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September 15, 2016
Obamacare may be the GOP’s ace in the holeAnd, wonder of wonders, the GOP may be intelligently playing the ace in the hole Obamacare dealt it.
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September 11, 2016
Coffee, Cigarettes, and the Fog of War: Air Force One on 9/11Fascinating oral histories are emerging of the only plane in the sky on the day of the attack.
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September 2, 2016
Down ballot may be OKNew poll shows voters may dislike Clinton a bit less than they dislike Trump, but they aren't about to give her a mandate in the form of Democrat control of Congress.
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August 31, 2016
A long night for the newlywed GraysonsBack in May, recently divorced Congressman Alan Grayson, who was running to be the Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida, married Dena Minning, one of the candidates running for his congressional seat.
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August 19, 2016
Trump’s strategy on race issuesWhy did Donald Trump give a speech about how the Democrats have failed black Americans in a city that is the seat of a county with a black population of only 0.4%? Turns out there's a strategy.
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August 17, 2016
Will His Lawsuit against an Iron Chef Give Trump Indigestion?While the Trump University lawsuit has been getting the lion's share of the media, there is other litigation involving Trump that is currently in deposition stage. It involves Trump's luxury hotel project in Washington, D.C.
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August 17, 2016
State Fair Food Follows FashionTaste buds in my native Minnesota certainly have changed over the years. I think I'll pass on the Spam sushi
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August 13, 2016
A long line of losers in the White HouseOne little noted trend in recent presidential politics is that the winning candidates all experienced an election loss at some point in their political careers.
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August 13, 2016
The real Trump tweetsStriking analysis reveals two different sources of tweets for @realDonaldTrump.
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August 12, 2016
Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazierLurid accusations against Trump campaign
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August 11, 2016
Election threat assessmentWhat do Americans fear? The internals of a recent Monmouth University poll provide a lot to think about.
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August 10, 2016
Ryan vanquishes NehlenAll the national media attention probably increased the total turnout in Speaker Ryan's primary but not the result: A popular incumbent readily dispatched his quixotic challenger
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August 9, 2016
Where Trump needs to focusA road map of sorts for Donald Trump to identify which groups he must win over has been handed to him by one of his prominent conservative critics.
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August 7, 2016
Check out the internals on the latest Trump/Clinton poll from McClatchyVoting FOR versus voting AGAINST for each candidate: a demographic breakdown
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August 5, 2016
All in the (Trump) Family?Trump's family members may not have committed the amount of time to the campaign that is needed. They are young parents and have interests outside politics.
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August 4, 2016
A major anti-Hillary donor ventsBillionaire GOP donor writes a letter to Donald Trump
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July 31, 2016
Children of MonstersThe children of brutal dictators examined in Jay Nordlinger's new book.
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July 27, 2016
A 52 Pickup of Victim CardsA Hispanic psychology professor who has been a cause célèbre in feminist circles was finally sentenced to six years in prison earlier this month for her involvement in the April 1995 murder of Gonzalo Ramirez.
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July 21, 2016
Job title: Official Scapegoat?Interesting job Ms. McIver has with the Trump Organization, as it seems she has taken the fall for textual errors before.
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July 20, 2016
Was Melania intentionally rickrolled?An internet prank made its way into Melania Trump's convention speech. Now, what could that mean?
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July 20, 2016
Did Melania go rogue?It appears official, and I can see how this could be the source of rumors it has put the marriage in hot-water jeopardy.
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July 8, 2016
BLM just met a police department that serves the university eliteStories about the fatal shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota on Wednesday night have been a bit misleading when they identify the area where the incident occurred as suburban.
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July 5, 2016
Still no respect for LBJThe History Channel buries its own documentary that draws an implicit comparison to Obama. Hmmm...
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July 1, 2016
Hillary’s ad blitz and the defining of TrumpBe afraid: Hillary's $140-million ad blitz aimed at defining Donald Trump may be unfair, but it is awfully shrewd and devilishly targeted.
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June 30, 2016
Trump and the GOP Party Activists: Report from North CarolinaIn Western North Carolina, the people who volunteer to run the county campaign offices, work the phone banks, who man the sign crews that spread the names of the candidates for local offices and who serve as election judges are not happy.
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June 22, 2016
The Trump campaign and the Trump OrganizationNot only did the Trump campaign have less cash on hand at the beginning of June than the suspended campaigns of Ted Cruz and Ben Carson, but it appears that a lot of its spending went into the bank accounts of Trump-related entities.
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June 21, 2016
Bumpy GOP Convention Ride Ahead?Is the Republican Party anticipating a floor fight in Cleveland? That's how I read the Trump campaign's out of the blue firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
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June 20, 2016
Voter Photo ID: North Carolina Proves it works Very Well, IndeedThe numbers are now in from the first election in North Carolina in which voters had to present one of several forms of government issued photo identification cards. It turns out it wasn't much of an issue.
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June 18, 2016
Afghanistan fallout three decades laterI worry that the United States in 2016 bears an uncomfortable similarity to the Soviet Union in 1986. The list of nations that have been restored to greatness under a gerontocracy is short.
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June 17, 2016
Afghanistan fallout three decades laterI worry that the United States in 2016 bears an uncomfortable similarity to the Soviet Union in 1986. The list of nations that have been restored to greatness under a gerontocracy is short.
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June 14, 2016
Daniel Gilroy, the co-worker who warned of Omar Mateen’s deranged hatred, earlier was a victim of political correctness"I saw this coming," he said. Not the first time his words went unheeded.
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June 11, 2016
How Trump plans an event"The extraordinary role Trump has taken in his campaign, often acting as his own political strategist, communications adviser, and even scheduler."
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June 9, 2016
Trump and the down-ballotThe idea that Trump will be poison down the ballot is now being used to fire up Democrats who might not be all that keen on their own candidate.
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June 4, 2016
Who will be using opposite sex bathrooms under cover of being ‘transgender’?Based on Census data, an average American is 45 times more likely to encounter a registered sex offender than a transgendered individual.
