appears to have taken down Republican senator Lisa Murkowski.

Democratic primary voters in Florida rejected "meltdown mogul" Jeff Greene.