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Can 'Young Guns' Ryan, Cantor, and McCarthy Change the GOP?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (10)Take a look at the publisher’s description on Amazon of Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders by Reps. Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy:
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When Did Glenn Beck Become a Megalomaniac?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (28)As the reactions to last weekend’s “Restoring Honor” rally pile up, pro and con, I’m reminded of the first time I was actually exposed to the guy--in this January 2007 Washington Post interview profile by David Segal.
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Beck's Religiosity Much Different Than Lincoln's or King's
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (14)This is a thank you note to Mr. Stone of North Carolina and a few other gentlemen who took the time to write in response to yesterday’s blog post regarding the recent Glenn Beck rally in Washington. They rightly point out that Abraham Lincoln spoke of God hauntingly in his last speech shortly before he died, the incomparable Second Inaugural Address.
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Poll Gives Republicans Biggest Lead in 2010 Election
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (12)Will anyone be happier to see August go than Democrats? The party has been languishing in the worst kind of political summer doldrums, buffeted both by the president dipping his toe into unpopular end of a transitory political debate--regarding the so-called "ground zero mosque"--and by continuing bad news on more enduring issues, namely unemployment and the economy. What better capstone to the month, then, than the latest Gallup generic ballot for the 2010 midterm elections, giving Republicans a 10 point lead, their biggest ever.
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King’s Niece Picked the Wrong Fight at Glenn Beck’s D.C. Rally
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (53)I agree with the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart who says self-proclaimed King legacy heir, and niece, Alveda King had every right to speak her mind at Glenn Beck's controversial rally in Washington, D.C., this past weekend. But I and others like me have just as much right to proclaim her tacky and wrong-headed in using the occasion to speak out against gay and abortion rights. Capehart's beef is not exactly the same as mine.
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Embattled Democrat Calls for Obama to Fire Economic Team
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (15)CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Rep. Tom Perriello from Virginia’s Fifth District is one of the most targeted and endangered House Democrats in the country and he knows it.
In his quest for re-election, Perriello has been traveling his district nonstop and talking to just about anyone who will listen to him, including a Charlottesville Tea Party group last week. There might not have been five votes in the room for him, and Perriello had to listen to people stand up and say they couldn’t wait for him to be defeated, but he kept his cool.
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A Model for Education Consensus Faces an Uncertain Future
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (4)Today is the first day of school in our suburban jurisdiction. The bus stops were crowded with parents, taking photographs of the new first graders and kindergarten kids.
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Obama's Politics Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (10)One of the great mysteries of the Obama administration has been how someone with such great gifts for public communications, and an apparent understanding of its importance--remember "words matter"?--could have done such a dismal job of communicating and communing with the American public. In his Washington Post column today E.J. Dionne offers a pretty good insight into this failure. It turns out Obama has a Bush problem, and I'm not talking about W.
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Lincoln Reacts to Glenn Beck and His Tea Party Visitors
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (25)Who were those people disturbing a body's summer morning peace? Why were they on the marble steps of my front porch, deluging me from every direction? My friends, in all my years on this chair in this temple of democracy, this rambling talk of 'restoring honor,' leaves me of all people--speechless!
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Republicans Should Focus on Fiscal Issues, Not “Liberal Bigotry”
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (1)Last week I wrote about the Democrats’ panic over the looming fall elections and their strategy of demonizing Republican candidates as a way to hold on to power. In his column Friday, Charles Krauthammer talked about “liberalism under seige” and what an ugly sight that is. His evidence of liberals’ panic: the “promiscuous charges of bigotry” that the left uses against those who oppose its positions on everything from spending to immigration to the New York mosque:
