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Tone Deaf Mitt Romney Lacks the Common Touch
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2012 Comment (2)As is the case with many politicians, Mitt Romney's greatest strength is also his biggest weakness. His experience as a corporate executive should make him a good presidential candidate in a year when the economy is bad. However, while the former liberal and former governor of Massachusetts can speak fluently about the economic big picture he is completely tone deaf when he tries to relate to the middle class families who are hurting so badly.
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‘Most Underrated President’ George H.W. Bush
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2012 Comment (12)COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS--I'm here for a board meeting at the George Bush Presidential Library and the George Bush School of Public Service, both of which are great testaments to President George H.W. Bush's lifelong commitment to public service.
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No Really, Rick Santorum Can't Beat Barack Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2012 Comment (24)I gave into temptation and checked out the comments page for my piece on the GOP's "Ricksanity" that was published last week. The comments were so overwhelmingly negative toward my criticism of former Sen. Rick Santorum that I actually paused and considered that maybe I was wrong, and Rick Santorum does have the support needed to become the nominee.
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Republicans Are in Danger of Losing the Contraceptive Fight
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2012 Comment (24)The Obama mandate requiring unreproductive heath services to be made available to workers as part of any employer-provided health insurance plan has put the Nannystate squarely at odds with America's time-honored respect for religious liberty.
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Mitt Romney Overplayed His Hand in Michigan
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2012 Comment (3)In the campaign world, it's almost a cardinal rule: Undersell your chances, then overdeliver at the ballot box. Former Gov. Mitt Romney never got the memo on this, and he might well pay a severe price for this misstep in next week's Michigan primary.
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Blame Barack Obama for Rising Gas Prices
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2012 Comment (29)With the economy in the doldrums the price of gasoline should be stable. Demand is down—and that should be reflected in the price at the pump. Instead it's creeping up, rising faster than most Americans can keep pace with, taxing family budgets that are already stretched paper thin.
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What Would Stieg Larsson Have Made of WikiLeaks?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2012 Comment (1)Julian Assange, the mastermind behind the WikiLeaks circus, awaits likely extradition by a British court to Sweden for sexual assault charges. The Assange saga—convoluted sex charges, digital exposure of the world's most powerful government, and an assured melodrama in an overheated wood-paneled courtroom in Stockholm—is almost an act of plagiarism of the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson by reality.
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Why Does Barack Obama Hate Savings and Investment?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2012 Comment (12)President Obama's election year messaging is all about class warfare. Worse, under this guise, his recent budget submission makes it clear he plans to dramatically penalize savings and investment through the tax code. Since incentives matter, taxing something produces less of it for the same reasons subsidizing something yields more of it. Given that axiom, one is forced to conclude the president thinks we have too much savings and investment in the U.S. economy today. Hence his draconian proposal to increase the tax on capital gains from 15 percent to nearly 24 percent and to nearly triple taxes on dividends from 15 percent to 43.4 percent.
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Who Is Newt Gingrich Calling 'Elite'?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 23, 2012 Comment (10)With all the vitriolic and just bizarre phraseology being thrown around on the campaign trail ("severely conservative"?), there's one word that really needs to go. And that is "elite."
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The Roots of the Tea Party War on Social Justice
Tweet Share on Facebook February 23, 2012 Comment (5)Since Andrew Sullivan kindly linked to my post on the ongoing proxy culture wars, I'd like to preemptively clarify what I meant by the "older intradenominational debate" over "social justice" among Catholics.
