Posts Tagged ‘Government’
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Poverty Numbers
Posted on September 21, 2010
I was listening to NPR’s great show, “To the Point with Warren Olney”, last night and the subject was the new poverty numbers. Olney interviewed representatives from various food banks...
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More Lessons Learned
Posted on September 15, 2010
Here are some more lessons learned from the primaries last night: 1) Conservatives aren’t going to vote for a candidate based only on electability: The principle reason that Castle gave...
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Mixing the Message on Purpose
Posted on September 14, 2010
John Boehner, the House Minority Leader, mixed his message on the tax battle on purpose this weekend. I, for one, think it was a pretty clever move. Bob Schieffer, the...
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Plan Colombia
Posted on September 9, 2010
The Colombian Ambassador Carolina Barco held a reception in honor of my old boss, former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. Barco was effusive in her praise of Denny, who in...
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Obama’s Cruelest Month
Posted on September 7, 2010
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” – T.S. Eliot–The Wasteland Had T.S. Elliot just...
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