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How Baucus’ Retirement Affects Tax Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook April 29, 2013 CommentIn the longer term, Washington insiders are wondering if the sudden retirement of Montana Democrat Max Baucus will help the Republicans move one seat closer to becoming a majority in the United States Senate.
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Obama Avoids Planned Parenthood and the Gosnell Trial
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2013 CommentYou would think the president of the United States would have better manners.
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House Benghazi Report Raises New Questions
Tweet Share on Facebook April 23, 2013 CommentLate Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives released an interim progress report on its investigation into the assault on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya that led to the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other men. To put it mildly, the findings of the investigation thus far are damning.
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After Boston Bombings, Appreciating Family
Tweet Share on Facebook April 17, 2013 CommentI do not usually take the privilege of writing columns that make generous use of the personal pronoun. In the wrong hands, such as mine, it can be absolutely deadly and, even worse, produce something either unreadable or of no interest whatsoever to the reader.
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Politicization of the Boston Marathon Bombings
Tweet Share on Facebook April 16, 2013 CommentFor the first time in a long while a terrorist attack on U.S. soil has injured the national psyche and taken the lives of American citizens.
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A Tax Season Call for Tax Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook April 16, 2013 Comment"When the tax code was created in 1913, it was about 400 pages," House Budget Committee chairman and former GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan reminded everyone Monday on his Facebook page. "Today, it's over 70,000 pages. We need to simplify the code and make it fairer to American families."
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American Politicians Can Learn From Margaret Thatcher
Tweet Share on Facebook April 16, 2013 CommentOver in Great Britain they are preparing to say a final farewell to one of that nation's greatest leaders. Lady Margaret Thatcher, who as prime minster saved the United Kingdom from economic collapse and won three national elections between 1979 and 1990, died last week of a stroke at the age of 87.
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McConnell Right to Call the FBI in Bugging Case
Tweet Share on Facebook April 11, 2013 CommentSomewhere, somehow everything got turned around. A major U.S. political leader is victimized by a leak to the press of the audio from a surreptitiously taped campaign strategy meeting. And what has people upset? Not the taping, no. They wring their hands over what the official and his campaign aides are overheard saying on the tape.
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Call North Korea's Nuclear Bluff
Tweet Share on Facebook April 11, 2013 CommentSpringtime has again come to Washington. Like clockwork, the cherry blossoms are in bloom, tourists are swarming the national mall, and America is once again facing a crisis over North Korea.
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NASA's Wasteful Spending on Space Programs
Tweet Share on Facebook April 10, 2013 CommentThe sequester has forced Washington, D.C. to tighten its belt.
