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Obama's AP, Benghazi and IRS Scandals Offer a Distraction for the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook May 16, 2013 CommentThe president's problems come at a good time for Republicans. In the last couple of months the GOP has been repeating the mistakes that led it to defeat in 2012. The media focus on President Obama might just get the GOP off the hook.
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Obama’s Careful Path in Syria’s Civil War
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentSomeone once said that 90 percent of success came just for showing up. That certainly wasn't the case for former President George W. Bush. He showed up on an aircraft carrier to assure us that the worst was over. But the real agony hadn't even begun.
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Gun Vote Signals Decline of American Democracy
Tweet Share on Facebook April 22, 2013 CommentThe United States faces many grave challenges, such as declining living standards, global warming, rogue nuclear regimes, gun violence and now domestic terrorism. But none are as fundamental as or more pressing than the decline of democracy.
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Americans Hate Congress Because Congress Doesn’t Care About Americans
Tweet Share on Facebook April 8, 2013 CommentIs it any wonder that Americans dislike Congress so much? It shouldn't be a surprise because our representatives in Washington ignore public opinion. Gun control is the perfect example. A clear majority of people favors a ban on assault weapons (57 percent favor and 41 percent oppose, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll). But members of Congress can't even agree on universal background checks which just about every living and breathing American favors. (91 percent according to ABC News/Washington Post.)
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Republicans Are Losing the American Culture War
Tweet Share on Facebook April 1, 2013 CommentThe culture wars are back and this time the left is winning.
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The Supreme Court May Punt on Gay Marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook March 27, 2013 CommentPredicting a Supreme Court decision is almost as risky as the predicting the identity of a lottery winner. There were only a few people who thought that Chief Justice John Roberts would vote to affirm the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. I was not one of them, but I had a lot of company.
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How to Rebrand the Republican Party
Tweet Share on Facebook March 21, 2013 CommentScientists believe that dinosaurs roamed the earth until their extinction 65 million years ago. The religious right believes dinosaurs were with us until six thousand years ago. They're both wrong. Anybody who watched the Conservative Political Action Committee conference last weekend or the Republican Party for the last few years knows the giant reptiles are still with us.
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Paul Ryan's Budget Is an Accounting of Misplaced Priorities
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2013 CommentIf you're the parent of young children, batten down the hatches. Under the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., fewer children will get the head start in life they need in order to compete in the new global marketplace.
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3 Ways Republicans Are Out of Touch
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2013 Comment"Out of touch and out of luck" should be the new Republican Party slogan. A new survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that three of every five (60 percent) Americans believe the Republican Party is out of touch with America. Why would so many Americans think the GOP is out of touch? Let me count the ways.
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President Obama Lets His Liberal Flag Fly
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2013 CommentCongress is back in Washington next week. The question facing the members of Congress is whether President Obama's education and infrastructure initiatives are too hot for them to handle.
