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Obama's Right, America Needs an Industrial Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2011 Comment (3)“Industrial policy.”
In tonight’s State of the Union address, President Obama won’t utter those exact words. Instead, he’ll talk about “innovation” and “infrastructure” and “education”—things we’ll need to invest in as a nation in order to remain competitive in the global economy.
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GOP Should Repeal Healthcare Law Regardless of Polls
Tweet Share on Facebook January 18, 2011 Comment (6)For the past 18 months, Republicans have felt the wind at their back when it comes to healthcare and public opinion.
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Huckabee Poised to Neutralize Palin for 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2011 Comment (55)A familiar dynamic is emerging in the GOP’s 2012 presidential primary: Mike Huckabee could be the spoiler who delivers the nomination to the party establishment’s favored horse.
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Don't Blame the Gabrielle Giffords Attack on Overheated Rhetoric
Tweet Share on Facebook January 10, 2011 Comment (24)A lunatic opens fire in public, and even before the cable-news air-fillers do their thing, a sort of involuntary political reflex occurs. The right worries: “I hope he wasn’t one of ours.” And the left chomps: “I bet he was one of theirs.”
As now seems abundantly clear, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter, was not on anyone’s “team.”
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Democrats Will Demagogue GOP Budget Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook January 4, 2011 Comment (21)The incoming House Republican majority plans to throw down its $100 billion fiscal gauntlet on the area of the federal budget known as nondefense discretionary spending—that is, everything except military and veterans appropriations, Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid.