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June 3, 2016
Alan Grayson’s unusual wedding present to his brideWhat does it say of our crony-ridden political system?
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May 13, 2016
The real minimum wage is zeroRobots replacing thousands of jobs at one fast food chain in the wake of minimum wage hikes.
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May 10, 2016
Judicial-driven election chaos in North CarolinaHow activist judges and Democrat so called "public interest" lawyers made a primary election into a total crap shoot.
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April 30, 2016
Choosing GOP convention delegates in North CarolinaOn Wednesday evening, I was a delegate at the convention of the 11th Congressional District of North Carolina.
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April 27, 2016
2016, the year of idealism, nihilism and obliviousnessRather than a dawn of a new era, this election marks the last ride of the "I can have it all" entitlement mentality that emerged in post WWII America.
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April 12, 2016
The world belongs to those who show upI am a delegate to both the North Carolina state GOP convention to be held in May and my congressional district convention next week. My political insider connection is that I showed up.
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April 8, 2016
There is no New York presidential primaryActually, 28 separate primaries, as 81 of the delegates will be distributed on the basis of results in the state's 27 congressional districts and 14 will distributed at large based on the statewide results.
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March 26, 2016
Trump’s wives and the women votersDo Trump apologists have a clue as to the visceral dislike many women, especially married women, have for any man who ditches his wife for a younger model?
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March 22, 2016
Spot the true crimeA cable TV documentary series through the wrong end of a telescope.
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March 21, 2016
Trump and Clinton: Mutual Assured Destruction?The 50 megaton dance step in this lame political pas de deux between narcissistic aging Baby Boomers whose ambitions exceed their talents is that of equally sleazy personal lives.
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March 14, 2016
Polled twice in 24 hours in North CarolinaAn indication of what the candidates want to know before Tuesday's primary.
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March 3, 2016
NBC preparing a blast from the past for Trump?Why did NBC recently ask to buy The Madness Of Donald Trump, a British 1995 documentary, including its unused footage?
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February 27, 2016
When the smartest guys in the room forget the value of traditionIt is a real puzzler how the marketing people, the senior NFL officials, or the management of the teams themselves forgot about some 13% or so of their normal TV audience.
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February 21, 2016
Trump and the DREAMersRemarks the MSM are studiously avoiding -- at least until Trump wins the nomination.
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February 20, 2016
Trump's fib of Hillaryesque proportion?We all know Trump constantly proclaims he is the greatest at just about everything. Add eyesight to the list.
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February 19, 2016
The Felonious Friends of Donald TrumpPerhaps Trump needs to look closer at whom he has called friends over the years before he accuses a political rival of having none.
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February 19, 2016
The pope and the Donald: A matter of perspectiveAdmonitions to tear down all the barriers one has erected around one's heart in order to open it to Christ's love is, after all, a standard theme in Christian sermons.
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February 16, 2016
Formative experiences: The young Sanders supportersChildren often first become aware of politics through their parents and teachers talking about political events.
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February 4, 2016
What the voting patterns in Iowa tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the top three GOP candidatesThere were some very distinct patterns visible in the urban, suburban, and rural counties of Iowa that reveal unexpected insight on what kind of person each of the three top finishers is.
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November 29, 2015
Interesting family background of the Colorado Springs shooterMany outlets have been saying the Colorado Springs shooter was from Western North Carolina, where I live. Since I have been active in the local prolife community, this bothered me. So I did a little snooping.
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October 19, 2015
Chicago Public Schools scandal affecting 2016 electionThe Chicago Machine’s Great Black Hope suddenly becomes damaged goods.
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October 15, 2015
More polling sample shenanigans?Another example of why you have to read the fine print when seeing poll results.
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October 13, 2015
What is being measured here?So why do the media promote early polls with careless to nonexistent screens as to who is likely to vote?
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October 8, 2015
The Trump bubbleIn his support for eminent domain takings, Donald Trump is opening two lines of attack in a general election that could make Mitt Romney's experience look like a picnic.
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August 16, 2015
'Scientific' Internet pollingSomething that recently happened to me raises issues about just how extensively internet pollsters can now tailor so called scientific polls to achieve the results their clients want.
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July 24, 2015
Nonsense and Sensiibilities among the TransgenderedYou have to try very hard to take the party spirit out of a homosexual pride event, but the social justice warrior types have shown they may be up to that challenge.
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July 5, 2015
Is Marriage On the Way Out?While many homosexuals take pride in being up with all the current trends, marriage has been trending down for some time now.
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July 5, 2015
Calvin Coolidge the most underappreciated president of the last centuryHistorians don't favor Presidents who try to shrink the size of the government, so we don't learn much about Coolidge in our history books.
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June 15, 2015
Rachel Dolezal case: Prepare for more shocksRachel Dolezal is assisting the victim who accused her older brother of assault. There is a hearing next week.
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June 15, 2015
What did Rachel Dolezal do to her adopted brother Izaiah?At the center of the story of Rachel Dolezal are her disagreements with her parents about the rearing of Izaiah, one of the four children the parents adopted.
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June 14, 2015
N. Carolina GOP puts the lie to media stereotypes with its new chairmanRepublicans, the party of "tired old white men"?
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June 1, 2015
The properly diverse candidate, Chicago StyleThe bizarre contortions of Illinois Democrats as they try to pick a "diverse" candidate for the US Senate seat held by Republican Mark Kirk.
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May 31, 2015
Hastert: the gift that keeps giving (to the Democrats)The damage Hastert is doing to the GOP now is just an encore for the lasting damage he accomplished by helping to hand Nancy Pelosi the Speaker's gavel in the 2006 election.
