Monday's Daily Brief: Log Cabin Republicans Go After Chuck Hagel's Gay Rights Record, Banks Reach $8.5 Billion Deal With Regulators Over Foreclosure Abuses

Monday, January 7, 2013 Log Cabin Republicans Criticize Chuck Hagel's Gay Rights Record POLITICS Blast From the Past: Why Chuck Hagel Is Such an Inspired Choice BUSINESS BofA To Pay Fannie Mae Billions Over Shoddy Mortgages MEDIA NBC's Warning To Donald Trump WORLD Indian Women Hope Brutal Gang Rape Will Spark Change COMEDY Leno's Not Leaving 'The Tonight Show' BLOG POSTS Christophe de Margerie: Ours Are Emerging Times The new actors of globalization aren't concepts or acronyms; they aren't even regions or countries. They are individual women and men, and it is time we became acquainted with them. Oprah Winfrey: What I Wish I Knew At 21 No matter what you're struggling through -- no matter the pain or anguish -- you can go inside behind your mind and observe it happening to you. Whatever it is, it isn't you. You are the observer. When you come to know this, you realize that even though the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you're the one controlling the brush. Bill McKibben: Obama Versus Physics It's not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We're talking about a fight between human beings and physics. And physics is entirely uninterested in human timetables. Michael Moore: Dear Bill Kristol: More People Than You Thought Are Vulgar, Disgusting and Far-Left Bill, I see you're mad that back in 2007 former Sen. Chuck Hagel said that we were obviously "fighting for oil" in Iraq. You explain this was "vulgar and disgusting" and "could be the straw that breaks the back of Hagel's chances" to be Obama's next Defense Secretary. Lev Raphael: How You Know You've Watched Too Much Downton Abbey Whenever Matthew protests he can't inherit money from his ex-fiancee's father because it would be "wrong," you imagine Lady Mary braining him with a vase.

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