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Arianna Huffington: Post hostess By Choire Sicha December 21, 2008 Arianna Huffington shuttles between New York, home of the Huffington Post offices, and Los Angeles, where her youngest daughter is in high school... LATTE: With the rise of the Campbell Brown "No B.S." hour and Rachel Maddow, now TV news is more op-ed page than front page. Is this a good thing? HuffnStuff: It's absolutely a good thing. Also, just the question presupposes there is something inherently wrong with a journalist or a newscaster having an opinion, which is a continuation, for me, of the misperception of the highest calling...

""...Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where...

There is nothing noble about war. We hand out pieces of metal that have been molded into crosses, stars and hearts, affix them to gaudy ribbons and put names on them like "honor," "distinguished," "purple," "bronze" and "silver". There are distinctions, however: Some people get them for killing people, other people get them for saving people and, not too long ago , you had to be white and Christian to get any of them at all. Regardless ( not that it's irregardless) of all that, the activity engaged in to get these baubles is war-and war means that ther are...