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April 20, 2015
Hillary's Nightmare: The Startling Parallels Between 'Inevitable' LBJ in 1968 and Hillary in 2016Watching the "inevitable" Hillary Clinton campaign across Iowa reminded me of another profoundly flawed human being whose nomination was also seen as inevitable 18 month before Election Day
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April 13, 2015
Stiffing the Tax Man: The part of the economy that has grown under ObamaWhy has the amount of currency in circulation increased at a time when online purchases and payment apps flourish, and almost all salary, wage and government entitlement payments are made via EFTs and debit cards?
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March 24, 2015
Strange bedfellows indeedI can't wait for the White House to complain that Alcee Hastings, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Elijah Cummings oppose President Obama because of racial animus.
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February 26, 2015
Is Rahm's rebranding fail a warning for Hillary?The factor that worked against Rahm could be Hillary's undoing
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February 23, 2015
A different perspective on Hope and ChangeJuan Williams, Justice Clarence Thomas, and the next generation of minorities.
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January 22, 2015
Only thing not leaking is party affiliationIf this Congressman were Republican it is good bet that not only would party affiliation be in the headline, but the story would be used nationwide as an example of the so-called "War on Women."
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January 5, 2015
No justice, no quiche?Over the weekend the #BlackLivesMatter activists barged into many Manhattan and Bay Area eateries as diners were trying to enjoy brunch.
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December 11, 2014
A Rolling Stone Does Gather CatfishWhat really happened at UVA in the alleged rape case starts to become much clearer.
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December 9, 2014
You can't make this stuff upTen years ago, the author of the discredited UVA rape tale wrote about Stephen Glass, whose fraudulent stories in the New Republic caused another national media scandal.
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November 24, 2014
Food Network's Hunger GamesThe Food Network is currently promoting a crusade to end childhood hunger in America. Something is truly out of whack here.
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November 4, 2014
Startling Change in North Carolina Early Voting PatternTarheel geezers on the rampage?
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October 8, 2014
Jane Austen in the White HouseForget about Rasputin as a metaphor for Valerie Jarrett's role in the Obama White House. She is a character straight out of a Jane Austen novel.
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September 26, 2014
It's official: trolls are fiendishAccording to a new study, trolls are very sick puppies, indeed
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September 25, 2014
Bitter abortion advocate demonstrates to Rush Limbaugh that no good deed goes unpunishedThe world of art is full of poseurs who routinely mistake progressive dogma for profound insight and garden-variety experiences as penetrating metaphor.
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September 16, 2014
TCM's Israeli Film Festival Tonight!Turner Classic Movies is featuring movies made about Israel this evening into the overnight hours. Three of them are seldom seen.
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September 3, 2014
Obama: The presidency that wasn't thereCan a two term presidency disappear down the academic memory hole? Yes it can!
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July 11, 2014
The return of tuberculosisThe revival of TB as a public health issue was a concern among community organizers and pubic defenders in Chicago back in the late 1980s and early 90s.
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July 11, 2014
World Cup schism?A cartoonist imagines native Argentinian Pope Francis and Pope Benedict VI, a German, discussing the upcoming World Cup Final
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July 1, 2014
A check does not an employee makeIf the Court had not opined upon the status of "full fledged public employees" yesterday, I suspect the next move would be for the SEIU to lobby Democrat pols to have welfare mothers declared state employees in order to lay claim to part of those monthly checks, too.
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June 25, 2014
Was Koskinen sent over from Central Casting?Does John Koskinen have a new career ahead?
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June 19, 2014
The ruling class ignores at its peril two important anniversaries coming upWe may currently have the worst political class since 1914.
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June 17, 2014
Democrat governor apologizes for gun control law he signedMany politicians of both parties seem to be listening to the loudest voices rather than the ones of those who elected them. This time, it hurt.
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June 14, 2014
New poll shows another incumbent Senate seat (and governorship) may be trouble for DemsBut only if Republicans can unite
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June 11, 2014
Hillary's selective memoryWhen she claimed to be "broke," Hillary neglected to mention a couple of multi-million dollar items pending
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June 8, 2014
An out for the Democrats?If the Democrats get desperate over their future prospects with Obama in office...
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May 22, 2014
Homeland Security likely to remain homelessEfforts to build a new HQ have become a fiasco.
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May 14, 2014
Dem voter ID fear-mongering collides with reality in rural North CarolinaNews the mainstream media will ignore
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March 11, 2014
Dems running into more Texas troubleThere is another roadblock on the Democrats' plan to turn Texas blue.
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March 7, 2014
Who is Ray Madrigal?And how did he get over 20% of the vote in Tuesday's Texas Democrat gubernatorial primary?
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February 26, 2014
Is AARP getting Obamacare blowback?I've noticed that the last two solicitations I have gotten from them did not contain a business reply envelope.
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February 25, 2014
The warm winter that wasn'tThe failure of the climatology experts to be able to predict major climate events three to six months into the future is an indisputable fact. Yet skepticism about longer climate trend prediction is labeled "anti-science"
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February 5, 2014
Twilight of Pelosi?Nancy Pelosi's list of allies in the Democratic Caucus grows ever thinner
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January 31, 2014
The next senior Democrat to drop out?Henry Waxman may soon have some more company in retiring from the House.
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January 28, 2014
Wendy Davis: As the Soap ChurnsThe political fortunes of Wendy Davis seem to have hit a whole new level of silliness
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January 15, 2014
Poverty, White Privilege, and Short MemoriesThe poor whites of Appalachia may have become unfashionable, but they have not gone anywhere.
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December 24, 2013
Reality Bites GaysAt the heart of the Duck Dynasty controversy is a modern paradox: those who most loudly celebrate the gay lifestyle seem to go into a Victorian swoon whenever anyone even obliquely mentions actual gay sex practices
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December 14, 2013
Female sexual predators in government schoolsIsn't it interesting that institutional rot is only seems to be the lesson to be taken away from a sexual-predation-of-minors story when the accused are priests?
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December 13, 2013
Barack and Michelle: The Love StoryI wonder if some of the White House photo restrictions are to avoid shots like this?
