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William Faulkner and the Republican Future for 06/29/2013
Republicans who have not won a majority of the vote in a U.S. presidential election since 1988 and who have lost the nation's popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections would do well...
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It's OK to Smile for 07/06/2013
As candidate and later as president, Ronald Reagan had a really good opening line, which almost invariably would make his audiences smile and softly chuckle: "As King Henry VIII said to each of his six...
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In New York, ‘Let's Look at the Record' for 07/13/2013
First, Anthony Weiner, who was forced to resign his seat in Congress in 2011 after he was revealed to have publicly lied about his having repeatedly sent explicit, lewd images of himself to women...
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“Frank” Advice for 07/20/2013
The slump of his shoulders told the story. He cleared his throat and then told the 100 or so reporters waiting at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital: "Sen. Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1:44 a.m....
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A Genuine Class Act for 07/27/2013
Tom Rosshirt, a friend of mine, was a White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. Last year, he wrote a wonderful piece about being on a long plane ride over the Pacific on Air Force One,...
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Misconceptions on Abortion for 08/03/2013
The answer to one question in the most recent Wall Street Journal-NBC News national poll startled an awful lot of my friends and colleagues in the press corps who are pro-choice. Because it is written...
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The Rolex Gene for 08/17/2013
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., was given two and a half years in prison for, in the words of the U.S. federal judge who sentenced him, using his campaign treasury as a "personal piggy bank."I...
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Republicans' 2016 Problem: a Repeat of 2012 Republican Debates for 08/24/2013
The Republican National Committee, at its August meeting in Boston, unanimously endorsed party Chairman Reince Priebus' position to bar CNN and NBC — if those two networks proceed with plans to air a...
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Labor Day Is the Real New Year's for 08/30/2013
Labor Day signals the end of summer. Cottages are closed, and schools are open. The days grow shorter and the nights cooler. The seasons are changing; autumn is on deck. Labor Day, always the first...
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Rare Moral Courage for 09/07/2013
In life, you don't get to choose your relatives, but you do get to choose your friends. I consider it to be one of the great, unearned blessings of my life that Jack Gilligan chose me to be his friend....
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Am I Just Cranky? for 09/14/2013
You accept that you are completely uncool when you don't tweet, when you still write paper checks to pay your bills and when you continue to call them " tattoos" instead of " body art" or "ink".But...
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Hard Right Turn for 09/21/2013
During the sometimes-heated contest for the Republican 1996 presidential nomination to oppose President Bill Clinton, eventually won by Sen. Bob Dole, one unsuccessful GOP candidate, publisher-editor...
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No More 'Munich' for 09/27/2013
"Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?" asked the late Adlai Stevenson. To listen to what passes for our national...
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'You Negotiate Peace With Your Enemies' for 10/05/2013
Yitzhak Rabin, who fought in combat for his country's creation and went on to command her defense forces, had the ideal credentials as prime minister to negotiate the historic Oslo Accords, which, for...
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Democrats, Don't Pop the Champagne Yet for 10/12/2013
The numbers for the Republican Party are beyond discouraging. The Grand Old Party is hemorrhaging support. In the most recent Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey, only 24 percent of voters, an all-time...
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Cruz Control for 10/19/2013
Here in Washington, yesterday's instant analysis too often becomes today's conventional wisdom. That appears to be the case in the emerging press-political consensus, which holds that freshman U.S....
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The Case for Republicans Going Conservative for 10/26/2013
The Republican family argument has gone public. Warring camps within the GOP agree that their party has lost the national popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. But they disagree...
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When Public Service Was Honorable for 11/02/2013
In November 1960, I cast my first presidential vote for John F Kennedy. But because I was in the middle of 13 weeks of Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., that fall, I had to vote by...
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Final Returns for 11/09/2013
We've reached that point in the political post-mortems of election 2013 where as my wise and good friend, the late Arizona Rep. Morris K. "Mo" Udall used to say, "Everything has been said, but not...
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Memo to the President, Appreciating the Stakes Involved for 11/16/2013
To President Obama: The late John Gardner, a wise and patriotic American who, as cabinet secretary, successfully launched Medicare, oversaw the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and...
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