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Business Focus Photo July 23, 2009

A Handy Look at Professor Obama’s Presser #4

All of Obama's gestures in his health care press conference last night reduce down to one basic idea everyone can understand but, especially as Americans, we stubbornly resist: How do you set limits?

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Faith Focus Photo July 22, 2009

The Obama Psyche: Big Tent (Vs. Harry’s Tent)

Do you think Obama is all that interested in reaching out to the LDS or, is this just politics as usual, given that Harry Reid is a devout follower, and the highest politically-elected Mormon in the U.S. government?

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F-22 Slapped Around A Little, But Oh Still So Hot

  So the media is trumpeting a major victory for the White House because the Senate voted, under threat of a veto, to "only" build 187 more F-22 Raptors instead of 194.

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo July 21, 2009

Bagram: Nobody Here But Us Humanitarians

One of the hallmarks of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns has been the absurd disconnect between what the military showcases for the visual media as compared to what otherwise is happening "on the ground."

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President Obama Photo July 20, 2009

Health Care: Starting with Debby from Appalachia

The two sides of the Administration's health care push 00 Obama hugging cancer patient Debby Smith of Appalachia, Virginia, and then "Rahm's forced march.

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo July 19, 2009

Taliban Hearts CNN

Just this morning comes the first use of another weapon of assymetrical warfare, the Taliban engaging the "battle space" of the media sphere.   

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Business Focus Photo July 18, 2009

   More Like Whistling by the Graveyard?

In the past year, Detroit has undoubtedly become the photographic destination du jour for America's devastating recession.

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International Focus Photo July 17, 2009

Iran Update: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

Given the profound combination of political expression and primitive repression in Iran right now, it is fascinating to watch the reform movement patiently adapt its form and tactics by the week.

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Media Focus Photo

Afghanistan: It’s All Good

The Marine in the foreground escaped. But two of them didn't, which makes me think that the emphasis on the former is an example of the disconnect between these wars we keep getting ourselves into and the all-too-familiar tendency tendency to deny or romanticize.

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Culture Focus Photo July 16, 2009

Chris Hondros on "The Hurt Locker"

I’ve been waiting for a truly great movie about the Iraq War. I know it’s still going on, but don’t think it’s impossible to ask for one. The issue is important to me, since like many journalists who have frequented Iraq I’ve often been frustrated by the public’s lack of...

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Afghanistan: On The Rise

With American casualties on the rise as the result of the U.S. escalation, what is the chance of this kind of imagery -- amidst the noise of ultimately uneventful happenings like the the Sotomayor hearings or the G-8 summit  -- capturing domestic attention?

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President Obama Photo July 15, 2009

Obama’s Pitch

Sure Obama throwing out the first ball at the All Star Game meant something.

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Race Focus Photo

Sotomayor Confirmation: On the Backs of White Heroes

With the glow firefighters continue to carry from 9/11, this line of primarily white "first responders" makes for a vivid non-verbal argument that Sonia is stepping up to the high court on the backs of these white heros.

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Uncategorized Photo July 14, 2009

Sotomayor Confirmation: The Tag Team of Kyl and Graham

Great shot from Getty's Mark Wilson capturing the dynamics today between the Sonia Sotomayor and the tag team of Senators Graham and Kyl.

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Terror Focus Photo

Horrors of a Different Color

Even if history dramatically tempers emotion and memory, one can't overestimate how traumatized Americans were on and immediately after 9/11.

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Uncategorized Photo July 13, 2009

Sharpies and Babies

So the question is, how much is the photo a non-verbal poke at the contortions Palin has wrenched on her own brood?... caption : Gov. Sarah Palin last week at a signing event, for legislation and other items, in the village of McGrath, Alaska.)

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Sonia Live: The Warm-Up Act

W ith an eye toward domestic terrorism, this anti-abortion wacko (disguised in a business suit) grabbed the floor this morning before being thrown out of day 1 of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.

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Media Focus Photo July 12, 2009

Malia, Peace Signs and Bottom Feeders (Political as well as Journalistic)

Someone please save us from a conflict-hungry and gossip-starved media forced to enter this week with no Michael Jackson to pick over and faced with the not-so-juicy prospects of a slam-dunk Sotomayor confirmation to otherwise go to work on Obama's first daughter, Malia.

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