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My soft spot for Dr. Laura

Parker: What she's done to help people should be balanced against her insensitivity.
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• Broder: Why Robert Gibbs is so angry
• Ignatius: Obama's second-term master stroke
• Milbank: Alaska's Tea Party hypocrisy
• Will: A two-state solution is delusional

Discussions

Begin Democratic panic

Ponnuru | Bad employment news. Obama's view on the Ground Zero mosque. Whatever the reason, Democrats have started to panic.

• User Poll: Who 'owns' Ground Zero?
• On Leadership: Of course you need vacation
• On Faith: Hitchens 'a hero to the faithful'?
• User Poll: What are you doing with $1 coins?
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Focus on leadership

Facing down intolerance

Video | Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices on how women all over the world are taking risks to become political and business leaders bettering their communities.

• Paul Light: Secrecy in Obama's grant fund
• PostLeadership: Ethical crisis in the C-Suite?
• FedCoach: Overcoming technophobia

Americans slow to buy, employers slow to hire With consumers destined to disappoint for many years, economy is unlikely to recapture prosperity of quarter-century that preceded financial crisis.

Neil Irwin

• Wary businesses brace for 'a different era'
• U.S. eyes private sector's role in affordable housing
• Unemployment edges downward in the District

Iran fueling first nuclear plantEngineers begin weeklong process of loading uranium fuel into reactor in first startup step.

Associated Press | 7:01 a.m. ET

Blago's defense, funded by you? If TV shows can't cover the ex-Illinois governor's costs for retrial, federal taxpayers may have to.

Jerry Markon

• Blagojevich found guilty on one of 24 counts

Wikileaks founder is wanted man Swedish officials say chief of whistle-blower Web site is suspected in 2 cases of molestation, rape.

Associated Press | 8:11 a.m. ET

U.S. to host Mideast peace talks While citing obstacles, White House expresses hope that deal for Palestinian state may come soon.

Mary Beth Sheridan and Janine Zacharia

• OPINION: Ignatius: Two slightly different invitations
• Clinton: Israelis, Palestinians to resume talks

How the oil well was plugged BP and Uncle Sam overcome natural antagonism to create functioning team in gulf spill response.

Joel Achenbach

• 9/11 mediator assesses spill claims | Full coverage

You, nice to meet, it is

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• Prosecutors: WikiLeaks founder suspected of rape
• Australian governing party trailing in vote count
• Floods submerge new towns in Pakistan's south
• Rains batter China anew; 50,000 evacuated in flood
• Report: Blackwater agrees to pay $42 million in fines
• Nats fall to Phillies, 1-0 | Rangers top O's, 2-0
• Artur Davis comes out swinging in Alabama
• Intelligence chief brings sense of humor to job
• Hospital pricing systems garnering more attention
• U.S. pleased with extradition of reputed arms dealer
• Serena Williams withdraws from U.S. Open

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