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Abortion and gay marriage: Not all social issues are the same
Just because things can be put on the same list doesn't mean they are necessarily similar. My attic contains within it thousands of comic books, an inflatable bed, some jigsaw puzzles, some family pictures and a "Frampton Comes Alive!" album. These things...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Michael Bloomberg, Marriage, Family, Abortion
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The bias against working women
In proclaiming March as Women's History Month, President Obama stated that "too many women feel the weight of discrimination on their shoulders." Liberals often make this claim, citing the fact that women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men,...
Tags: Social Security, Discrimination, Minority Groups, Retirement, Social Issues
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The Cyprus confusion
WASHINGTON -- Logically, what happens in Cyprus should stay in Cyprus. With a population of just over 1 million and an economy that's a mere 0.2 percent of the 17-nation eurozone, the country seems too small to matter on the world stage. Yet, that's where...Tags: Economic Indicator, International Monetary Fund, Cyprus, Economy, Business and Finance, Gross Domestic Product
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John Boehner on ‘This Week’; Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelHouse Speaker John Boehner speaks at a Thursday press briefing on Capitol Hill. Photo credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: The Sunday morning guest list: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to Martha Raddatz on ABC's “... -
Paul Ryan's new budget is no help to Republicans
Some of Paul Ryan's biggest fans are disappointed in his latest budget. Take New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. He credits Ryan, the Republican House Budget Committee chairman, for trying to give Medicare recipients the power and the incentive to...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Elections, Medicare, Barack Obama
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We the few, the brave
The Baltimore SunThe estimable Jonathon Owen has published an article on towards and toward at Visual Thesaurus, presenting an interesting and plausible theory that the prevalence of the latter form in American published writing can be attributed to the efforts of copy...Tags: Mundelein
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Rand Paul stood up for us all
I hope I'm not too late to the fight. Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for 13 hours was that...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Republican Party, The Wall Street Journal, Lindsey O. Graham, Eric Holder
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Why we shouldn't raise the minimum wage
In announcing his wrongheaded proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour, President Obama spoke in lofty terms: "In the wealthiest nation on Earth," he said in his State of the Union address last month, "no one who works full time should have...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Labor Legislation, Personal Income, Employment Opportunities
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Joe Biden, Elections, Jim DeMint
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On sequestration, Obama becomes extortionist in chief
At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government "shut down" because of an impasse between President Bill Clinton and House Republicans led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending....Tags: Government, Tiger Woods, Republican Party, National Government, The Wall Street Journal
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COLUMN: Obama's second term offers recipe for conservative revival
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. President Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-...Tags: Environmental Issues, The Wall Street Journal, World War II (1939-1945), Unemployment Benefits, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Rethinking our China strategy
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the...
Tags: China, Central Intelligence Agency, Iran, Robert Zoellick, Elections
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Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 15, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 13, 2013
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Mar 10, 2013
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Dec 10, 2012
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Jan 27, 2013
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Jan 27, 2013
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