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What Will it Take to Show Real Political Courage in Iraq?

What Will it Take to Show Real Political Courage in Iraq?

February 11, 2013 6:00 am
This is The Monday Line By Denis G. Campbell Last Saturday morning at 5:45 am, there was a brutal rocket and mortar attack on Camp Liberty, home to some 3,100 refugees living...

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With a Heavy Heart

This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell All weekend long, I’d look at my three young children and cry. I would go online and trolls there insult each other and fight over gun rights, the second amendment and all I can try to do is see the faces… then I cry again. As [...]

An 80 Million Strong Rising Tide Takes Time to Settle

This is The Monday Line by Denis G, Campbell The ongoing strife in Egypt creates dramatic headlines. Middle East FOX News pundit doomsayers were predicting Morsi was becoming a new Mubarak, Egypt would become radicalised, even… an Iranian-styled theocracy and Hamas would run rampant because the US, under President Obama, was “leading from behind” in [...]

It’s Voter Demographics and Maths (Stupid)!

This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Former President Bill Clinton and President Obama played a private round of golf Sunday afternoon at Andrews Air Force base. That was the most encouraging fiscal cliff news of last week. If I were running the Republican House caucus? That news would scare me to death. [...]

The Fighting’s in Rounds – Turning Progressive Schadenfreude Into Action

This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell President Barack Obama won convincingly last Tuesday. As with 2008, I missed the final Electoral Vote count by just one state. Back then Missouri kept me from running the table by 3,000 votes. This year North Carolina broke my heart. I was convinced the President would [...]

MSNBC Misogyny Joe’s Frat House-Live

Welcome to The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Former Congressman Joe Scarborough took over the 6-9 am MSNBC time slot five years ago when radio host Don Imus was kicked off the air for calling a mostly black women’s college basketball team “a bunch of nappy-haired hoes.” What replaced him is a version of [...]

The Monday Line: Is Mitt Losing More Than An Election?

by Denis G. Campbell Ann Romney has stumbled badly in the unrelenting glare of campaign trail cameras. Unused to having every word and phrase parsed by the media, she has made what in the past would be perfectly natural statements. Recently they have blown up in her face. The latest is cause for genuine alarm. [...]