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December 12, 2013
What does Amazon know?I was online reading about the state of affairs in our nation's capital when I saw I had new e-mail
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December 12, 2013
Obamacare's opportunity costHow much in actual health care could have been paid for with the taxpayer amounts currently being spent on developing websites for people to sign up for health insurance plans they aren't happy with?
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December 11, 2013
What will Andrew Sullivan say?It turns out under Obamacare an insurance company may not refuse to cover someone who is HIV positive but they can make them pay for their own costly prescription drugs.
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December 11, 2013
A long flight back home for Barack (updated)Did an irate Michelle make misbehaving Barry switch seats at Mandela's funeral.
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December 4, 2013
The right comparison to healthcare.govPeople are using the wrong private sector systems to compare with healthcare.gov. Not Amazon or Kayak.com, but something equally familiar that demonstrates the incompetence of the government-run project.
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November 23, 2013
Another reason Senate Dems will rue the day they ended the filibusterBe careful what you wish for
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November 19, 2013
New York Times signals Dems that it's time to ditch Obamacare?The Times takes a sudden trip down memory lane to the time another big federal medical program was repealed.
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November 4, 2013
Virginia to Washington, D.C.: Take this county, please!The complex history underlying tomorrow's Virginia gubernatorial race.
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November 2, 2013
Obamacare apologists' faulty assumptionA comparison that strikes home for liberal elitists.
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October 18, 2013
The Ghost of Vietnam Will Haunt ObamacareThwarting the ambitions of the middle class does not end well for politicians
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October 15, 2013
Colorado recall effort targets another anti-gun state senatorThe biggest problem has been dealing with the large number of volunteers
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October 10, 2013
National Park Service: Wolves in Service Dog HarnessBefore last week the National Park Service had one of the most favorable images among federal agencies.
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October 8, 2013
National Park Service Gone Wild (updated)Stranding children at their school, unable to get home
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October 5, 2013
Hurting your friends?I have to wonder about the reversal of the decision to cancel the Navy-Air Force football game.
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October 3, 2013
All your parks are belong to usIt now appears a lease with the federal government is only as good as the President occupying the White House.
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October 1, 2013
Oops!The two most popular questions of those visiting the Healthcare.gov website do not augur well for Obamacare's success.
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September 29, 2013
Why are Incumbent Dems Hiding from Sunday Talk Shows?A sign of what Dems really think about the politics of the shutdown
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September 20, 2013
A new kind of woman popping up in advertisingI don't know what to make of this ad.
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September 18, 2013
Solar panels big issue for fire fightersA company installs solar roof panels to save energy costs. Then when there is a fire, the building burns down because the solar panels impeded firefighters.
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September 13, 2013
The Colorado recall was about more than gun controlThe political class badly wants to believe Tuesday's election was only about gun control and the NRA's clout. They're wrong again.
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September 7, 2013
Too Close for ComfortA personality assessment was written by a noted historian about a major world leader.
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September 5, 2013
The Guns of September?There are grand forces in human history. Then there are the actions of fools who think they can control events and who then start wars that spiral out of control.
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September 5, 2013
Syria splintering DemsThe potential to shred the Democratic Party at the grassroots level where a healthy chunk of money and volunteer manpower is anti-war on principle.
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September 2, 2013
Grinding to a haltLabor Day 2013 marks the demise of The Lusty Lady, the nation's only unionized peep show.
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August 17, 2013
Oprah's Farewell to MiddlebrowOprah Winfrey has always been able to read her audience keenly. I have to wonder if she now is targeting a different audience, because she always seems to have a purpose.
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August 16, 2013
Medicine's Whiz Kids?I am concerned that the takeover of American medicine by bureaucratic dictate may end in a disaster that will define an era, much as the Vietnam War defined my youth.
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August 15, 2013
Court slaps down Obama for disreagrding laws he doesn't likeIn a major rebuke on Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unusual writ of mandamus, which is a direct judicial order compelling the government to fulfill a legal obligation.
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August 1, 2013
Detroit City Charter is big problemHow the way Detroit's government is organized creates a bureaucratic logjam that makes the decline in services impossible to correct
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July 31, 2013
Poster GirlIt appears the vandal defacing public buildings and monuments in Washington DC is a 58 year old illegal immigrant.
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July 23, 2013
Detroit: Organized for failureA whole new form of city government must accompany the restructuring of its debt.
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July 20, 2013
New pop culture villains?I don't follow pop culture closely enough to say if this is a trend, but in the last month I've read two recently released mystery suspense novels with surprising villains.
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July 18, 2013
Angela Corey, bringing people togetherCorey has managed to united activists across the political spectrum in condemning her inflexible, grandstanding lunacy.
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July 8, 2013
Beyond parodyDid the New York Times really need to fret over the inequalities between coach and first class passengers mere hours after one of the most dramatic air crashes in the US in over a decade?
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July 4, 2013
Texas abortion fanatics too much even for Satan?Abortion fanatics too much even for Satan?
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July 3, 2013
Language lesson for pro-life peoplethe first step in winning most political arguments is to engage the target audience's emotions.
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June 28, 2013
Common problemWhat does the Governor and Legislature of Illinois have in common with the Management of the New York Times Company- besides a liberal worldview, that is?
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June 25, 2013
Prominent Blacks Deserting the Liberal PlantationAre we perhaps seeing the first cracks in the Democrats' black voting block?
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June 19, 2013
On the 12th Day of Xmas the NSA gave to meCould the NSA be how Santa knows who's been naughty and who's been nice?
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June 19, 2013
Where are the adoring crowds today?As the blank slate know as Obama gets filled in the size of his adoring crowd seems to greatly diminish.
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June 15, 2013
Blaming Cincinnati for IRS scandal is so wrongOne of the arcane bits of information in this scandal is that the so-called IRS Cincinnati Service Center hasn't been in Cincinnati or even in Ohio for many years now.
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November 29, 2012
Former IL Rep. Mel Reynolds seeks 'redemption' by running for Congress againSeeking Rep. Jesse Jackson's recently vacated seat.
