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From the Right: Out of politics and into writing
“Welcome Mr. Rove and Mr. Carville. It’s very nice to meet you. I was surprised that you agreed to help me — and at such a reasonable rate.” “Mr. Edney, I was not too busy. I still can’t believe that just because I...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Elections, Fox News Channel (tv network), Minority Groups, NAACP
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Culture, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Barack Obama, Authors, State of the Union Address
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At midpoint of session, political divides are emerging
TALLAHASSEE -- Halfway through a legislative session that has seen a rebounding economy, replenished coffers and a spirit of cooperation between chambers and parties, the gravitational pull of politics is taking hold. Put 160 elected officeholders...
Tags: Public Employees, Elections, Government, Joe Negron, Medicaid
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...
Tags: Gun Control, Elections, Government, Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln
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The trouble with Obama's rhetoric: It bites the man who reads it
Once it was all about "hope and change." Now it's "we hope he changes." Barack Obama was marketed in 2008 as some kind of messianic political god, leaving the enraptured throngs unshaken in their faith that every word from his mouth was pure gold....
Tags: Charlotte, Elections, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Barack Obama, George W. Bush
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The virtues of a president with humble origins
Since World War II, Americans have tended to elect middle class presidents. With the exception of the two Bushes — the first of whom lost his second election, the second of whom "lost" his first — both parties succeeded by nominating...Tags: Elections, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party
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On student loans, Hugo Chavez and Joe Flacco's taxes
Remember when President Barack Obama stuck a federal takeover of the student loan program into the "Affordable Care Act," AKA "Obamacare"? The dirty deed was accompanied by a promise that federal control would save taxpayer money and cut off all the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, National Football League, Dallas Cowboys, Authors
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New pope, old question: Can you appreciate and object at the same time?
The white smoke had barely wafted away from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday when my friend Courtney, to my surprise, posted on Facebook, "We got a new Pope!" I bumped into her a while later. "Are you Catholic?" I asked. "No." "But you're excited...
Tags: Birth Control, Same-Sex Marriage, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Family Planning
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Medical Research, Al Franken, Medicaid, Science and Technology
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Can GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...
Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal, John McCain, Democratic Party
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians, Samuel A. Alito, Same-Sex Marriage
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Omission accomplished
If President Barack Obama goes on to lose to Mitt Romney next month, analysts will agree that Wednesday night's debate in Denver was the turning point, the moment when Obama began to lose his lead in the polls with a rambling, indifferent performance on...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Elections, Barack Obama, Government, George W. Bush
Apr 8, 2013
|Column| Imperial Valley Press Online
Apr 7, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Apr 5, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 5, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Sep 7, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 30, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 31, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 15, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 21, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Mar 29, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 28, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Oct 5, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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