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Ever since Scott Brown's stunning upset victory in Massachusetts, Obama has been forced to acknowledge the existence of Republicans...beyond insulting, demonizing and falsely blaming them for everything and excluding them from every step of the process. Now, the "post-partisan" candidate for "change" wants to "work together"...

Some day a great biography will be written about Arnold Schwarzenegger, a born-again American who proved able to remake himself in whatever ways proved necessary to succeed. Properly explored, however, there may be pathos in Mr. Schwarzenegger's story, as well as triumph. Because it begins to appear the story of the current governor of California -- or should that be "Kauli-fornia"? -- helps crystallize the story of the one place in the world where that success story was possible: America. Most of the story is well-known. With little else to work with, Mr. Schwarzenegger made his own body the tool...

UNITED NATIONS – After a day of intensive consultations between the U.N. Security Council and the U.N.'s Iraq arms inspectors Thursday, some compromises appear to be in the works. Arab diplomatic sources say that Baghdad will drop its objections to unfettered U.N. inspections of presidential sites if the Bush administration drops its insistence on an automatic trigger to use force against Iraq. The special status of so-called "presidential sites" has been a subject of controversy since U.N. chief Kofi Annan reached a "memo of understanding" with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in February 1998. The memo excluded so-called "presidential sites" (more...