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Journal editorial pollutes Earth Day
Tweet Share on Facebook April 28, 2006 Comment (1)Earth Day has come and gone, but not before the editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal took a clumsy swing at it. To the surprise of no one who knows the Journal's political leanings, the real target was former Vice President Al Gore. He has always been a favorite punching bag of the Journal.
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Bush makes changes ... or does he?
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2006 CommentUnless there is a dramatic shift in the next few weeks, the changes so far in the Bush White House are largely cosmetic. Aides and chairs are being moved around, but there is no indication a stubborn president is ready to make any real policy changes at home or abroad.
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Keystone State could be key to Senate control
Tweet Share on Facebook April 20, 2006 Comment (2)PHILADELPHIA–No state is more important to Democrats in this year's off-year election than Pennsylvania.
Of all the Republican-held seats in the Senate coveted by the opposition, none is more so than the one held by Sen. Rick Santorum. Democrats are eager to send him home. For them, he is target No. 1.
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Bush the elder's task: fire Rummy
Tweet Share on Facebook April 18, 2006 CommentIn the matter of whether Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should stay at the Pentagon or retire to the good life: Former President George H. W. Bush should step in and tell him it's time to step aside.
Recall that it was George W. Bush himself who issued the tough talk to John Sununu, then chief of staff to Bush 41. Sununu was under fire for using government transportation for personal use, and his arrogant manner didn't help his cause.
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Hold your horses in the presidential race
Tweet Share on Facebook April 17, 2006 CommentThe 2008 presidential election is a distant 31 months away, and horse-race polls are already starting to appear in the media. Shame on us.
Will my brethren in the press please cease and desist for at least the next eight months or so? Every four years after a blizzard of polls preceding the election, we take a vow to make amends, but we never do. The temptation is just too great.
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Tom DeLay: a record-setting spinner
Tweet Share on Facebook April 12, 2006 CommentThe gold medal for political spinner of 2006 has already been retired. And the winner is: former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas, the soon-to-be-retired Hammer of the House.
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A press licks its wounds and presses on
Tweet Share on Facebook April 7, 2006 CommentMURFREESBORO, Tenn.–The press has inflicted deep wounds on itself in recent years, but not all is wrong or lost in the media. That was the message in a three-day conference here on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University.
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Media critics need to look in the mirror
Tweet Share on Facebook April 6, 2006 CommentLeave it to the right wing to cross the preposterous line just when you think it reached that point long ago.
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How war trumps abortion
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2006 CommentA recent survey by Maryknoll magazine, a journal published by a Roman Catholic missionary group, responded to an editorial calling for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
The response to the editorial reflected the sharp division in the country, not just among Catholics but among all Americans regardless of religion.
A Capital View
John W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.
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