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Asking Voters for ID Is Not a Race Issue
Tweet Share on Facebook June 24, 2011 Comment (66)So I was sick last week and went to the emergency room, where I had to show ID before I was seen by a doctor; he thought it might be appendicitis and sent me for a CT scan. Again, I had to show ID before being scanned. (By the way, I’m fine, just a bad stomach bug.) As I think about it, over the last month I’ve had to show ID to rent a car, fly on a plane, and get a hotel room. I’ve been asked for ID at the grocery store in order to buy a six-pack of beer, at office buildings in Washington so I could get past the lobby security guard, and at the bank to get a cash withdrawal. We all know what a hassle it is to have your wallet stolen—it’s not that the canceling of the credit cards is so bad, it’s the losing of the ID that makes it a crisis. These days, you have to show your ID for just about everything.
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Anthony Weiner Should Have Resigned Quietly Over Sexting Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook June 17, 2011 Comment (10)I thought I had already watched The World’s Most Excruciating Press Conference already, but that was the last time Anthony Weiner was on TV. This time was worse, except for the fact that at least he didn’t take questions again. As the cringe-inducing drama unfolded, complete with a heckler shouting obscenities in front of grandmas at the senior center, I thought: This is why God gave us written letters of resignation.
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Mitt Romney Was Right to Oppose Auto Bailouts
Tweet Share on Facebook June 10, 2011 Comment (24)Yesterday, Mitt Romney made his first campaign swing through Michigan for the 2012 cycle. Before he arrived, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm penned an opinion piece for Politico reminding voters of his famous 2008 New York Times op-ed entitled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” In it, Romney argued for a structured bankruptcy for the carmakers, rather than a government bailout. Granholm, in her piece this week, called on voters to “treat Romney the same way he treated the auto industry,” and added this:
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Unemployment Rate Highlights Obama's Failed Economic Policies
Tweet Share on Facebook June 3, 2011 Comment (21)This week’s economic news—today’s jobless numbers and the 280 point drop in the Dow on Wednesday, accompanied by dismal home sales, rising prices, and waning consumer confidence—certainly explain why a majority of the country thinks we remain on the wrong track as a nation. The tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear meltdown in Japan are continuing to affect our economy. The Middle East seems to be in more turmoil every day, and our troops remain in two foreign wars. Manufacturing growth is slumping, and job creation is weak. There’s a bad psychological effect every time we hear about another depressing economic downturn, just as there is every time we learn about more death and destruction from tornadoes in Alabama, Missouri, and Massachusetts, and rising floodwaters throughout the Midwest and South. Surely when lives are lost, businesses are destroyed, and families lose everything they own because of natural disasters, that affects unemployment, housing prices, and consumer spending. And certainly it would change your perspective about being on the right track.
