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Rick Santorum Didn't Restart the Culture War--It Never Stopped
Tweet Share on Facebook February 22, 2012 Comment (3)Since the firestorm over contraception and religious freedom erupted, there seems to be some kind of consensus that the "culture war" has returned to the fore of American politics. The consensus is wrong. The culture war never stopped.
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Hey Liberals, Mitt Romney Can Still Beat Barack Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2012 Comment (7)"Desperate Republicans dream of Mitch Daniels as white knight" (Daily Kos).
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Why the Catholic Contraception Controversy Is So American
Tweet Share on Facebook February 16, 2012 Comment (1)It seems to me that the furor over the Obama administration's birth control coverage mandate is uniquely American. And by that I don't mean to imply that Americans, or American Catholics in particular, are somehow benighted or behind the times.
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Why Conservatives Should Not Dismiss 'Liberal' Art
Tweet Share on Facebook February 16, 2012 CommentBlogger Tod Kelly has some great advice for political conservatives who wish they had some art—books, movies, music—to call their own. (H/t: Andrew Sullivan.)
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Mitt Romney Should Attack Rick Santorum's Spending Record
Tweet Share on Facebook February 15, 2012 Comment (2)If the Washington Examiner's Byron York is right, conservative activists and insiders are urging former Gov. Mitt Romney not to unleash the Death Star on former Sen. Rick Santorum. I imagine Romney is going to want to say something to draw a contrast between himself and Santorum. The question is, what?
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What the Catholic Contraceptive Debate Is Really About
Tweet Share on Facebook February 13, 2012 Comment (14)There are two vital debates happening in the political blogosphere and twitterverse right now.
One has to do with the Obama administration's health insurance mandate guaranteeing access to contraception, even if it collides with Catholic conscience.
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How Mitt Romney Should Respond to the Improving Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (12)The terrain of economic debate is moving under former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's feet. His response, so far, has amounted to an acknowledgement of reality with a subjective caveat: Things are getting better in spite of President Obama's policies, not because of them.
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What the Rick Santorum Sweep Means for Mitt Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook February 8, 2012 Comment (8)Former Sen. Rick Santorum cleaned Mitt Romney's clock Tuesday night and, at the very least, has scrambled the former Massachusetts governor's plan of marching unmolested from Florida to Tampa, as it were.
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Mitt Romney's Clumsy Economic Centrism
Tweet Share on Facebook February 7, 2012 CommentThere are times when I feel a twinge of sympathy for former Gov. Mitt Romney. Really and truly. The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Mitt in the current ideological climate—with its highly-charged suspicions of both "socialism" and conspicuous wealth—forces him to tack left and right in ways that leave him pitifully exposed.
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Mitt Romney's Electability Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook February 6, 2012 Comment (7)With the economy seemingly set on a path to recovery and a new Washington Post/ABC News poll showing President Obama with a clear edge over former Gov. Mitt Romney, the White House must be feeling upbeat.
