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Don't Judge Newt Gingrich for His ABBA Ring Tone
Tweet Share on Facebook May 23, 2011 Comment (11)Republicans might still be mad at Newt Gingrich for some critical talk about Rep. Paul Ryan’s plans for Medicare (if you call "right-wing social engineering" critical talk). And surely there are Democrats still fuming at things Gingrich did as a congressman, not the least of which was taking control of the chamber away from Democrats for the first time in 40 years and becoming speaker. And then there are those moralists who have trouble with Gingrich’s ethical transgressions while he was in the House, or even with his affair with a staffer that occurred while he was lambasting former President Clinton for engaging in sexual activity with a White House intern.
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LA Times Was Right Not to Publish Woman's Name in Schwarzenegger Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook May 19, 2011 Comment (10)It was perhaps inevitable that someone, somewhere, would track down the name--or a name, anyway--in the episode involving former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the child he fathered outside his marriage a decade ago. And that’s all the more reason to commend the Los Angeles Times for doing the right thing, and sticking to its initial decision.
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Why Don't Men Like Schwarzenegger, John Edwards Use Condoms?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 18, 2011 Comment (15)The revelation that former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child a decade ago with a woman who was not his wife—a disclosure that comes just a couple of years after we learned that onetime Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had done the same thing—begs an important question:
Exactly what century are we in?
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How the Media's Getting the Strauss-Kahn, Ensign Scandals Wrong
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2011 Comment (12)Now that former Sen. John Ensign has taken a sort of early retirement, and French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in danger of being forced into retirement from the IMF, it is time that the media retire a few words and concepts of their own.
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Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan at Issue in NY Special Election
Tweet Share on Facebook May 16, 2011 Comment (9)Even in our era of crazy-expensive political campaigns, one has to wonder: Why on earth is so much money being dumped into the special election in western New York to replace former GOP Rep. Chris Lee?
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Stop Fighting Over Who Gets Credit for Killing bin Laden
Tweet Share on Facebook May 12, 2011 Comment (3)The horrific attacks of 9/11 brought together, at least for a time, a fragmented and ideologically divided nation. One would think that the discovery and killing of the terrorist leader responsible for it would have the same effect.
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Obama's Immigration Push Is Not Just Politics; It's Good Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2011 Comment (18)Some conservatives are grousing that President Obama’s visit to the United States-Mexican border on Wednesday was merely a pander to win back disaffected Hispanic voters, whose support is desperately needed for Obama to win re-election. That’s quite possibly true. But it doesn’t mean Washington shouldn’t do immigration reform.
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New York GOPer Follows Trump Act as Campaign Clown
Tweet Share on Facebook May 10, 2011 Comment (4)Donald Trump’s penchant for self-promotion and exaggeration is an amusing distraction in what should be a serious campaign populated by (some) serious candidates. But there’s reason for concern that it’s catching.
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Take Note, Tea Party: Government Workers Got Osama bin Laden
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2011 Comment (17)To the anti-union governors, the Tea Partyers, the whiner down the street who is convinced that everyone in the public sector enjoys a high salary and benefits for doing a cushy job, let us consider the government worker whose effort we have witnessed in the past week.
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Not Releasing bin Laden Death Photo Is Smart
Tweet Share on Facebook May 4, 2011 Comment (26)It was inevitable, with the emergence and escalation of the "birther" campaign, that we would experience the same bizarre skepticism when it comes to Osama bin Laden. If there are a group of conspiracy theorists who insist on seeing proof of U.S. birth for President Obama, is it any surprise that there would be a concurrent call for proof of death for bin Laden?
Susan Milligan
Susan Milligan is a political and foreign affairs writer and contributed to a biography of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy."
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