Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’
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Golf Summit
Posted on June 16, 2011
First, there was the beer summit. Now there is the golf summit. Where other Presidents had summits to negotiate nuclear arms deals or budget compromises, Barack Obama has chosen to...
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Weiner’s Decline and Fall
Posted on June 14, 2011
I actually thought he would survive. When I first heard the allegations against Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), I assumed he would stick it out and stay in Congress. After all, this...
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Gerry Returns
Posted on June 13, 2011
When Elbridge Gerry presided over Massachusetts as its governor in 1812, he signed into a law a redistricting plan that helped benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. One district was said to...
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Sand Castles
Posted on June 10, 2011
A couple of months ago, I went to the beach with my son and together we built a sand castle. It was an impressive effort, with all the turrets and...
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Short Term, Long Term
Posted on June 8, 2011
In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse. In the short term, it...
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