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On Women in Combat, Rick Santorum Insults Military Men
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2012 Comment (18)So Rick Santorum says that he was not talking about over-emotional females when he raised objections to the idea of women in combat. Instead, he says, he was talking about how over-emotional males might behave. OK fine, so instead of insulting women, he's insulted men, and military men in particular.
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New Culture War Will Help Rick Santorum, Barack Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook February 8, 2012 Comment (5)It never rains but it pours. With the Planned Parenthood vs. Susan G. Komen fight followed by the Prop 8 decision invalidating California's anti-gay marriage law, and the Obama administration's determination that Catholic-affiliated institutions must provide healthcare plans that include coverage for birth control, social issues are suddenly front and center in the 2012 conversation.
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Get Ready for Buyer's Remorse, Rick Santorum Edition
Tweet Share on Facebook February 8, 2012 Comment (3)We've had two—or is it three?—helpings of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, more iterations of former Gov. Mitt Romney than you can shake $10,000 at, so should anyone be surprised that we're getting a second dose of Rick Santorum? The former Pennsylvania senator scored a political hat trick with convincing victories in Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota last night. Sure Missouri was a beauty contest and Colorado and Minnesota didn't actually select delegates, but neither did Iowa and no one said that set of caucuses was meritless.
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Mitt Romney’s Debate Jujitsu Knocks Out Newt Gingrich
Tweet Share on Facebook January 27, 2012 Comment (9)The Romney campaign appears to have uploaded the indignation app to the Mitt-bot before last night’s debate, and to good effect. The former Massachusetts governor performed some clever political jujitsu on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, turning his biggest selling point against him.
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Don't Expect Too Much From Obama's State of the Union Speech
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2012 Comment (6)The funny thing about the State of the Union address is that after it’s great build-up and huge pomp and circumstance, it usually amounts to very little that endures. It’s a good road map for the government in terms of priorities (or, in election years, a road map for re-election), which is why there is such fierce lobbying behind the scenes just to get a mention of a program into it. But that is also why the speech is often a crashing bore, because it becomes a laundry list.
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State of the Union Trivia and History
Tweet Share on Facebook January 24, 2012 Comment (2)The identity of the first president to deliver a State of the Union address before Congress probably won’t surprise anyone—George Washington. But readers might be interested to learn that the first president to deliver a speech known as a “State of the Union address” was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read on for an explanation of those and other firsts, and other bits of trivia and history of the State of the Union address.
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When Mitt Romney Came to Town--Deleted Scenes
Tweet Share on Facebook January 13, 2012 Comment (6)Have you seen When Mitt Romney Came to Town, the 30 minute attack ad being distributed by a Super-PAC (or as they should more properly be termed, Hench-PAC) supporting Newt Gingrich? If you haven’t, you should—it will take its place alongside Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” commercial as being among the most devastating hit pieces of all time. But really, it could have been much worse. Herewith a collection of some of the material that ended up on the cutting room floor. Suggest your own in the comments section below or on Twitter with a #deletedbain hashtag.
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U.S. Population 2012: Nearly 313 Million People
Tweet Share on Facebook December 30, 2011 Comment (8)The United States will enter 2012 with a population of roughly 312.8 million people (or exactly 312,780,968 people, if you want to be pedantic), according to the U.S. Census Bureau's end-of-2011 estimate.
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Newt Gingrich Makes Dumb Marriage Pledge
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2011 Comment (16)Callista Gingrich can breathe a sigh of relief—Newt has pledged not to cheat on her. Sure he presumably made such a pledge before God when they exchanged marital vows, but now Newt is making his promise before a higher power, a social conservative group called The Family Leader.
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Caption the Photo: National Christmas Tree Train Wreck
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2011 Comment (4)In the background of the photo below is the National Christmas Tree. Does that make the tableau in the foreground the National Trainwreck? Submit your suggested caption in the comment space below. I'll post some good ones as the week progresses.
