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After the State of the Union: Who Can Defeat Obama?
Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:10 PM EST
As I watched the President's State of the Union address last night, this question was rattling around in my mind: Who can defeat Obama? Based on performance quality in delivering a prepared speech, the answer is that none of the current Republican contenders is up to the task.
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The Republican Marathon Is Distracting and Dangerous
Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:44 AM EST
The seemingly never-ending Republican primary season drones on, sucking the oxygen out of the national discourse and obscuring things that really are more important.
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Football Games and Political Debates
Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:13 AM EST
I curse the evil forces that malevolently scheduled the Republican debate to coincide with the NFL playoff game on Saturday night.
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Burnt Toast and Serious Candidates
Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:36 PM EST
I wrote earlier that Herman Cain was finished in the wake of the initial sexual harassment charges.
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Supercommittee Deadlines
Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:05 PM EST
The Washington Post has published a series of charts showing the supercommittee's deadlines and related actions and what happens if they're all successfully met. It also shows what will happen, as specified in the Budget Control Act, if the deadlines aren't met.
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Budget Myths versus Reality
Tue Nov 8, 2011 8:09 PM EST
Robert Samuelson has been thinking and writing about business and economics for more than 40 years, but he isn’t an economist. That’s in his favor because he’s free to research and evaluate facts unencumbered by the vague theories and detachment from re …
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Herman Cain Is Finished
Mon Nov 7, 2011 8:05 PM EST
Herman Cain is finished as a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. The decline of his chances to win the nomination may be faster or slower, but it's over.
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The UN Says There Are 7 Billion of Us
Tue Nov 1, 2011 12:25 AM EDT
The United Nations Population Division says that as of today there are seven billion people on Earth.
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Life in America: Advertising
Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:50 PM EDT
A couple of months ago I relocated from Europe to Texas. I lived overseas for many years, most recently the past decade or so in Serbia. Even though I spent a couple of months each year in the U.S. for various reasons, I really wasn't immersed in American life.
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Beware Rick Perry
Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:30 PM EDT
Rick Perry has jumped into the Republican primary race with both feet and mouth wide open. He's sucking all the oxygen away from other Republican candidates, and before he's through they'll all be crawling on the floor and gasping for breath.
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Casey Anthony and the Death Penalty
Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:02 PM EDT
There's all kinds of talk in the media and among people in general about the Casey Anthony case. Mostly, there's anger about the fact that she was acquitted on the charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter.
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Whose Independence Are We Celebrating?
Mon Jul 4, 2011 7:39 AM EDT
There's a lot of discussion about the Declaration of Independence and the unique founding of the United States of America every year at this time. That's a good thing.
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If Chavez Dies, What Happens to Cuba?
Mon Jul 4, 2011 1:32 AM EDT
We may have a new crisis brewing right outside our back door. Americans, aside from a few dunderheads on the far left, don't think much of Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela.
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:21 PM EDT
I haven't written for a while because I've been caught up in the trauma and confusion of moving. For the past 12 years I lived mostly in Belgrade, Serbia -- and for the last 10 years in the same apartment.
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National Financial Recovery Requires Sacrifice
Mon May 16, 2011 5:02 AM EDT
Robert Samuelson has been writing on economics and business for well over 30 years. However, he's not an economist; his academic field at Harvard was government and politics.
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Conservative Media Bias
Fri May 13, 2011 2:54 PM EDT
"Nothing more important" than a government job.... That headline on the Drudge Report today caught my attention.
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Rush Limbaugh on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Wed May 4, 2011 6:23 AM EDT
I listen to Rush Limbaugh now and then, just as I sample the likes of Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow. It's interesting to hear what they have to say, given that they and talkers like them reflect -- or guide -- political thinking on the left and right.
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A Victory in the War on Terror
Mon May 2, 2011 8:24 AM EDT
Finally, after more than a decade of hunting him, Osama bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces.
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Failed Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration
Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:23 AM EDT
Mismanaged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, inept responses to Libya, silence on Syria, failure in the Middle East peace process. President Obama continues to demonstrate that he isn't up to the job. President Bush botched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in several ways.
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What the World Sees in America
Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:54 PM EDT
Peggy Noonan, one of my favorite political columnists, is an insightful observer of the world around us and our place in it as Americans. Her April 21 column, "What the World Sees in America," is a must-read.
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Is Suicide the Answer?
Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:24 PM EDT
I've been thinking about a column by Robert Samuelson since I read it on Sunday.
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The Donald in the White House?
Thu Apr 7, 2011 5:47 AM EDT
No one knows for sure how serious Donald Trump is about running for president in 2012. He's made comments here and there about maybe doing it, and he certainly has the personal fortune to fund a campaign.
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I'm as Mad as Hell, But I Guess I'll Keep Taking It
Tue Apr 5, 2011 6:38 AM EDT
In the great movie Network, the character Howard Beale, played by the late Peter Finch, told his audience: "I want you to go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.'"
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The Antioch Doctrine and the War in Libya
Sat Apr 2, 2011 1:28 PM EDT
Antioch College died in 2008 but is expected to rise from the dead like Lazarus this year or next. It was for many years the exemplar of ideal leftist education -- not much learning, not much time in classes, but lots of leftist consciousness and revolutionary zeal.
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Camille Paglia on the Passing of Elizabeth Taylor
Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:57 AM EDT
Elizabeth Taylor died on March 23. She was 79 years old. She was 10 in the first movie she was cast in, made before I was born. She became a major star at the age of 12 in National Velvet.
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I’m a retired U.S. Army Colonel currently residing in Austin, Texas after more than a decade living in Belgrade, Serbia.
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