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- Louisiana Politics: Undone by the Wind - September 25, 2008
- This is the year that Louisiana was to put order into its electoral system. In the past, some votes on U.S. Senate or House seats would be held in December, well after...
- Wall Street Did What Came Naturally - September 23, 2008
- The careless store manager was in some way a party to this crime. And so are you, the voters of America. You did not demand the proper monitoring of the markets and the...
- McCain and the Meltdown - September 18, 2008
- And that, my friends, is why everything's falling apart. That is why the taxpayers are now on the hook for the follies of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns and now...
- Golfing Gets Stuck in the Sand - September 16, 2008
- Some of the industry's woes stem from a significant overbuilding of golf courses. In the early '90s, when there were 12,000 courses, the National Golf...
- GOP Back on the Polarization Trail - September 11, 2008
- Instead it was like old times on the George W. Bush polarization trail, where he would play one group of Americans off another. It was region against region, rural...
- Immigrants and the Safety Net - September 9, 2008
- Conservative politicians often portray government programs as a magnet to illegal aliens, but almost never as an incentive to enforce America's immigration...
- Palin's Social Views Hurt Ticket - September 4, 2008
- "Don't they have birth control up in Alaska?" she asked. If that view has any currency among Republican-leaners, you can imagine what other independents...
- Blue Dogs Have Their Day - September 3, 2008
- To them, Bill Clinton's presidency was the golden age of fiscal rectitude, a model of sobriety beside the Bush administration's eight-year bender of spending and...
- Hillary Can't Fix What Her Party Broke - August 28, 2008
- That's the giveaway line, because for Hillary's angry backers, the issue is no longer what was done to her. It was about what was done to them. Democrats...
- Parties Afraid to Face Population Explosion - August 26, 2008
- America's fastest-growing region has been and will continue to be the Intermountain West. Its megalopolises -- centered on Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City...
- Even Health Care Can Be Outsourced - August 21, 2008
- The Canadian clinic was quite spiffy -- high up in a skyscraper with sweeping views of Lake Ontario. It was Memorial Day weekend in the United States. My countrymen...
- It's No Longer Just About Hillary - August 19, 2008
- Perhaps Clinton does not possess the magic wand to move her troops. The storyline goes that many women disappointed by Clinton's loss or angry at the nasty campaign...
- Dry Eyes Follow Edwards' Downfall - August 14, 2008
- Why would this be for the man who had finished second in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, ahead of Hillary Clinton? The reason is that the John...
- Sex, etc. and the City - August 12, 2008
- The opposite happens in conservative parts of the country. Nashville, Indianapolis, Memphis and Jacksonville go easy on tobacco but not on pot. Houston and El Paso are...
- A Nation of Whiners? Perhaps - August 7, 2008
- Yes, losing one's job or home is traumatic, and having both taken away more so. But the average citizens facing $4-a-gallon gas and learning that their hacienda isn't...
- Offshore Drilling: Candidates Concur on Bad Idea - August 5, 2008
- The idea that extracting more oil in the United States would uniquely benefit American consumers is also nonsense. Oil gets poured into tankers and sold to the world's...
- Could a VP Romney Be Health-Care Czar? - July 31, 2008
- In the year since Romney helped launch the Massachusetts health plan, the following has happened: The number of uninsured has fallen by 340,000 people, half the total;...
- Memories of the McCain That Was - July 24, 2008
- The miracle of McCain's poll numbers is that they are so high at a time when economic meltdown has become the top anxiety, and he has little to say about it. In...
- Tomatoes and Their Bad Rap - July 22, 2008
- Meanwhile, where does the tomato go to get its reputation back? Though the Feds failed to find one guilty tomato, the product was all but tried and convicted in the...
- The High Cost of Healthy People - July 17, 2008
- Let's put it bluntly: Longer lives cost more money. Those who make it to 90 thanks to exercise and six daily servings of vegetables are more likely to suffer the...
- Mortgage Scandal a Bipartisan Affair - July 15, 2008
- So Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had no choice but to engineer a rescue of Fannie and Freddie. The two companies hold or guarantee over half of America's...
- Obama's Liberal Shiver - July 10, 2008
- Everyone expects some alterations as the chosen candidate moves to the center for the general election. But Obama hasn't just shortened a sleeve here, taken in a waist...
- What Americans Want in Immigration - July 8, 2008
- McCain's move to an enforcement-first stance thus better fits popular sentiment. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll finds American voters believing, by a 63 percent to 28...
- The Politics of Foreclosure - July 3, 2008
- Only a few Republicans -- including John McCain last March but not now -- hold that the government has no business bailing out people who essentially gambled on real...
- Krugman, Protestors Wrong on US Beef - Providence Journal - June 24, 2008
- McCain Should Give Up on Evangelical Support - Prov Journal - June 19, 2008
- On Issues, Obama Poetry Won't Rhyme - Prov Journal - June 11, 2008
- Pro-Choice Democrats and McCain - Providence Journal - June 10, 2008
- Health Care: Dems' Lost Opportunity - Providence Journal - June 5, 2008
- White Women Take the Gloves Off - Providence Journal - June 3, 2008
- Teens Belong in Summer Jobs - RealClearPolitics - May 29, 2008
- What McCain Should Say to Dems - Providence Journal - May 27, 2008
- Democrats Should Be More Democratic - RealClearPolitics - May 22, 2008
- Obamacans Pile on Clinton at Own Peril - Providence Jrnl - May 13, 2008
- A Perfect Calm for John McCain - RealClearPolitics - May 8, 2008
- Cosby Is the Real Prophet, Not Wright - Providence Journal - May 6, 2008
- Codependent Addicts: States & Casinos - Providence Journal - April 29, 2008
- Why Shouldn't Bin Laden Be an Issue? - RealClearPolitics - April 24, 2008
- Al Franken Challenged from Left - Providence Journal - April 22, 2008
- McCain's Economics: Pass the Dramamine - RealClearPolitics - April 17, 2008