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History shows folly of appeasing Iran
What are we to make of President Barack Obama’s latest pronouncements about Iran’s movement toward nuclear bombs? His tough talk might have had some influence on Iran a couple of years ago, when he...
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TOO SLICK Obama attempt to deflect oil price criticism cynical
“Under my administration,” President Obama said recently, “America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years.” Replace the word “under” with “in spite of,” and you get...
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Romney needs to recover from enthusiasm deficit to have chance to win
WASHINGTON — The tedious fable of the Republican primaries, “The Tortoise and the Hares,” is limping toward its predictable close. But if “fear the turtle” turned out to be wise advice for Mitt Rom...
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Dems’ birth control rhetoric dishonest
In 1984, Mario Cuomo pioneered the argument that one may be “personally opposed” to abortion, while supporting abortion rights. Ever since, this convenient locution has become a staple for count...
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Class warfare effective, but at what cost?
Money troubles? Mitt Romney? The guy whose wife drives two Cadillacs and hangs with NASCAR owners? Yep. He’s got money troubles. Or, as we call it in Los Angeles where the disease is rampant, TM...
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VETTING Voters served when candidates scrutinized
What’s wrong with a prolonged primary season? If liberals could have looked into the future just a couple of years, they might not have gotten so worked up over the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling i...
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The flower chairman
When I was at the absolute pinnacle of my professional career, I was the flower chairman for the Miss Kansas-Miss Missouri Beauty Pageant. I was 14 years old. I had other friends with jobs, and ...
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SAINTS? Football bounty system should draw stiff penalties
The New Orleans Saints are anything but. When the Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts to win their first Super Bowl in 2010, it was a great inspirational story. The team’s success came to sym...
Mar 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Farewell to the smartest man in the U.S.
WASHINGTON — The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan was President Ni...
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Early predictions of Romney losing to Obama ignore too many factors
WASHINGTON — It is the temptation of the columnist to universalize the moment — to present transient trends as exceptional, predictive and permanent. A direction is presented as a destiny. A snapsh...
Mar 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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