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The following is an excerpt from David Weigel | December 31, 2011 |Slate.com |
ATLANTIC, Iowa – Newt Gingrich invents analogies almost as often as he writes books. On this leg of his Jobs and Growth bus tour, he was comparing Barack Obama’s economic policies to an avian breakfast treat.
“It’s as ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Steven Bertoni | November 8, 2012 | Forbes.com |
Yes, Sheldon Adelson crapped out on Election Day. But Adelson has plenty of more chips to place on the table–billions more.
True, the casino billionaire spent at least $53 million on this election cycle with little to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JOSEPH BOTTUM | Oct 29, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 07 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
The good thing about the Electoral College—our strangely still-surviving 18th-century experiment in federalism—is that it’s clear, coherent, and -commonsensical. If you live in Ohio, say, a state that’s closely contested in the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Foxnews.com | January 15, 2013 |
President Obama plans to unveil a comprehensive proposal to address gun violence on Wednesday but is already facing criticism, over his potential use of executive action to push multiple gun control measures and over the staging of the announcement ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Michael Sivy | November 1, 2012 | Time.com |
America is becoming more unequal economically, and most people find that disturbing. Indeed, the trend toward greater inequality has been one of the consistent themes of the election campaign. Some believe that inequality is necessary to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from NICOLE PERLROTH | October 12, 2012 | Nytimes.com |
Computer security experts have identified vulnerabilities in the voter registration databases in two states, raising concerns about the ability of hackers and others to disenfranchise voters.
In the last five years, Maryland and Washington State have set ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Lawrence Krauss | January 27, 2012 | Slate.com |
Newt Gingrich described himself as a visionary when he unveiled plans Wednesday to create a mammoth new space program, including a permanent colony on the moon within the next nine years. Within eight years, he pledges ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JEFFREY H. ANDERSON | October 17, 2012 | weeklystandard.com |
Today’s New York Times mentions but then quickly glosses over President Obama’s statement in early 2009, in which he said, “One nice thing about — the situation I find myself in is that I will ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JEFFREY H. ANDERSON | October 15, 2012 | Weeklystandard.com |
This is perhaps the most lucid, even-handed, and convincing examination to date of the threat that President Obama—and his potential reelection—poses to our republic. No one who reads I Am the Change will come away ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from William Saletan | November 13, 2012 | Slate.com |
The defeat of 2012 is forcing Republicans to rethink what they stand for. What will the new conservatism look like?
Progressives like to think they’re the engine of history. They fight for change, and eventually conservatives succumb. ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Katie Roiphe | November 8, 2011 | Slate.com
When it comes to scandals, we like to think that it is the clumsy cover-up, the lying that matters. As Maureen Dowd put it recently, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that it’s not the scandal that ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JEFFREY H. ANDERSON | January 17, 2013 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
Yesterday, Congress passed a series of bills to promote gun control and mental health. Among other things, the bills aim to remove “unnecessary legal barriers…that may prevent states from making information available to the background ... Read More
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