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November 29, 2012
Who's getting rich off of GOP defeat?The web of ownership and (conflict of?) interests among the various Republican consulting operations
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November 11, 2012
Conservatives Harpooned by OrcaOnce again the party of Main Street lost because the K Street consultants running the show proved to be glib idiots, suitable only for chatting up cable news hosts.
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November 11, 2012
Orca implicationsI can't imagine Romney is happy with what happened with the GOTV but it looks like it could go further than that.
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November 11, 2012
Jesse Jackson Jr. Reported Plea BargainingHas Junior been checking out his new prison home?
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November 10, 2012
Lucky OHurricane Sandy left Romney in the position of the nice guy fiancé of the woman who has just heard the bad boy who let her down, refresh out of rehab, promise her it will all be different this time.
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November 7, 2012
So who stayed home?Make a liberal mad today, Remind them Obama fell about 2 million short of Bush's 2004 total.
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November 6, 2012
A stunning admission on pollingone newspaper now admits the poll it commissioned was sent back to be adjusted to fit the narrative. I always suspected this is what happens but now some in the press actually own up to it.
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November 4, 2012
Confession of a Former Low-Information VoterAs low-information voters look at their ballots in early voting stations this week and at the polls next Tuesday, I suspect that a great many will have thoughts similar to mine in 1980.
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November 1, 2012
Minnesota and Oregon Newspapers Not Endorsing ObamaA very different situation than 2008. These states were supposed to be a lock for Obama.
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October 31, 2012
A Sickly Pale BlueA few weeks back I picked out three states considered solid blue as possible upsets waiting to happen. Just look at what is going on, and consider the hidden assets of Romney.
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October 30, 2012
More signs Minnesota moving toward RomneyA state that hasn't voted Republican since Nixon's 49 state sweep apparently has been made competitive for Repubicans by Barack Obama's presidency.
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October 28, 2012
A Mile South & Four Years Later....Obama's staff was caught way off guard when the official campaign kickoff was unable to fill the arena at Ohio State. They won't be guilty of overestimating their space needs for election night.
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October 28, 2012
Minnesota in play?The notoriously biased Minnesota poll commissioned by the Minneapolis StarTribune has Romney within the margin of error.
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October 26, 2012
The Dems' long term strategic mistake?There have been recent stories about the Democratic Party embracing the affluent, single, and childless metropolitan voting block as its new power base -- to replace working class white voters.
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October 24, 2012
Obama's gonna need a bigger October Surprise than thisIt looks like that Gloria Allred's October Surprise is Maureen Stemberg, the woman who divorced the Staples founder a quarter of a century ago in a bitterly fought contest
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October 23, 2012
Horse Laughs for ObamaPresident Obama embarrassed himself last night on horses, bayonets and submarines.
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October 19, 2012
Minnesota"... You are a scumbag. You're a massive... You are a lowlife scumbag. You are a lowlife scumbag. You are a gutter dweller."
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October 18, 2012
Could Perot endorsement of Romney swing Minnesota?The national media sees Minnesota as solidly Democrat. It isn't. In 1992, Ross Perot earned 23.96% of the vote in Minnesota compared to his national average of 18.91%.
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October 13, 2012
My must read in the coming daysRetired State Department Foreign Service officer blogging on the hearings and more.
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October 12, 2012
Let the leaks beginVice President Biden doubled down on the bad intelligence excuse in last night's debate when the question of the deaths of American personnel in Libya was raised. This is merely compounding the folly.
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October 11, 2012
Media's Obama Narrative Collides with RealityIt's been a week since a 90-minute debate shifted the narrative of the 2012 election. The media haven't faced such a challenge to their accepted truths since 1991. Back then, they folded.
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October 6, 2012
The 70 million who watched the debateWhat do you make of the now 70 million audience estimate for Wednesday's debate? I think it means the conventional wisdom about there being few undecideds is all wet.
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October 5, 2012
Trouble in Obama's back yard?A news report suggests the Obama campaign may be getting a bit desperate in its moves to ensure a high turnout among Blacks in Chicago and its south suburbs.
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October 3, 2012
Elizabeth Warren and the 'little guy'Time for her to come clean on her role in the Dow Corning bankruptcy.
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October 2, 2012
Yes, we have no researchersGovernment employees union makes itself a laughingstock with new video.
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October 1, 2012
We are the 91%The most important unnoted characteristic of telephone polls (on which most of the political journalism these days seems focused)
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September 30, 2012
Your Universal Service Fee at WorkThat Universal Service Fee we pay as part of our phone bill each month has helped double the number of "free Obamaphones" in the hands of people in Ohio since last year to more than 1 million.
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September 22, 2012
Chick-fil-A wronged by media againIt pays never trust a news story these days. Chick-fil-A's charitable foundation didn't back off supporting groups that oppose gay marriage because of pressure by big city politicians.
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September 14, 2012
Insight on the Middle East from an unusual data pointExplains both anger on the Arab street and the absence of easy solutions.
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September 14, 2012
A lot of explaining to doWhy does Valerie Jarrett enjoy far more federal security protection than Ambassador Stevens had in Benghazi?
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September 11, 2012
Strictly a local problem?A candidate for Congress drops out the race because of a scandal and the story goes no further than the local section of the Washington Post. Her wrongdoing is something the media insists is not a real problem: vote fraud.
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September 7, 2012
Marching thru CharlotteAt noon on Wednesday I marched to help carry the pro life message to the Democratic National Convention.
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September 4, 2012
Welcome to the Hornet's Nest, DNCPresident Obama's heralded entry to Charlotte may turn out as badly as did that of General Cornwallis, who termed it "a nest of hornets."
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September 4, 2012
Boffo Box Office for 2016If a documentary by a left wing media darling like Michael Moore were performing this well at the box office there would be far more major news stories about the film and how well it is doing at the box office.
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September 2, 2012
If this had been a Republican...In the world the media occupies only Republicans wage war on women and create cultures of corruption.
