Archive for January, 2013
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Time to Purge
Posted on January 13, 2013
As Republicans gather in Williamsburg for their annual policy planning retreat, they must confront a simple truth. They don’t have the votes to run anything. If the vote for Speaker...
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What Goes Around, Comes Around
Posted on January 11, 2013
I think it was mistake for the neo-cons to attack Chuck Hagel as an anti-Semite. But that is exactly what they did weeks before President Obama announced that he wanted...
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Guns, Venus, Mars
Posted on January 10, 2013
The gun debate is like one big game of miscommunication. Gun-owners are from Mars. Gun-haters are from Venus. For many gun-owners, hunting is not the main thing. Defending yourself is...
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God, Football and Notre Dame
Posted on January 9, 2013
I told my office, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that I was going to the BCS championship game with John Boehner. And I was. He was going to the game and I was...
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Return to Regular Order
Posted on January 8, 2013
Will the 113th Congress mark the return of regular order? Some conservatives and the Wall Street Journal have decried a broken Congressional process where most deals are concluded behind closed...
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