Quoted: Along the way, they have cast aside the administration’s long-held views about regulation and government involvement in private business, even reversing decisions over the space of 24 hours and justifying them as practical solutions to dire threats.

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Rwanda is on course to become the only nation in the world with a Parliament dominated by women.

Quoted: She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness.

This is really well done. It also shows past elections.

Quoted: Interactive map of the 2008 presidential election and senate, house, and governor elections. State-by-state coverage of primary elections, caucuses, and election news coverage. Interactive calendar shows primaries by date.

Very well put ...

Quoted: Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”

Is she serious?

Quited: "GOV. SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY.''

Quoted: Explorers looking for the lost cities in the Amazon have famously come up empty-handed. But now, scientists have found the remains of numerous smaller villages clustered around larger villages. Urban life may have been a part of the ancient Amazon after all.

Wonderful speech from Michelle Obama ...

Quoted: In her speech, Michelle Obama delves into her autobiography as a child on the South Side of Chicago and as an adult working in the public service sector. Her speech highlights what she calls Obama's commitment to young people, women and working families.

Comparisons of Olympic body types ...

Quoted: Six variations on the Olympic ideal.