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September 1, 2012
My name is OBAMANDIAS (updated: karma has struck)This is not a joke. Or it at least it isn't meant as one.
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August 31, 2012
Is Mitt Becoming More Conservative?It is axiomatic that all political campaigns move toward the political center as election day approaches. That doesn't seem to happening in this one.
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August 31, 2012
Imagine if a Republican...If "golf" and "Chicago" are no code words for black people, what does the media make of this? Very little it seems, since the offender is a Democrat.
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August 27, 2012
A Silver LiningThe media is so obsessed with the impact of the still mundane Tropical Storm Isaac on the political scene they may be missing the bigger picture.
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August 20, 2012
Southern Poverty Law Center's Lucrative 'Hate Group' LabelThe real reason SPLC called the Family Research Council a "hate group" is greed.
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August 20, 2012
Obama Underwater in Cook County?A new poll has Obama's support in Cook County, Illinois under 50%
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August 8, 2012
Another example of Obama's Chicago ValuesWhy show up at the oldest African American Parade in the nation, when you can be hobnobbing with rich crony donors a few blocks away instead?
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August 7, 2012
Lefty Wannabe Superman v homeless manWho is Spencer Thayer and why was he mocking a harmless old black dude reading his bible?
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August 3, 2012
Media finally find something to cover at Chick-fil-AHeavy media presence at L.A. Chick-fil-A "kiss in" requires police response.
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August 2, 2012
Chicago virtue versus Chicago valuesIt seems a great many residents of the Chicago area exhibited the admirable virtue of patriotism Tuesday by using their wallets to support the right of free speech.
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July 21, 2012
Jokers then and nowBack in 1996, the media hounded a conservative as unqualified for a position of responsibility, for making the same kind of mistake Brian Ross did.
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July 9, 2012
Carrying coal to DusseldorfAmericans are using less coal than ever thanks to our burgeoning supplies of natural gas. Meanwhile green worshiping Europe has been importing more American coal to power its electric plants.
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June 28, 2012
The White House Fast Food Soap OperaAn odd tale of marital tension may be playing itself out before the nation's eyes, as Michelle Obama devotes herself to healthier food while her husband eagerly stuffs his face out on the hustings with the junkiest of junk food.
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June 28, 2012
Back to We the PeopleThe promises Roberts made during his confirmation hearings cut both ways.
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June 22, 2012
Obama,the bride at every weddingI wonder if he was thinking of this when he reversed his position on gay marriage?
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June 20, 2012
Biden goes full Howard DeanWatch Vice President Biden rile up AFSCME. Someone badly needs to tell America's public employee unions that successful parasites know enough to stop short of killing their host species.
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June 19, 2012
To the Olympics for Ann RomneyFar from an effete "horse ballet," dressage has its roots in European mounted warfare. Dressage improves both horse and riders' balance and suppleness.
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June 8, 2012
Payback Is a Hound DogIt may simply be that Clinton hates Obama's guts -- and vice-versa.
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June 3, 2012
Oh those Geico commercialsCould the big insurance company be poking fun at the credentialed but not necessarily educated affirmative action hires that populate so many corporate HR departments?
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May 23, 2012
The Left and Con MenOne hazard of living in a world in which things have to be true simply because you want them to be true is such a world is also highly attractive to con men and women.
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May 20, 2012
Obama and Warren, the fabulistsFabulists rising to some of the most esteemed positions in our society have potential impact far beyond what people suspect. They lay bare a rottenness at the heart of academia, the media and government
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May 20, 2012
Arrogance in ChiefObama laughs as businesses in Chicago suffer from the anti-NATO demonstrations. Mr. Empathy he's not.
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May 19, 2012
Obama's Kenyan birth claim: The Kgosie Matthews factorHave you ever noticed how some white Americans go all giddy around some pompous ass with a British accent? I suspect that in the late 1980s Obama saw that some Chicago blacks acted the same way around educated black African immigrants.
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May 17, 2012
Hard to believe Obama didn't approve literary agent listing him as born in KenyaIt is going to be hard for the media to argue this was some inadvertent error as almost all the big names there have literary agents and know the unwritten rule that an author controls what gets said about the author.
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May 9, 2012
Crunching the North Carolina numbersWhile some pundits are having fun with Obama losing 41% of the West Virginia Democrat primary vote to a convict perhaps an even more troubling results for Obama can be found in Tuesday's North Carolina primary.
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May 5, 2012
Obama's Historical FictionDevices such as composite characters and shifting times to compress the narrative do not belong to the world of biography and autobiography.
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April 12, 2012
Too many Hilary RosensJay Carney claims "I know three, personally, women named Hilary Rosen."
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April 10, 2012
Hybrids: Once was enough for mostIt seems the majority of those who purchased hybrid cars in the past were not very satisified with their decision. According to a recent survey, only 35% of hybrid vehicle owners chose to purchase a hybrid again
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April 9, 2012
Guess who flunks the diversity test?It turns out John Derbyshire would be comfortable sending his kids to work there.
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March 29, 2012
Fashion iconsBack in the era when the fight for Civil Rights was a noble cause instead of a scam the image of a hooded figure carried a whole different meaning.
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March 23, 2012
Those who can't laugh are lostWell timed humor is far more effective than whiny feminist indignation
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March 22, 2012
The Chicago Way: a TimelineUp Next: Democrat power brokers appoint a crook who hasn't yet been caught
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March 21, 2012
What about the war against men?In response to the war on women theme I see a new trend. Men pushing back about the war against men as waged by women -- particularly baby boomer women over the last 30 years.
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March 21, 2012
The bad news from IllinoisThis situation tends to mean one of two things. Each alternative strongly favors the incumbent.
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March 20, 2012
Duties, Priorities, and ArroganceThere is much buzz today about how news stories of Malia Obama's Spring vacation in Mexico with her classmates keep getting sent down the Internet memory hole.
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March 3, 2012
Law School PrioritiesWhen I was in law school at Loyola in Chicago I needed coffee at lot more than I had time for sex. Shoudl law schools subsidize caffeine?
