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NEWS ABOUT: Gail Collins

Gail Collins stories: 8 news summaries
Gail Collins

Welcome to
the Conspiracy
to Ration Mammograms

Don't you dare deny us unnecessary tests!

Nov 19, 09 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Republicans are right: the new government guidelines urging women not to have mammograms in their 40s are definitely a nefarious conspiracy to start rationing care. “Whatever happens, we do not want the government conducting any studies on whether current health practices actually do any good,” writes Gail Collins... More »

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breast cancer • preventative medicine • rationing • mammogram • Gail Collins • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

OPINION

 Collins: 
 For Once, I'm on  
 Sarah Palin's Side 

Ex-boyfriend's assessment of Palin family is a mom's nightmare

Sep 3, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Levi Johnston’s Vanity Fair interview, he says the Palin family is “much different” from a “normal family”—but maybe he’s not the best judge, given that he’s “a 19-year-old high school dropout whose mother was arrested on six felony drug counts,”... More »

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Gail Collins • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

OPINION

 Lesson Learned 
 From Sanford: 
 He's Nuts 

Another middle-aged heterosexual leader trips up

Jun 25, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford’s appearance yesterday taught us something important: He’s “a complete loony,” writes Gail Collins in the New York Times. We should thank him, really, for providing us with a governor “weirder than Rod Blagojevich and less responsible than Eliot Spitzer.” Once, he was... More »

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South Carolina • governor • Gail Collins • political scandal • Mark Sanford • extramarital affair

OPINION

Don't Let 'Waste' Taunts Prompt More Waste

Obama shouldn't scrap chopper deal just to appease McCain

May 14, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fearful of appearing wasteful, the Defense Department wants to dump a contract for new presidential helicopters and start fresh—but that means losing $4 billion already spent on the project. It’s the same old story when it comes to “wasteful procurement,” writes Gail Collins in the New ... More »

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John McCain • government spending • Department of Defense • helicopter • procurement • Gail Collins • government contracts • President Obama

OPINION

Bristol as a Role Model?
You Must Be Kidding


May 7, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the Candie’s teen fashion line came under fire for dressing high school girls like hookers, it formed a nonprofit to fight teen pregnancy. And when the foundation needed a “teen ambassador,” it called Bristol Palin. “Can I say upfront that this is a terrible, terrible... More »

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abstinence education • teen pregnancy • Gail Collins • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

OPINION

 Hey, Obamaniacs: 
 Here Are Your Answers 

Wait, bipartisanship means we have to listen to Republicans?

Feb 7, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - If you’re a card-carrying Obama fan, chances are “you’ve been feeling unstimulated” with the news of late, Gail Collins writes in the New York Times. But don’t worry, she has the answers to all your burning questions:
  • How could so many Cabinet nominees
... More »

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Barack Obama • Gail Collins • Tom Daschle • bipartisanship • Obama administration • Judd Gregg • bipartisan

COMMENTARY

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

Gail Collins has been palling around with terrorists, too

Oct 9, 08 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - So William Ayers once threw a house party for Barack Obama, and now Obama’s responsible for all Ayers’ misdeeds? By that standard, writes Gail Collins—who might have attended a college party with Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn—"I believe I may now be held partly responsible for all... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorist • Gail Collins • Keating Five • Bill Ayers

OPINION

She Got Out
of Jail Free

Times scribe: Clinton got 'sympathy vote' from women who recognized her vulnerability

Jan 10, 08 2:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton had a “horrendous week” in the lead-up to Tuesday's New Hampshire primary—and won not on merit, but on a “sympathy vote” from women who saw themselves in her, exhausted and “overdosed on multitasking.” The New York Times’ Gail Collins argues that women recognized... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • New Hampshire • sympathy • New Hampshire primary • Gail Collins

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