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Newt Gingrich's South Carolina Win Proves 2012 Race Still Wide Open
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2012 Comment (5)The fight for Florida began Monday as the dust from South Carolina continued to settle.
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State of the Union Trivia and History
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2012 Comment (2)The identity of the first president to deliver a State of the Union address before Congress probably won’t surprise anyone—George Washington. But readers might be interested to learn that the first president to deliver a speech known as a “State of the Union address” was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read on for an explanation of those and other firsts, and other bits of trivia and history of the State of the Union address.
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Newt Gingrich and South Carolina Were Made for Each Other
Tweet Share on Facebook January 23, 2012 Comment (4)Hot-headed South Carolina and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are made for each other. The state first to secede from the Union about 150 years ago remains defiant, mischievous, and unreconstructed. Not all states are created equal.
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How Mitt Romney Can Make His Tax Returns a Winning Issue
Tweet Share on Facebook January 23, 2012 Comment (6)Everyone knows that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had a very bad Saturday night. Losing South Carolina's primary by 12 points should qualify as a profound wake-up call to his campaign. But, as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Palmetto State comeback clearly demonstrated, great challenges sometimes provide great opportunities. Romney, who stumbled over and has not yet recovered from his tax return brouhaha, should use this as a chance to embrace dramatic tax reform. As a committed advocate of transforming the tax code, Romney would be in a much stronger position to answer critics clamoring for his own tax filings. After all, the current code is bizarrely constructed and filled with provisions that distort economic decision-making.
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Gabrielle Giffords Resigns, Leaving Congress With One Less Woman
Tweet Share on Facebook January 23, 2012 Comment (4)Is there anyone who isn't impressed with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords?
There are, of course, those who would disagree with her political views. But the Arizona Democrat has shown remarkable courage, optimism, and determination as she recovers from a bullet wound to the head she received while meeting with constituents a year ago. Even in Washington's hyper-partisan environment, the support for Giffords was bipartisan and genuine. House Speaker John Boehner (unfairly slammed for not making it to the memorial service for those killed in the shopping center attack) gave a beautiful speech on the floor, pointing out the critical truth that an attack on one member of Congress was an attack on all of them. President Obama delivered a powerful and moving address at the memorial service for the slain. And while election-year politics have kept Washington in its bitterly divided state, there is universal and sincere concern for Giffords.
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Understanding Mitt Romney's Bain Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook January 23, 2012 Comment (4)The beauty of modern computational finance, or financial engineering, is how much wealth it can create beyond that which is produced through toil or invention.
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Barack Obama’s Tax Hikes: 21 Down, More to Come
Tweet Share on Facebook January 21, 2012 Comment (10)It's looking more and more like President Barack Obama's principal reason for wanting to be president was so that he would be in a position to spend the people's money. Under his leadership—or lack thereof—the national debt has increased by more than 40 percent to almost $49,000 per person.
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Why Newt Gingrich's 'Open Marriage' Request Matters
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2012 Comment (40)Here's the problem with yet another men-behaving-badly story that came out Thursday, the one in which former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's second wife, Marianne Gingrich, told ABC and the Washington Post that he asked her for permission to have an affair, or as she put it, an "open marriage." When she refused, he divorced her and hasn't spoken to her since. And this was after he asked his first wife for a divorce when she was suffering from uterine cancer, in order to marry his second wife. Gingrich said at last night's debate that the "open marriage" story is false, but given his history of affairs and divorces, Marianne Gingrich's allegations strike me as credible. Who knows what the truth really is between two people, but if I had to pick, I'd believe Marianne Gingrich's version over Newt's version. Her allegations fits with the track record he's got: you just never know what's going to come out of his mouth—including asking for an "open marriage."
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Rep. Tim Scott Is the South Carolina Primary's Big Winner
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2012 CommentFor the first year of the 112th Congress, many freshman Republican members of Congress, especially those "Tea Party Republicans" became faces frequently seen on television. One exception was South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott.
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Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul Flub America’s Post-WWII Economic History
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2012 Comment (44)There was a revealing moment in Thursday night's GOP debate in Charleston, S.C.
Rep. Ron Paul dilated on the problems of reintegrating veterans into a postwar economy:
