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Why Mitt Should Be Concerned
Posted on February 1, 2012
I get what Mitt was saying. He wants to focus on the middle class. The middle class is where the votes are. The middle class is gettable. The very poor? ...
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Class Warfare Within the GOP
Posted on February 1, 2012
Mitt Romney won a big victory and that win should propel him to the nomination sometime by June, given the vagaries of the proportional delegate system put in place by...
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Capitalism and Slavery Don’t Mix
Posted on January 31, 2012
In 1956, Kenneth Stampp, a historian from the University of California at Berkely, wrote the seminal book about slavery. Called The Peculiar Institution, the book destroyed the myth of a...
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The GOP Primary Decoded
Posted on January 31, 2012
This originally appeared in The Hill The Republican Party seems to be in a state of complete chaos. Right-wing conservatives, like Ann Coulter, bitterly attack Newt Gingrich, while Tea Party...
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The Income Inequality Myth
Posted on January 30, 2012
A smart guy emailed me over the weekend with a very provocative assertion: All of this income inequality stuff is over-blown political rhetoric. He makes a compelling case. Instead of...
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