Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Four of Mitt Romney’s sons get out the message, while also offering a glimpse of themselves.

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The Romney Brothers Advance Father’s Iowa Campaign

Explosions kill dozens in Iraq | Rick Santorum takes his message to New Hampshire | Myanmar’s first girl band.

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In this most flamboyant of presidential primary seasons, one candidate has been a study in understatement. “If people, enough of them, hear our message, they will coalesce around it, and we will do fine,” former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. said. “It may take a little longer than those who are willing to light their hair on fire onstage, or engage in crazy political theatrics, but that’s okay. We’ll get there eventually.” Read full article > >

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Jon Huntsman is study in understatement

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square, protesters around the United States and the globe have cast attention on the notion of corporate greed by the top wealthy 1% at the expense of 99% of the population. The Occupy Wall Street movement is modeled after the leaderless revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, utilizing social media and grassroots organization to spread their message and create meet ups in different cities. This November 17 was designated Mass Day of Action. Occupy Together was created to be “a hub” for international events within the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Keeping the World Occupied

Last week, Rick Warren sent this message to the nearly 500,000 people who follow him on Twitter: “Husbands & wives should satisfy each other’s sexual needs. 1 Cor 7:3.” His Twitter feed lit up with amens and retweets. “Oh gosh,” exclaimed one follower. Evangelical Christians want to talk about sex. And not in the same old punitive way. They want to talk about hot sex — as long as it’s between a man and a woman who are husband and wife. That Warren, perhaps the nation’s most prominent evangelical pastor, would take up the cause only shows how much it matters to the people who listen to him. Read full article > >

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Christian leaders talk about marriage and sex

President Obama, who has struggled to advance his vision for economic renewal at home, will take his pitch overseas this week to an audience of world leaders who could prove equally skeptical of his message at a time of deepening global anxiety. “It’s very hard for us to preach the economic gospel to Europe when they watched our debt-ceiling debate here and our [credit-rating] downgrade,” said Heather Conley , director of European programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read full article > >

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Obama to pitch economic program at Group of 20 summit

As news of Steve Jobs’s death pinged around the world this past week on the shiny devices he helped invent, fans of Apple products made pilgrimages to the company’s stores. They brought apples. They lit digital candles on their iPad screens. Some left condolence cards. Outside Apple’s store in Tysons Corner Center, a card had this message scribbled inside: “You changed my life. I love you.” Read full article > >

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Apple is a new religion, and Steve Jobs was its high priest

Because he is a modern man, my editor, Tom the Butcher , enthusiastically avails himself of new technologies such as Google’s voice-recognition system for phone and computer . Now, when Tom gets a voice mail message on his phone, he not only receives an e-mail alert but also reads the message itself as an e-mail sent to him by Google . And thus it is that, at 4:16 p.m. on Sept. 13, Tom was alerted to the fact that I had left him this voice mail: Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Why Google Voice stinks

SANDWICH, Ill. — On Wednesday morning, as his tinted black bus pulled into Randy Hultgren’s congressional district, President Obama told residents that Republicans like Hultgren must be willing to raise taxes to reduce the deficit. A few hours and 90 miles away, Hultgren’s own constituents had picked up the message, repeatedly hectoring the freshman congressman at a town hall meeting to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations. “We have clear information that . . . tax cuts, especially to the super rich, has not increased any more jobs,” one man told him. “I want to know under what conditions you would be willing to consider increasing taxes, especially on those who can afford it? ” Read full article > >

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Democrats’ road tour strikes back at GOP’s stand against raising taxes

The day before he suffered a fatal tear in his heart last December, a frustrated Richard Holbrooke confided to a colleague: The Obama administration had tried everything to persuade Pakistan to crack down on terrorism, including threats and special-assistance packages, but none of it seemed to work. Why wasn’t Pakistan getting the message? The question posed by Holbrooke in his final hours as U.S. representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan looms even larger now. Despite years of American requests that Pakistan dismantle al-Qaeda and its allies, it turns out that Osama bin Laden had been hiding for six years near a military training academy two hours north of Islamabad. Read full article > >

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Pakistan is missing the U.S. message on terrorism

President Obama will hit the road this week and forcibly deliver his message that a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes on the rich is necessary to rein in the nation’s rocketing debt — a high-stakes effort to rally public support ahead of a series of contentious budget battles in Congress.

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Obama to hit road to rally support for debt reduction plan ahead of budget battles

Another example of him trying to solve a problem by ignoring it.

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Obama’s muddled message on the Middle East