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10 Predictions for 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook December 29, 2011 Comment (14)To ward off the post-Christmas blahs, I will perform the foolhardy and ridicule-courting service of predicting the future. This time next year, I will read this, and no doubt weep. (And then, having learned little, promptly do it again.)
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Mitt Romney Must Clarify Defense of Individual Mandate
Tweet Share on Facebook December 28, 2011 Comment (7)I sympathize a little with former Gov. Mitt Romney on the issue of the individual mandate. In effect, the conservative movement pulled the rug out from under him.
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How Ron Paul Should Address The Newsletter Controversy
Tweet Share on Facebook December 27, 2011 Comment (28)Michael Tomasky of the Daily Beast helpfully suggested that Rep. Ron Paul could quiet the furor over the newsletters that bore his name by giving an Obama-style "race speech."
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Mitt Romney Poised for Iowa-New Hampshire Sweep
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2011 Comment (21)After all that.
The debates.
The straw polls.
The "oops"-es.
The bets.
After all the flaming and fading of his rivals, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney looks as much like Mr. Inevitable as he did when the race began in earnest.
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Newt Gingrich Isn't to Blame for Polarized Congress
Tweet Share on Facebook December 21, 2011 Comment (9)Sean Theriault of the University of Texas at Austin argues at CNN.com that former Speaker Newt Gingrich was the nefarious innovator of hyper-partisanship in Congress:
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Vaclav Havel’s Legacy A Reminder of the Noncommunist Left
Tweet Share on Facebook December 20, 2011 Comment (1)The death of Czech dissident-turned-president Vaclav Havel is, or should have been, a helpful reminder that there was such a thing called the "noncommunist left."
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Wyden-Ryan Medicare Reform Shows the New Healthcare Consensus
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2011 Comment (5)I have seen the future, and its name is Orydencare.
We saw a glimpse of this emergent system with the presentation last week of Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to reform Medicare.
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Remembering Christopher Hitchens
Tweet Share on Facebook December 16, 2011 Comment (3)When I was a kid, I pursued what I considered dueling obsessions.
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Mitt Romney's Secretly Sensible Tax Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2011 Comment (1)Slate's Matthew Yglesias marvels at how former Gov. Mitt Romney has made it through the Republican primary contest without getting dinged for the comparative sanity of his tax plan:
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How to Save Newspapers and Other Legacy Media
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2011 Comment (4)I bumped up against my monthly 20-article limit on the New York Times website yesterday.
Needless to say, I won't be reading anymore New York Times articles until 2012—save for excerpts and quotes embedded in other media.
