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What Obama Should Address in the State of the Union
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2011 CommentThe State of the Union is to politics what the Super Bowl is to football. Both events involve weeks of analysis and predictions before a down is played or a word is spoken; they both cause onlookers to engage in superfluous and unnecessary standing ovations; and they are both marked by copious amounts of drinking. If you think I’m stretching the truth on the last one, I encourage you to Google “State of the Union” and “drinking game.”
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Deficit Helping Fiscal Conservatism Take Hold In Odd Places
Tweet Share on Facebook January 19, 2011 Comment (6)They say necessity is the mother of invention. But the opposite is also true: Luxury is the mother of neglect. That is where much of the Western world finds itself. In our prosperity, we have spent beyond our means and have neglected the difficult budgetary choices we have been confronted with. This has necessitated a return to fiscal conservatism, brought on by a frantic need to escape the consequences of our abandonment of spending restraint.
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Time for Bipartisan Agreement on Tax Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook January 12, 2011 Comment (6)There is no doubt I should be writing about the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. But the wild media narrative, which has taken every conceivable twist and turn, has veered into an area that I am loath to discuss. Partisan point scoring, which is what this whole tragedy has become, may drive website traffic, but it also drives me up the wall. The fact is, young adults are increasingly being driven away from the two parties by partisan attacks that appeal to a narrow, if influential, part of the base.
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The Growing Social Security and Medicare Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook January 5, 2011 Comment (21)It’s the beginning of a New Year, meaning crowded gyms, commercial breaks filled with weight-loss ads, and a glass-half-full attitude about the upcoming year. That glass half full should be just enough to dissolve my Alka Seltzer, because all this positivity is enough to give me heartburn.
