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The Trap for Mitt Romney in the Foreign Policy Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2012 CommentWe all saw former Gov. Mitt Romney's bravura show Wednesday night.
It was a great performance, in skill and virtuosity like nothing seen in living memory. Romney managed the trick of neatly parrying every one of President Obama's attacks, putting the president on the defensive, and establishing himself as a nice guy along the way.
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Use Social Media to Combat Terrorism
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2012 CommentThe United States, which invented social media, is now at the mercy of physical attack inspired by social media. What will it take for us to get into this game?
Friday morning, my son had to join hordes of other college students in evacuating his university campus. The reason? A phoned-in bomb threat from someone purporting to be from al Qaeda.
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GOP Would Be Better Off Without Jim DeMint
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2012 CommentWhen the political history of our times is written, who will be seen as the most effective defender of abortion rights, raising taxes, stimulus spending, and liberal control of the U.S. Senate? Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York? Billionaire leftist George Soros? President Bill Clinton, the happy warrior of the Democratic Party? Or Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Tea Party Republican who is adamantly prolife, and against tax increases and runaway federal spending? DeMint, friend and ally of Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, has put the blow into blowback, the boom into boomerang, the lash in backlash.
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Giving to Animal Causes Can Help Humans, Too
Tweet Share on Facebook August 10, 2012 CommentThis month marks the five-year anniversary of the death of Leona Helmsley, the billionaire real estate investor who famously bequeathed $12 million to her Maltese, Trouble (later reduced to a mere $2 million by a Manhattan judge).
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What Joe Arpaio’s Birther Charge Tells Us About America
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2012 CommentSeeing clues that elude most of the world, Arizona's Joe Arpaio—Sheriff of Maricopa County and full-time gadfly—held a press conference this week to announce that President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate looks like a digital forgery.
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How Mitt Romney Can Run on the Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentFor partisans, election years are a time to experience the highs and lows of manic depression. Your candidate and his followers can be lifted on the wings of angels to the mountaintop, only to be plunged straight into the valley of despair, and vice versa, several times over before the contest mercifully ends.
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What John Edwards Tells Us About the Legal Profession
Tweet Share on Facebook June 1, 2012 CommentImagine if four CEOs of America's biggest companies—for the sake of argument say Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Mike Duke of Walmart, Jeff Immelt of General Electric, and Rex Tillerson of Exxon-Mobil—were all charged with serious crimes, with three of them actually going to prison. Imagine the media handwringing and teeth-gnashing over the ethical state of corporate America such scandals would inspire, as well as the rush by business schools to upgrade business ethics courses.
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Elizabeth Warren and What Really Makes a Native American
Tweet Share on Facebook May 4, 2012 Comment (30)In an old sepia-toned photo, Greenberry Jenkins sits upright, unsmiling as all people had to do when exposures were agonizingly slow. But one gets the immediate sense that the camera did not matter much to him—this was a man who went through life with a poker face.
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Why President Obama's Nuclear Weapons Policy Is Dangerous
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2012 Comment (20)The media is abuzz with talk of Metta World Peace’s suspension, Colombian prostitutes, and whether or not Lindsay Lohan will do a good job portraying Elizabeth Taylor. One thing you won’t hear much about is nuclear weapons.
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Why the TSA Searches Grandmothers and Toddlers
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2012 Comment (65)Hardly a day goes by that the press and blogs don't blaze with fresh fury over the latest Transportation Security Administration outrage, usually the "manhandling" of, take your pick:
