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On Fiscal Cliff and Beyond, GOP Must Do Become Party of Ideas
Tweet Share on Facebook December 31, 2012 CommentBy the time this column appears in print, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans may have reached a deal to keep America from going over the fiscal cliff. It is, however, unlikely.
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The Journal-News Gun Permit Map Went Too Far
Tweet Share on Facebook December 27, 2012 CommentWhen, in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn. mass shooting, the Gannett-owned Journal-News published an interactive map on its web site showing the names addresses of those holding gun permits in the two counties it covers, it got a lot of attention.
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Washington's Biggest Problem Isn't Spending, It's Growth
Tweet Share on Facebook December 27, 2012 CommentThe clock is ticking down as America gets nearer and nearer to the edge of the fiscal cliff. Most everyone is by this time in agreement that, like Thelma and Louisa, we are going over. What follows is anybody's guess.
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Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Tweet Share on Facebook December 25, 2012 CommentBack in 1897 young Virginia O’Hanlon wrote the editor of the New York Sun asking:
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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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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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Searching for God After the Newtown Shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook December 17, 2012 Comment"Where was God?"
It's a question a lot of people are asking in the aftermath of the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school that left more than two dozen people—including 20 small children—dead.
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Economic Growth Key to Solving Conservation, Sustainability Issues
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2012 CommentThe global economy has forged new links between nations at many levels, up and down the supply chain. Taking advantage of new technologies and native resources, many nations all across the globe feed raw materials to others, where they are processed and turned into goods used in manufacturing. Other nations act as transit points. Still others engage in the assembly process, shipping finished good out into export markets where they reach their final point of sale.
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Obamacare's Tax Chickens Come Home to Roost
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2012 CommentCall it politics as usual. Call it hypocrisy. Call it whatever you like—the fact remains that Obamacare's chickens are coming home to roost and some Democrats don't like it one bit.
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North Carolina 'Choose Life' Plates Don't Violate First Amendment
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentA Reagan-appointed judge in North Carolina has ruled that the state's "Choose Life" license plates are unconstitutional and has issued a permanent injunction preventing them from being issued to motorists.
