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Is Mitt Romney’s Lack of Authenticity an Asset?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 29, 2011 Comment (4)New York Times columnist David Brooks, in a bloggy conversation with colleague Gail Collins, makes this case for former Gov. Mitt Romney:
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Chris Christie Starting to Look Like Sarah Palin
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2011 Comment (14)There's a ton of upside to Gov. Chris Christie.
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Romney's in No Position to Criticize Perry on Immigration
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2011 Comment (6)Here, via National Review's Katrino Trinko, is a nutshell version of why former Gov. Mitt Romney is such a loathsome political animal.
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Rick Perry-Mitt Romney Battle Far From Finished
Tweet Share on Facebook September 26, 2011 Comment (9)Everyone who's covering the GOP presidential primary needs to take a mood stabilizer. Keep the predictive powder dry. Chill the heck out. (I say this as a disinterested observer who loathes Gov. Rick Perry and former Gov. Mitt Romney for different reasons, but in equal measure.)
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What Elizabeth Warren Got Wrong in Her ‘Class Warfare’ Pushback
Tweet Share on Facebook September 23, 2011 Comment (16)Conservatives have picked apart Massachusetts candidate Elizabeth Warren's remarks, much cheered by progressives, about an "underlying social contract" that justifies higher taxes on the rich.
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David Mamet Should Get out of Politics and Stick to Playwriting
Tweet Share on Facebook September 22, 2011 CommentAt my first job in Washington, in the late '90s, my coworkers introduced me to the filmmaker-playwright David Mamet.
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Jonah Goldberg Off in His Socialism-Fascism Calculation
Tweet Share on Facebook September 21, 2011 Comment (8)Could we have gotten fascism without Marxism?
Responding to a strained attempt to disentangle Marx from all the 20th-century corpses, Jonah Goldberg says, "You don't get anything called Fascism without having Marxism first."
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Seniors Stand in Way of Both Entitlement and Tax Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook September 20, 2011 Comment (9)It's common knowledge that the politics of reforming our entitlement system are extremely difficult because seniors are susceptible to demagoguery from both parties.
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By Playing On Envy, Obama Asks Americans to Abandon Aspirations
Tweet Share on Facebook September 20, 2011 Comment (10)Bruce Bartlett amasses polling data that shows Americans, by a comfortable 2-1 margin, support raising taxes to reduce the deficit, as opposed to spending cuts alone.
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The Lesson Not to Learn From Solyndra
Tweet Share on Facebook September 16, 2011 Comment (2)David Frum is certainly right that the bankruptcy of Washington-backed solar energy firm Solyndra makes the federal government's support for an individual firm look laughably inept.
