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Mitt Romney's Fantasy Tax Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook February 29, 2012 Comment (4)Let's take a trip back to 1992. Then-Gov. Bill Clinton, in his campaign manifesto, said: "Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate."
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Skipping Mitt Romney's Pity Party
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2012 Comment (2)Evidently, former Gov. Mitt Romney is feeling a little sorry for himself on the morning of a surprisingly tight Michigan primary.
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Mitt Romney Hits New Low With Rick Santorum Takedown
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2012 Comment (3)On the eve of the Michigan and Arizona GOP primaries, it appears that, despite some last-minute Democratic subterfuge, former Gov. Mitt Romney will eke out a victory in the state of his birth.
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The Roots of the Tea Party War on Social Justice
Tweet Share on Facebook February 23, 2012 Comment (5)Since Andrew Sullivan kindly linked to my post on the ongoing proxy culture wars, I'd like to preemptively clarify what I meant by the "older intradenominational debate" over "social justice" among Catholics.
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Mitt Romney's Boneheaded Across-The-Board Tax Cut Plan
Tweet Share on Facebook February 23, 2012 Comment (8)Earlier this month I counseled that Republicans could not win this year by "massaging Larry Kudlow's erogenous zones." Mitt Romney's economic team apparently thinks otherwise. The former Massachusetts governor is now proposing 20 percent across-the-board tax cuts.
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Rick Santorum Didn't Restart the Culture War--It Never Stopped
Tweet Share on Facebook February 22, 2012 Comment (6)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 (2)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 Comment (1)Blogger 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?
