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George W. Bush's Mitt Romney Endorsement Doesn't Matter
Tweet Share on Facebook May 16, 2012 Comment (10)At first blush, it looks like yet another indignity for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. There was former President George W. Bush, a man who surely understands that Romney is indeed going to be the man who will try to unseat the guy who beat the other guy who wanted Bush's job in 2008. And when Bush was asked whether he would endorse, he said, "I'm for Mitt Romney." Right as the elevator doors closed.
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Mitt Romney’s Memory Hole
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (12)It's funny what Mitt Romney can and cannot remember (or maybe that should be can and cannot "remember"), be it about bullying in high school, or cold, harsh behavior toward congregants in his church.
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Mitt Romney's Poll Surge Might Be Bigger Than It Looks
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (11)The latest CBS News/New York Times poll shows President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a dead heat in the race for the White House.
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Why We Care About Mitt Romney's Dog and Bullying
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (62)First, Mitt Romney was mean to a dog. And now, he was a childhood bully.
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Colorado GOP Rejection of Civil Unions Hurts Mitt Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (1)Lakewood, COLO.—There were two equally queasy groups in the Colorado House of Representatives State Affairs Committee hearing room at the state capitol Monday night. One group was supporters and advocates for civil unions, hoping desperately for a last-minute change of heart by one of the Republicans on the committee. The other group was moderate Republicans, watching nervously as multimillionaire philanthropist Tim Gill and his lobbyist Ted Trimpa sat for the whole hearing.
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'Austerity' Promotes Growth, Government Spending Doesn't
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (14)Let the great debate begin—no, not the one between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney, but between fearless free market economist and Mercatus scholar Veronique de Rugy and big government advocate and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. The question: Does the failure of European "austerity" measures mean the United States should eschew concerns about reckless spending and instead renew our romance with big spending, spiced this time with serious tax increases?
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Lessons from a Commencement Speech
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (2)A dozen years ago I was honored to be asked to give the commencement address at my daughter's graduation from high school. I was quite puffed up about it, until I realized I had to actually come up with something that a) wouldn't embarrass her, and b) actually might be the least bit moving or interesting. Then, of course, panic set in, and I did my best.
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My Mother's Zest for Adventure
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2012 CommentFor a change, I saw my mother Judith for Mother's Day. I hugged her goodbye early in the morning before she left my living room for the airport to fly to Bogota—just for fun, because she likes to go to places she's never seen before. She has three daughters and her husband, a droll and healthy doctor—but we find it hard to keep up with her sheer exuberant energy apace while seeing the world, including strife-torn Namibia and Bosnia. Only my Dad comes close.
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Obama's Coming Out on Gay Marriage Could Cost Him in Swing States
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2012 Comment (2)Many people were surprised last week when, in an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts, Barack Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage. Previously an opponent of the idea, Obama looked, for all intents and purposes, like he had been dragged into the announcement by statements made days earlier by Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, both of whom argued it was a cultural progression whose time had come.
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JFK, LBJ, Schlesinger, Caro, and the 'Argument Without End'
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2012 Comment (1)Several years ago I was at a cocktail party at my parents' New York City apartment, chatting with the historian Robert Caro. I noticed that smoke seemed to be emanating from his person and said, "I'm not sure how to put this, Bob, but, umm, are you on fire?" He pulled open his jacket and we were both startled to find that its lining was smoldering and then alight. Apparently his jacket had dangled over a candle when he was leaning over a table and it caught.
