1. Who Should Pay the Piper? (Pat Buchanan)

Pat Buchanan - Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece's Tomb of t

2. Beware of Democrats Bearing Gifts (Mona Charen)

Mona Charen - The signs are all around us. Even as Barack Obama and the Democrats lower their heads and prepare to bulldoze a huge new entitlement through Congress, the results of profligate government spending are everywhere apparent. It requires a

3. Working Families Still Squeezed (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- There were grumblings from all corners of the AFL-CIO at its winter meeting in Orlando recently. "Disappointment", "disillusionment", "unengaged", these words and worse peppered press reports describing labor's view o

4. Hopeful Signs in Iraq? (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- Facts are scarce, and spin is everywhere, in the aftermath of Iraq's election on Sunday.

5. Navy submarines: What’s really in the way of women serving? (The Christian Science Monit

The Christian Science Monitor - Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter Feb. 19 that the Navy intends to repeal the Congressional ban on female personnel on submarines. It’s about time.

6. Does the Narrative Behind Kathryn Bigelow's Big Oscar Win Mar the Event's Power as a Feminist Triump

HuffingtonPost.com - Read Scott Mendelson's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

7. Tale of Two CEOs: One of Them Needs to Do Better (HuffingtonPost.com)

HuffingtonPost.com - Read Leo Hindery, Jr.'s other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

8. Protest Friends of IDF Fundraiser (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- Tonight, March 9th, The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a non-profit organization that provides support and services to members of Israel's national army, will be holding a gala $1,000 a plate fundraiser at the Waldo

9. Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (Reuters)

Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.

10. Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)

Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

11. Ex-president's body stolen for ransom, Cyprus says (Reuters)

Reuters - Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.

12. If Only Financial Reform Really Were Funny (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- This piece is cross-posted from the WashingtonPost.com, where Katrina vanden Heuvel writes a weekly column.

13. The Scandalous Empire State (RealClearPolitics.com)

RealClearPolitics.com - Pick your applicable New York cliché. Its politicians fall faster than a New York minute. Bad apples spoil the Big Apple. It's called Babylon for a reason.

14. The Rightwing Witch Hunt Against ACORN (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- After 18 months of screaming headlines and attacks vilifying the anti-poverty group ACORN--attacks reminiscent of a New McCarthyism that threatened the group's very existence--it's clear now that this was a right-wing witc

15. OLD PREJUDICES CAN ENDURE EVEN AMONG THE YOUNG (Cynthia Tucker)

Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- Having done my share of sneering at the younger generation over their rap music (I despise the violence and misogyny), their sartorial style ("Pants on the Ground!") and their seeming sense of entitlement (40K a year is

16. PRESIDENTS AND THEIR PEP TALKS (David Shribman)

David Shribman - Had John McCain been elected president and had a general malaise settled on American politics, you might have imagined picking up a newspaper like the Financial Times and seeing a headline like this one: America Needs a Pep Talk.

17. STUDENTS WAKE UP IN CALIFORNIA (Richard Reeves)

Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of California students, from graduate students to kindergarten kids, walked out of their classrooms last Thursday to peacefully (mostly) demonstrate against the decline of education in the Golden State. Could

18. Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (Reuters)

Reuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.

19. U.S. blacks, Hispanics losing more sleep over worries (Reuters)

Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.

20. Canada drops plans for politically correct anthem (Reuters)

Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.

21. Armenian Genocide Resolution: President Obama and the price of moral courage (The Christian Sci

The Christian Science Monitor - A resolution approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, in recognizing the Armenian Genocide, asks the Obama administration to endorse history at the risk of insulting a needed ally. The passing of Hous

22. An 800-year history lesson: big debts, long recovery (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - If the past can foretell the future, a recent book on 800 years of financial crises is rather scary. It suggests that the United States and other countries will emerge only slowly from what is often dubbed the “great

23. Healthcare reform must not ignore the Millennials (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Almost everyone seems to be talking about my generation. With good reason. The Millennials (Generation-Y) are 95 million strong and many of us are in our 20s. We’re beginning to become a very influential part of the

24. FCC broadband plan: It must spur competition (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama administration wants to make sure all Americans have access to broadband Internet service.

25. Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- Long before Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi began talking up health care reform as a top priority for the Democratic Party, Congress and America, Dennis Kucinich was doing so. Indeed, the former Cleveland mayor, Ohio legislat

26. Sanctions against Iran will only bolster its regime (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - On her recent visit to the Persian Gulf, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated an obvious fact that is finally becoming clear to outsiders: Iran is moving toward military dictatorship.

27. Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- Long before Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi began talking up health care reform as a top priority for the Democratic Party, Congress and America, Dennis Kucinich was doing so. Indeed, the former Cleveland mayor, Ohio legislat

28. Wall Street Vet Involved In 1998 Long-Term Capital Management Bailout Says Nothing Has Changed

HuffingtonPost.com - Ten years before this latest crisis, the U.S. government engineered the bailout of a financial firm that had borrowed billions of dollars to make big bets on exotic securities. The firm was a hedge fund called Long-Term Capital M

29. President Obama, Replace Rahm With Me: An Open Letter From Michael Moore (HuffingtonPost.com)

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30. Power in the Blood (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation --

31. The Undemocratic Democrats (Linda Chavez)

Linda Chavez - Arrogance is an occupational hazard in politics, one that is often fatal, and the Democrats show every sign of having succumbed.

32. The Obama Way: Bluster, Bully, Bribe (Michelle Malkin)

Michelle Malkin - The White House took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might be trading a judicial appointment for a wavering Democrat's vote on his health care reform plan. "Absurd," a miffed administration offic

33. A Year of Anti-Religious Bigotry (Brent Bozell III)

Brent Bozell III - It's quite striking to see the degree to which traditional Islam has come under ferocious attack from the anti-religious impulse in Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers in America. It is clearly anti-Islamic religious

34. Â Pitching for America (Pat Buchanan)

Pat Buchanan - It was Father's Day, 1964, when the Phillies' Jim Bunning, a father of seven, took the mound against the Mets.

35. Mostly Hope (Mona Charen)

Mona Charen - After more than a year in office, the Obama foreign policy based on hope has run its course.

36. The Courage of His Convictions (Susan Estrich)

Susan Estrich - When you ask people why it is that they hate or distrust politicians, the usual answers, understandably so, are all about what gutless wonders most politicians are — addicted to their polls, determined to stay there at all costs

37. Obama, Iran and Iraq (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- Just like love and marriage, Iran and Iraq go together. As much as the Obama administration might like to, there's no having an "Iraq policy" without having a closely related "Iran policy." As the song says, you can't have

38. Challenging "High Road" Contracting (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- This is what must make it hard for people working inside the Obama administration. No sooner does the White House start talking up something good, then it does something bad.

39. Slacker Friday (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- My new "Think Again" column about the proliferation of right-wing politicians being hired by network news and cable news networks to beat up on liberals, who when hired, also tend to beat up on liberals. It's occasioned

40. Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza (Reuters)

Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.

41. Aussie underwear has gone bananas (Reuters)

Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.

42. Can women have it all? Not unless men help at home. (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Gone are the days of my mother’s generation when women quit working when they married and shortly thereafter had a child. Long, long gone. And though that might seem like a good thing at first glance, women and

43. Iraq elections on March 7: high stakes, shaky hopes (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - A series of deadly bombings meant to disrupt national elections in Iraq on March 7 point to the precariousness of the vote as well as its high stakes.

44. Facebook protest isn't enough. Selma vets and young activists must share lessons. (The Christia

The Christian Science Monitor - My father, a veteran of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous 1965 Selma march and numerous Vietnam War protests, still wages peace the old fashioned way. For seven years running, he and a group of fellow activists ha

45. Around The Nation (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- The Nation has moved quickly to embrace emerging platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

46. Don't Blame Bunning (Robert Scheer)

Robert Scheer - How convenient that seemingly everyone in the liberal blogosphere, and even at many points to the right, got to use Jim Bunning as a scapegoat.

47. Sen. Bunning: 'Paygo Means Paygo' (Larry Elder)

Larry Elder - What on earth did Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., do, and why did he do it?

48. The Politics of Earthquakes (Joe Conason)

Joe Conason - If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, perhaps it is that government regulation could save your life — while right-wing ideology may kill you someday.

49. Today's Secrets Are In Plain Sight (The Nation)

The Nation - The Nation -- Daniel Ellsberg was on GRITtv last week and he left me thinking about secrecy.

50. Canada may adopt gender-neutral national anthem (Reuters)

Reuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.