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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!LONDON -- Well, ladies, it would appear that I need to don my wetsuit one more time and swim across the pond to defend the honor of EMILY's list. The last time I did this was earlier this summer, when EMILYs List -- a national political group dedicated to electing pro-choice progressive women -- launched a campaign, "Sarah Doesn't Speak For Me." The group ran an ad openly mocking Sarah Palin's whole "mama grizzly" trope for conservative women. In the ad, women dressed in bear costumes voiced their concerns over such issues as health care policy and federal support for education to explain why ...
Back when I worked as a producer for Chicago Public Radio in the early part of the decade, we would periodically revisit the question of whether to do a show on Cuba. Every year, the same anniversaries would roll around -- Fidel Castro's 1959 overthrow of the U.S.-backed Batista government, President Kennedy's failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion -- and every year we'd invariably conclude that things really weren't changing enough to warrant an update. What a difference a few years makes. As my colleague Luisita Lopez Torregrosa reported back in May, the Obama administration has been working ...
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