Articles & Editorials

2nd February
2012
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Mitt Romney was wrong in his victory speech after the Florida primary Tuesday night when he attributed to Tom Paine the quote, “Lead, follow or get out of the way.” Although widely

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26th January
2012
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What a stark contrast. All those mud-slinging kids mangling each other with venomous attacks on bank accounts and personal lives on the one hand. The President of the United States on the

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20th January
2012
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Now that unfettered big money, in the form of the so-called Super PACs, are spending twice as much in the upcoming GOP primary in South Carolina as the candidates themselves, more attention is

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11th January
2012
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The Republican presidential primary season has produced, if nothing else, a sense that any given week can make a big difference, which of course has been a boon to the 24/7 news cycle media

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9th January
2012
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Coming out of Tuesday’s GOP caucuses in Iowa, it never ceases to amaze how myopic the major media pundits are. There is nothing yet to establish that the latest GOP “flavor of the

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28th December
2011
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On the eve of yet another new year, leering ahead into 2012 is an unsettling exercise, at best, while the less anxious process of looking backward to 2011 and the years, the greater or lesser of

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22nd December
2011
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It is sad to learn that apparently Christiane Amanpour is simply too intelligent, truth-seeking and even-handed to survive any longer as the anchor of ABC-TV’s prime Sunday morning political

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15th December
2011
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Noting, as I did in this column last week, that President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to outlaw football after the carnage players suffered in the 1905 season, a friend who was a starting receiver

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7th December
2011
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I’ve been eager to write on this subject for months. I chose to delay it until after the season ended for my local high school because I didn’t want it to be unduly disruptive. However,

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1st December
2011
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A newly-identified epidemic is lose in the land, reported by the Daily Beast’s Chris Lee in this week’s Newsweek, “The Sex Addiction Epidemic.” It is also the subject of a

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