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Sarah Palin for RNC Chair
Tweet Share on Facebook September 3, 2010 Comment (17)Notorious gangster John Dillinger, when asked why he robbed banks coyly replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”
By all accounts, it appears Tea Partyers and anti-establishment GOP candidates have recently adopted that same philosophy in colluding with Sarah Palin.
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Retiring the Myth of 'Big Labor'
Tweet Share on Facebook September 3, 2010 Comment (15)As Labor Day approaches, can we finally retire "Big Labor?"
Not the idea, necessarily--just the term, which has long been a stretch of a political term, and now is just absurd.
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The Sensible Way to Extend the Bush Tax Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook September 3, 2010 Comment (14)"This is ridiculous. What are we gonna do? Road trip!"
And with such pluck, the boys from Animal House headed on down the road.
Just like the Democrats in Washington.
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Why Is the Media Ignoring Discovery Channel Gunman's Radical Views?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 3, 2010 Comment (20)James Lee, who walked into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel Wednesday, taking hostages, was an environmental radical who believed people were destroying the planet.
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Gaza’s Problems Make Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Futile
Tweet Share on Facebook September 3, 2010 Comment (6)I would love to be wrong. But the Obama administration's decision to force Israel and the Palestinian Authority to sit down for peace talks strikes me as nothing but mere grandstanding. There's a three-sided war going on among Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party controls the West Bank. But Gaza is controlled by militant Hamas which seized it from the Palestinian Authority three years ago.
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Sexist Shots at Palin, Pelosi Signal New Backlash Against Women
Tweet Share on Facebook September 2, 2010 Comment (5)It’s comforting that women’s groups are inaugurating ``Name It, Change It,’’ an effort to identify sexist comments in campaign commentary and call out the offenders. It’s also depressing.
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Will Tea Party Acknowledge That Illegal Immigration Has Dropped?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 2, 2010 Comment (19)Dear Tea Party grumps. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and count you among the reality-based population. It is a long shot, I know, but I am going to assume you can still process and analyze facts, even if they clash with the scary worldview you are fed by the you know who's at you know where.
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Obama's Overreach Has Even Made GOP Competitive on the West Coast
Tweet Share on Facebook September 2, 2010 Comment (9)Pollster Scott Rasmussen’s release last week of data showing registered voters trusted the Republicans to handle 10 key issues--the economy, ethics and government corruption, taxes, the war on terror and national security, Iraq, Afghanistan, immigration, healthcare, education, and Social Security--more than they trusted the Democrats was treated by many as an outlier.
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Emotional Connection Helped Obama Speech on Iraq Succeed
Tweet Share on Facebook September 2, 2010 Comment (3)Most of the discussion about the president’s Iraq speech has focused on its political importance and the policy implications, but we shouldn’t undervalue its nonpolitical importance to the American psyche.
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In Campaign 2010 Democrats Should Hammer GOP on the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook September 2, 2010 Comment (8)In Terminator, a member of the underground from the future tells John Connor's mother, Sarah "The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." Democrats still have two months in which to determine their fates. If they get their message right, they can survive. Arnold Schwarenegger is not running for re-election in 2010 so he doesn't have to worry about the anti-incumbent fever sweeping the country. But Democratic incumbents in Congress do.