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January 27, 2012
Coincidence?The often controversial and always interesting libertarian scholar Charles Murray has a new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.
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January 26, 2012
Mitt, the OutsiderWhy does Mitt Romney have such a hard time connecting with voters?
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January 25, 2012
The bubble wrapped White HouseState of the Union nonsense won't sell with voters who fill gas tanks and pay uitlity bills.
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January 24, 2012
The unofficial end of global warming?Global warming must now be passé in Hollywood.
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January 23, 2012
Newt's New GameNewt gets this new decentralized and more populist political world in a way Romney's campaign hasn't yet grasped.
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December 21, 2011
Romney's Problem with Main StreetWhat Romney did to earn his fortune is very hard to explain in ten words or fewer.
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December 13, 2011
Warm, Fuzzy & On TargetThis year it may be that the only thing that says "I care" more than a Glock or an AR-15 would be the lessons at the gun range included in the package.
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December 10, 2011
GOP elites, the base, and the GOP brandIt wasn't Newt that damaged the brand. It was the far lesser men that replaced him, men who are on Romney's side .
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December 8, 2011
Two word responseRomney is sending surrogates to attack Newt. One of them is John Sununu. Two words are all that Newt should need to turn any attack from John Sununu into a positive
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December 3, 2011
Newt: The Civil WarriorBarack Obama and an ever more left-leaning national Democratic Party have brought long-simmering political and cultural differences to a point where it can be aptly said that America is in the middle of a cold civil war.
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October 13, 2011
Obama's marketing boo-booObama's marketing guru David Axelrod apparently never took to heart a lesson from one of the original Mad Men, Jerry Della Femina
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September 16, 2011
Huge fire on federal landsOnce the Forest Service was too aggressive in fighting fires. Now it may be too lax
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September 10, 2011
Ponzi Scheme PedigreeIt is instructive to look at where that term has been used before to describe the American Social Security system and by whom.
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September 7, 2011
DisillusionedAmong the swell set, disillusionment with OBama is turning out to be painful.
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September 7, 2011
Environmentalists self-destructingWhen your political movement conjures up images of trendy, self absorbed people spending obscene amounts of money on exotic produce, you should know that you are going to lose influence with people trying to make ends meet
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September 6, 2011
The Democrat Republicans want to run againstIf you asked Wisconsin Republicans to pick the Democrat they most want to run against for the seat the retiring Herb Kohl now holds...
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September 2, 2011
Obama's Joint Session BlunderThe controversy over President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress underscores his ignorance of history, his lack of understanding regarding the Constitution, and how lacking he is in political skills other than speechifying.
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August 30, 2011
From Yamhill to CluelessThe New York Times' Nick Kristof went back home to Yamhill, Oregon for a couple of weeks this summer.
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August 29, 2011
Doubting Thomas No MoreA new look at Justice Thomas's influence of the Court by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker sets the left's condescending verdict on his intellect on its head.
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August 28, 2011
Fretful practicesSerious questions surround an armed raid on the Gibson Guitar company.
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August 26, 2011
Hurricane danger inland, tooI urge readers in the Northeast who live inland from the path of Irene not to assume that being well away from the coast will protect them
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August 23, 2011
When the floor became the ceilingFor Obama, the bad old days are now the good old days.
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August 22, 2011
Pets, People, and CivilizationAs the rest of world civilization moves toward institutionalizing humane treatment of animals, Muslim civilization remains committed to hostility toward dogs.
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August 21, 2011
Obama boxes himself in on jobsThe green jobs strategy of the Obama administration has now boxed him in on job creation.
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August 13, 2011
Obama firearms boom continuesThere is one American industry that has done very well during the Obama administration, probably to his acute dismay.
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August 12, 2011
DOT targets farm tractorsOne of the rites of passage in rural life will be no mre if the DOT gets its way.
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August 11, 2011
Politics in command on economic policyHow about demanding Valerie Jarrett's resignation? By Obama's admission she's making the economic decisions.
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August 10, 2011
Fat for the firePresident Obama said on Monday that discretionary spending has been cut as far as is possible.
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August 8, 2011
The Price of Wishful ThinkingPositive and inclusive language combined with a very cool WASPish demeanor made independents and even center right Republican voters take a chance on Obama in 2008. Buyer's remorse is setting in.
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August 3, 2011
Build your own Obama speechThe Obama Board allows you to build your own Obama speech of grandeur. Just add your own phony Greek columns.
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July 22, 2011
Poll games: read those crosstabs!Today brings a classic example of why one should always follow the link to the poll itself, concentrating on the crosstabs while ignoring the media spin.
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July 21, 2011
Sauce for the GerrymanderFunny how North Carolina Democrats suddenly discovered the evils of gerrymandering when they no longer got to draw the maps.
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May 5, 2011
Michelle O's Porked-Up Food FollyThe idea that residents of rural America need an initiative planned by Michelle and her merry band of academic experts to be run by Washington based bureaucrats to help us put nutritious food on our tables is ludicrous.
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October 6, 2010
Another Demosaur Headed for Extinction?James Oberstar (D-MN-08) was running for his third term when I left the state in 1980, and he has never really faced a serious challenge. Times are changing.
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September 29, 2010
The Pigford Pig-Out and the ElectionIs the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s settlement of the Pigford class action suit about to become a 2010 election issue?
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August 26, 2010
Ad Wars: Republicans Are WinningIn an extraordinary political year, Republicans are finally grabbing the lead in advertising creativity and appeal, while Democrats are stumbling. Enjoy the videos!
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August 22, 2010
A President Who Wants to Be Anywhere but HereObama's political résumé is that of any office but the one he is in. Now, as he approaches the half-century mark, this restlessness may be catching up with him.
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August 21, 2010
Strip Mines into Elk HabitatAs many as 10,000 elk that freely roam in Eastern Kentucky today, though greenies rarely celebrate the fact.
