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Fiscal Cliff Deal Will Come Down to Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook December 31, 2012 CommentTo the world, it's the "fiscal cliff" that keeps Congress hanging around the halls of the Capitol until the last day of 2012.
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Obama's Newtown Shooting Speech Was Best of His Presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2012 CommentIn an hour of crisis and grief, the president has to tell the country some hard truths about itself. As he does that, he must also explain what it's all about, this country called America, all over again. President Obama did just that, at about the halfway mark of the two terms he was elected to serve. He looked as if he had aged a few years in a day.
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Two Insightful New Books on America's Forgotten History
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2012 CommentSome decades are better than others. And history is everything they never told you. I take these truths to be self-evident.
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The NFL and the Republican Party Are Sinking
Tweet Share on Facebook December 4, 2012 CommentDid you know in medical circles there's talk the NFL will only last another 15 years or so?
The medical evidence linking professional football's furious, jarring hits to the head and brain injury is that strong and overwhelming. Later in life, it all catches up to a guy, who succumbs to being a shell of himself. For wives, it's incredibly painful to witness their strong and mighty men become lost and weak, day by day, weeks giving way to months and years, relentlessly. Like a slow death march.
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a weekly Creators Syndicate columnist. Her op-eds on politics, culture, and history have appeared in newspapers across the nation, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She previously worked as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun and The Hill. Jamie's first journalism job was as an assignment editor at the CBS News bureau in London.
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