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He ain't triangulating, he's my post-partisan. That's Eugene Robinson innovative new MSM means of covering for Barack Obama. As Obama sprints toward the center and away from many of the positions that won him the nomination from the liberal Dem base, WaPo columnist Robinson has suggested that the nominee isn't engaging in the kind of cynical "triangulating" that made Bill Clinton famous. No, Obama's just being the real post-partisan he really was all along. EUGENE ROBINSON: "My headline tonight is a question: is it post-partisanship, or plain old triangulation? I think everyone's instinct, when we heard Barack Obama talk about...

Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez details low-cost, low-tech and high-ROI anti-AIDS programs being initiated in several African nations that appear to be succeeding where “safe sex” has been a miserable failure: [T]here's nothing mysterious about AIDS prevention. The ABC [“abstinence, be faithful and condoms”] approach is the one that has shown results. As Harvard researcher Edward C. Green has phrased it, “Uganda rocked the world of AIDS prevention by promoting ‘sticking to one partner’ and delaying the age of first sex.” He wrote earlier this year: “The broad trend in Africa is in fact toward higher levels of monogamy, fidelity and...