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Susan G. Komen's Good Girl Image and Hardball Abortion Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook February 7, 2012 Comment (4)The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation had better clean house, starting with the resignation of one Karen Handel, a vice president of public policy. The militantly antichoice Handel and her job should part ways after causing the worst public relations debacle of the 21st century: a move to break up with Planned Parenthood. The Komen foundation rescinded the decision after a maelstrom of public opinion, but it is still in real trouble. For starters, their races have lost a certain luster for many of us.
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George W. Bush's Legacy is No Laughing Matter
Tweet Share on Facebook January 30, 2012 Comment (17)You'd think he'd have the decency to stay at home.
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With Fairness, Obama Finds a Winning State of the Union Theme
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2012 Comment (5)The first populist speech President Obama ever gave to Congress was not a pretty thing. At the annual look in the mirror at the State of the Union yesterday, Obama firmly held the gaze--and the daze--of a deeply discouraged nation and offered up a smorgasboard of solutions.
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Newt Gingrich and South Carolina Were Made for Each Other
Tweet Share on Facebook January 23, 2012 Comment (4)Hot-headed South Carolina and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are made for each other. The state first to secede from the Union about 150 years ago remains defiant, mischievous, and unreconstructed. Not all states are created equal.
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Mitt Romney's New Hampshire Stakes
Tweet Share on Facebook January 10, 2012 Comment (4)Knowing former Gov. Mitt Romney, we know he knows the meaning of this Crimson college newspaper headline: "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29," a hallowed day in 1968 for Harvard history.
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Iowa Rewards Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul
Tweet Share on Facebook January 4, 2012 Comment (13)So this is what passes for fun on January 3, 2012 in Iowa: choosing the established pol Mitt Romney and the fast-surging Rick Santorum as the most eligible suitors of all those that came calling here, their eyes fixed on the dream of the White House. Iowa was a heartbreaker for the rest.
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In Defense of the Post Office
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2011 Comment (6)Our friends working overtime at the Post Office this holiday season deserve a heap more respect than they have been given--by Congress and by extension, the public. With every Christmas card you write, think of how far it goes and the hands that take it there, for 44 cents.
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Remembering Richard Holbrooke a Year after His Death
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2011 CommentThe bell tolls, the world weeps for Richard Holbrooke.
He made the earth seem small in his exuberant embrace,
holding a cell phone and flashing the blues.
Wish there were time and world enough for one more set before day is done,
before the last battle is lost—or won.
We will have for company a spirit that shall never be extinguished.
Yet just now, days before the winter solstice, the world is sadder, duller and darker—
and yes, lonelier without you, Richard Holbrooke.
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'New Domesticity' Is a Step Backwards for Women
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2011 Comment (17)Reader, beware the seeds of a pseudo-retro trend sown on the Washington Post Outlook pages about a week ago by a 29-year-old woman: a "new domesticity" which elegant writer Emily Matchar hopes will come to a kitchen or garden near you.
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Obama's America of Low Expectations
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2011 Comment (14)They say the best thing about Thanksgiving is the leftovers. This American adage may be especially true in the hard times the nation faces, beyond cranberry sauce and stuffing. The phrase that surfaces often in "all the news that's fit to print" is living in an age of lowered expectations—as opposed to the optimistic spirit of great expectations which we once embraced. Curbed expectations rule, for example, when the powers that be sigh with relief that the joblessness rate has not yet hit 10 percent. President Obama's America is not a happy place.
