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Tea Party Not Serious About Entitlement Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (8)Via National Review's David French, here's a New York Times report on a 40,000-member Tea Party "commission" on reducing the federal budget deficit.
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CLASS’s Failure a Sign of Obamacare’s Many Problems
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (3)Little by little, bit by bit, Obamacare seems to be falling apart.
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Who Will Protect Students From Bullying Teachers?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (13)In suburban Buffalo, a gay 14-yer-old boy was so taunted at school and online that he took his own life. In New Jersey, a school declaration of October as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender month for students was belittled on a Facebook page, with the writer calling homosexuality "a sin" that "breeds like cancer." And in Mobile, Ala., a second-grade special education student was mocked on Facebook by someone who donned the helmet the small child needs to wear for protection during seizures.
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King Joins Jefferson and Lincoln on the National Mall
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (7)A reason to be glad: the memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is done at last, dedicated Sunday in the presence of the first black president and at least one man by his side the day he died in 1968: Jesse Jackson, Sr.
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What Obama Should Tell the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement
Tweet Share on Facebook October 17, 2011 Comment (10)My admittedly impressionistic sense of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is that those who are protesting would like to see radical change in the way our economy is structured: that the very system of finance capitalism is the root of our troubles.
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Herman Cain Is Not a Serious Candidate for President
Tweet Share on Facebook October 17, 2011 Comment (28)Will someone please just give Herman Cain a chat show?
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Don’t Laugh at the Best Part of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Proposal
Tweet Share on Facebook October 14, 2011 Comment (8)Herman Cain's slogan-ready "9-9-9" tax reform proposal reminds Jon Huntsman of the price of a pizza pie.
I think of a monstrous, underrated Keith Richards guitar riff.
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Mississippi Voters May Change Abortion Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook October 14, 2011 Comment (31)The question of when life begins may be given needed clarity this November as voters in Mississippi are asked to render judgment on an initiative that would define "personhood."
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Stars Going Out in the NFL, Which Is Good
Tweet Share on Facebook October 14, 2011 Comment (1)Among corporate motivational phrases, it's one of the most hackneyed, and the most mocked: "There is no 'I' in 'Team.'" Of course, this is technically true in literal terms, and even true in an ideal workplace, but the star system in business, politics, sports and entertainment has become so pervasive that it's amazing those
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'Politico Primary' Shows Voter Discontent
Tweet Share on Facebook October 14, 2011 CommentHave you seen the results of the Politico Primary? That's the on-line contest to choose a hypothetical third-party candidate for president that ended this week. Politico nominated five candidates--Hillary Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus, Condoleezza Rice, Erskine Bowles and Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers--and readers nominated five more: Mark Warner, Gen. Colin Powell, Jon Huntsman, Michael Bloomberg and David Walker, the author of Comeback America and former comptroller general. No word from Politico on how many people voted, but they certainly promoted it on Politico's website, Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook, and on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Fun idea.
