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What Democrats Mean When They Talk Gun Control
Tweet Share on Facebook December 20, 2012 CommentThe recent tragedy at Newtown, Conn.'s Sandy Hook Elementary School has indeed created what my bloleague Brad Bannon described Wednesday on Thomas Jefferson Street as "a teachable moment."
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With the Sandy Hook School Shooting, It's the Gun, Stupid
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentIt's the gun, stupid...or is it?
Most of our nation is still shaken by the recent massacre, the second worst in our country's history., in Newtown, Conn. It's not just that 27 people were gunned down in cold blood by a killer who then took his own life; it's that 20 of those people were children, babies really, most 5, 6, 7 years of age. On Friday, the world seemed to stop spinning on it's axis, and not just for the people of Newtown, Conn.
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The National Rifle Association Is the Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentAs a political consultant and Senate staffer, I have worked for a lot of office holders and candidates who were strong advocates of hunting and the Second Amendment.
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Robert Bork's Legacy: Nominations Blocked for Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentJudge Robert Bork has died. But the tradition started by his failed 1987 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has sadly become entrenched.
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Hillary Clinton Must Testify to Congress on Benghazi
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentIt's almost as if many in the mainstream press wish we could switch temporarily to a monarchy. That way we could coronate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and assure her role as our next leader and be done with it.
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The Newtown Shooting Is a Teachable Moment
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentThe slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn., has already had a profound impact on American society. The tragedy has moved both the public and politicians.
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President Obama Wants To Go Over the Fiscal Cliff
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2012 CommentHouse Speaker John Boehner is under fire from conservatives, deservedly so, for proposing that income taxes be allowed to go up on Americans making more than $1 million per year.
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Daniel Inouye Knew the Senate Was Bigger Than He Was
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2012 CommentTo someone who has known only the modern, troubled U.S. Senate, Daniel Inouye looks like a throwback. He was an entrenched senator—the longest-serving, when he died this week at 88—and had served until the day of his passing, long after people in other job categories would have retired. He was famous for securing "earmarks" for his state of Hawaii, a practice now disdained under the absurd presumption that local projects are what are breaking the federal budget. Inouye used earmarks for what they were intended: to provide services and projects to local communities that would not be done in another way, and to make it possible to collect enough votes to pass appropriations bills.
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Obama's Newtown Shooting Speech Was Best of His Presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2012 CommentIn an hour of crisis and grief, the president has to tell the country some hard truths about itself. As he does that, he must also explain what it's all about, this country called America, all over again. President Obama did just that, at about the halfway mark of the two terms he was elected to serve. He looked as if he had aged a few years in a day.
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What the Republican Party Can Learn from Britain's Tories
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2012 CommentThere is a conservative party of an English-speaking nation with a serious image problem. Twenty-eight percent of the public believes this party "doesn't care enough about the very poor or vulnerable". Forty-seven percent believe they are the "party of the rich". Finally, 28 percent don't believe the party cares enough about the country's healthcare system.
