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The unlikelihood of President Hillary
The votes have been cast, the count has been completed and we all know the winner of the presidential election. So now it's just a matter of letting the Electoral College meet to make the outcome official. Then we can get along with planning the...
Tags: Mitt Romney, George H.W. Bush, Monica Lewinsky, Elections, Politics
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The mighty fine state of our political system
My fellow taxpaying chumbolones. With only days before Tuesday's election — between a big-government Republican and a big-big-big-really-big-government Democrat — why don't we wrap things up? The dog that didn't bark Can President Barack...Tags: Michael Madigan, Barack Obama, Radio, Al Gore, Entertainment
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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: U.S. Congress, Politics, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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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: John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), William Henry Harrison, Marco Rubio, The Wall Street Journal, Regional Authority
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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: Political Fundraising, Elections, Rand Paul, U.S. Congress, Politics
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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: Political Fundraising, Elections, Rand Paul, U.S. Congress, Politics
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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: John McCain, Tea Party Movement, U.S. House of Representatives, David Vitter, Republican Party
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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: Public Officials, C-SPAN (tv network), Government, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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Lessons for Both Parties From the 2012 Elections
The 2012 U.S. elections, though they weren’t seminal, revealed much about the nature of the body politic and the direction of American politics. Divided Government May Be Ingrained: At the presidential level, Democrats start with a decided...
Tags: Tampa, Barack Obama, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Yeast Infection, Media Industry
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Republicans' push to tilt elections will backfire
Imagine if the 2012 elections had turned out this way: President Barack Obama won the popular vote by five million votes and almost 4 percent, taking seven of the eight largest states, as he did, yet the Republican candidate, former Massachusetts governor...Tags: Barack Obama, Haley Barbour, Television Industry, Reince Priebus, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
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Presidential campaign 'legitimately' toxic?
I am so relieved that I don't live in a swing state. I can sleep through Nov. 6 and wake up knowing that Maryland's Electoral College votes will be safely in President Barack Obama's pocket — or Gov. Martin O'Malley will be in witness protection....Tags: Modern Family (tv program), Mitt Romney, Super Bowl, Barack Obama, Elections
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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: Florida State University, Fiesta Bowl, Oklahoma Sooners, College Football, Mid-American Conference
Dec 9, 2012
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Nov 4, 2012
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Apr 26, 2013
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Mar 24, 2013
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Mar 25, 2013
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Mar 24, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 17, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Dec 31, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jan 29, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Aug 23, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Dec 3, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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