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How Walker, Christie, Kasich Can Beat the Union Bosses
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2011 Comment (8)If there ever was any doubt, it has become clear that the real story of the 2010 election was not the Republicans’ regaining control of the House of Representatives. With the new Congress, like its predecessor, doing what it does best—going on break—public attention has rightly shifted to the states.
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Obama Lacks a Sense of Urgency on Deficit, National Debt
Tweet Share on Facebook February 16, 2011 Comment (4)President Barack Obama may have meant it when he said that he hastily called a news conference this week to give Jay Carney, his new press secretary, “one more taste of freedom” from the press. (Since replacing Robert Gibbs, early this week, Carney had not as of yet had to take reporters’ questions from the podium.) It has, after all, been through Obama’s unscripted moments that we have come to know what is really thinking.
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Glenn Beck Finds Inventive Ways to Butcher History
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2011 Comment (35)Glenn Beck has done what I thought impossible. He made me take to defending Woodrow Wilson. As the line in the old Al Jolson/Judy Garland song had it, “I didn’t want to do it.”
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Huntsman Injects Excitement into 2012 GOP Presidential Race
Tweet Share on Facebook February 2, 2011 Comment (4)Through the simple act of resigning as the United States Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, Jr., has injected considerable excitement into the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes. The sheer attention the mere possibility of the businessman-turned governor-turned diplomat is attracting says much about the current state of the race and even more about what the party’s primary voters may be seeking in their next presidential nominee.