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August 16, 2010
Two Cheers for Old-Fashioned Political ScoundrelsDan Rostenkowski, who died last week, was one of the last of the honest scoundrels.
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August 4, 2010
The Winds of Over-RegulationThe EPA is on the verge of declaring that naturally occurring dust is a pollutant.
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August 2, 2010
Shirley Sherrod and the Race Grievance IndustryShirley Sherrod ironically may help usher in a long-overdue post-racial era in America.
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July 27, 2010
Obama's White House Is 'Too White'?Who ever suspected that Andrew Breitbart was such an evil genius?
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April 11, 2010
Fair Tax DistractionReform is greatly needed. But conservatives must focus on effective means.
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March 22, 2010
Voter Backlash Beyond ObamaCareObamaCare is far from the only flashpoint of voter anger.
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March 15, 2010
No Taxation with Misrepresentation?If Congress passes a takeover of health care via dubious means, flaunting the consent of the governed, the consequences may be far more profound than dreamed by Reid, Pelosi, and Obama.
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February 7, 2010
A Trail of Broken Promises to NowhereA story that should be kept in mind whenever the government promises to do something in the future in return for a sacrifice by its citizens today.
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January 19, 2010
The Brown-Coakley Race, 1978 VersionSome analysts are wondering about historical analogies to what seems to have happened in the Massachusetts special election.
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January 14, 2010
Something about MarthaThere seems to be something about Martha that is making a segment of Massachusetts voters who normally vote Democrat pause to consider whether that is such a good idea this time around.
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December 4, 2009
Global Warming's New ClothesHow appropriate that President Obama and others will meet to push global warming fears in Copenhagen, the city where Hans Christian Andersen first published "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 1837.
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November 9, 2009
Fresh Faces Require Fresh TechniquesOne reason voters see all politicians as being more or less the same is that that so many candidates in each party follow a campaign template designed more to annoy than to enlighten.
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November 8, 2009
Who lost NY 23 for the GOP?There is an old saw in the art world that while critics love to talk about sweeping trends, when artists get together they usually talk about where one can find the best price on canvas and brushes.
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October 7, 2009
Flush with self righteousnessEnvironmentalist dreams are starting to rub Americans raw.
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September 8, 2009
The Democrats re-fight an old battleIt seems that a decades-old battle for the soul of the Democratic Party has reemerged in the Obama administration.
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August 19, 2009
Congress on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownWatching our political class fumble with the hot potato of ObamaCare has proven to make for a highly entertaining August.
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August 15, 2009
Some things don't changeIt was twenty years ago next Monday that a group of elderly protesters outside the Copernicus Center in Chicago taught Dan Rostenkowski that the world did not revolve around powerful Congressmen who thought they knew what was best for the masses.
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August 1, 2009
Honing those pitchforksStories have been coming out here and there about elected officials or their staffs not treating constituents with respect. This does not seem to be a good way to win support for Health Care Reform.
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July 26, 2009
The high cost of the simple lifeThe First Family will be vacationing on a 'sprawling gentleman's farm' on Martha's Vineyard in August.
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July 20, 2009
Hillary and Barack: Can this relationship be saved?The political marriage of convenience between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is fraying seriously in the face of the changed political dynamic in the last few weeks.
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July 11, 2009
Obamaville City LimitsAmericans have been voting with their feet against Democrat rule in corrupt and dysfunctional cities for half a century. Whole states can seem to empty out when things get too bad.
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June 22, 2009
Women and the Iranian UnrestAre the Ayatollahs learning that hell hath no fury like 34 million women scorned, forced out of the workplace, harassed and humiliated by religious police for three decades?
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June 14, 2009
Comedy, Bullies, and American PoliticsSaul Alinsky taught two generations of American leftists to use ridicule as a potent political weapon. When the left infiltrated America's entertainment outlets, the practice achieved industrial scale.
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June 8, 2009
Obama's Broken Feedback LoopHow does a president learn and grow, if the press won't criticize him, and instead treats him as a god.
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June 1, 2009
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May 30, 2009
What do women want? A timeless questionThe achievements of the feminist era may have delivered women to greater unhappiness than that supposedly found by Betty Friedan in the 1960s.
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March 14, 2009
Lessons from the Coldest WinterDouglas MacArthur and Barack Obama are one of the oddest pairings imaginable, yet they bear comparison.
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February 10, 2009
Who caused the housing bubble?Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act certainly did their part, but I know where the blame really lies for the housing bubble.
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October 17, 2008
Will an angry electorate hand the election to Obama?I sense a very angry electorate, but not a particularly nihilistic one. They know they have been kept in the dark and been fed a diet of compost about the anointed one.
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June 4, 2008
Father Pfleger Ousted by his CardinalPfleger's out. He's been asked by Cardinal George to take a leave of absence. The archdiocese has done the right thing, belatedly. But the stakes for it are higher than many might imagine
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May 16, 2008
The Lessons of West VirginiaI suppose it is fitting that the news media and the super delegates are ignoring the significance of a thrashing of monumental proportions.
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April 9, 2008
Obama's other spiritual mentor and the Catholic ChurchAnother far left clergyman, Father Michael Pfleger, has joined his Southside Chicago friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the media spotlight, thanks to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.
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January 25, 2008
Nonprofits Escaping Tax on Unrelated Business ActivitiesLarge and wealthy not-for-profit organizations are apparently escaping taxation on income earned on commercial ventures by offsetting the income with expenses from other activities
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October 17, 2007
Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory and Busted SodAnthropogenic theories of climate change have a neglected and tragic precedent of acceptance by consensus.
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November 3, 2006
The Big Loser in the Election: Old Media -
October 23, 2006
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September 17, 2006
Faith, Reason, the PC media and Islam -
September 8, 2006
A Modest Proposal for a Telecommuting Congress -
September 2, 2006
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July 19, 2006
The War Zone Within the New York Times Company -
May 31, 2006
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October 22, 2005
North Country -
October 12, 2005
A Modest Proposal