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LETTER: Objects To Article Referencing Obscure, Unimportant Case Of Bush v. Gore
I would like to express my fervent gratitude to The Courant for dedicating a full two-thirds of a page of its Opinion space to yet another hand-wringing article about the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision [May 14, "What Gives With Sandra Day O'...Tags: Elections, Sandra Day O'Connor, Politics
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Ignore the haters: NIU belongs in BCS
Of all the insulting misconceptions spread since Northern Illinois qualified for the Orange Bowl, the most uninformed suggests the Huskies will use the unfair opinions of the Kirk Herbstreits of the college football world for motivation. None needed. To...
Tags: Mid-American Conference, College Sports, Oklahoma Sooners, Illinois Fighting Illini, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Commanders-in-chief?
He concludes, "Two heads really are better than one." Printers Row Journal spoke with Orentlicher recently. Here's an edited version of the conversation. Q: Make sure I understand your proposed process: Every state has a primary, Democratic and...Tags: White House, New York University, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements
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David Orentlicher thinks 'Two Presidents are Better Than One'
He's a doctor, a lawyer, a university professor and a one-time politician (in the Indiana House). With all that education and real-life experience, it might be surprising that David Orentlicher would propose such an unlikely — some would say...
Tags: White House, Colleges and Universities, New York University, Republican Party, Elections
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Oval Office may be Floridian's home
With each passing day, Jeb Bush looks more and more like a presidential candidate. At this stage, he's striking the obligatory, non-committal tone, but he's just come out with a book on immigration reform, is showing up on radio and TV talk shows, and...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Regional Authority, Hillary Clinton, Herman Cain
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Blue states' fiscal woes test Obama
The electoral map, the demographics behind President Barack Obama's re-election and the high-end tax increases that were just wrung from the Republicans give Democrats reason to believe that long-term political trends are on their side in budget...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance, Manufacturing and Engineering, Credit Ratings, Parties and Movements
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For GOP substance, deregulate
WASHINGTON -- Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution's Framers would be appalled. The nation reveres...
Tags: Rand Paul, Political Fundraising, Elections, Republican Party, U.S. Congress
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Republicans Should Change The Way They Pick Candidates
The Hartford CourantBecause of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution's Framers would be appalled. The nation reveres the Framers,...Tags: Rand Paul, Political Fundraising, Republican Party, Elections, U.S. Congress
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Column: Deregulation needed for Republican substance
WASHINGTON — Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation’s governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution’s Framers would be appalled....Tags: The Washington Post, Political Fundraising, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Can anybody save the Republican Party?
The year 2012 was a disaster for the Republican Party. They failed to regain control of the U.S. Senate. They lost eight seats in the House of Representatives. They didn't just lose the White House to Barack Obama, they got clobbered: losing the Electoral...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, John McCain
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Inauguration 2013: For Mitt Romney, the day wasn't to be
Had things gone his way, Mitt Romney would have raised his right hand Monday and sworn an oath to serve as the nation’s 45th president. Instead, the vanquished Republican nominee spent the day at home in La Jolla, out of sight if not quite out of...
Tags: White House, Social Media, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Elections
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Stephen Goldstein: We're supposed to be a democracy
According to legend, outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin answered, "A republic, if...Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Political Systems, Personal Weapon Control, Political Corruption
May 15, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Dec 3, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 26, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Mar 24, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jan 11, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Mar 25, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 24, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
Mar 24, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Mar 22, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 21, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 17, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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