Articles filed under Commentary
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Peculiarities in the GOP, Democratic presidential racesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - With metronomic regularity the Clintons say things that remind voters of the aesthetic reason for recoiling from them. Aesthetic considerations even cause many Republica...
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Mexican leader's message to those who left for AmericaFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Less than two years after taking office, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is getting mixed reviews from the Mexican people. On the one hand, he gets high marks for refo...
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Conservatives need to find a way to reinvent themselvesFeb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - This just in: Ronald Reagan is dead and he's not coming back. Now, can conservatives please move on? Reagan always spoke about the future and its possibilities. Today's...
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McCain can't take the risk of becoming a political opportunistFeb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - If John McCain's life is, as it sometimes seems, one of those old-time movie serials, the audience would now know that with the GOP presidential nomination within reach,...
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Progress being made in Iraq, Afghanistan on two separate frontsFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Traveling in Iraq and Afghanistan in late January, I kept encountering two themes that cut across the usual U.S. political debate about these conflicts: The hard-nosed o...
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'Beat goes on' in White House race; bad news for state GOPFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Paul Green is the director of the School of Policy Studies at Roosevelt University. "Super-Duper-Tsunami" Tuesday has thankfully come and gone. In the Republican race f...
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How Democrats can best unify the Republican PartyFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Forewarned, Democrats now are forearmed -- not that they will necessarily make sensible use of the gift. Tuesday's voting armed Democratic voters with the name of the ca...
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How the surge has worked to bring sense of security to IraqFeb 04, 2008 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Walking down Rashid Street, chatting with shopkeepers in a district of Baghdad that a year ago was a no-go zone, you wonder how the transformation happened. T...
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McCain, Obama are getting closer to gaining nominationJan 30, 2008 10:00 pm - Heading into Tuesday's unprecedented day of voting in two dozen states, a degree of order is emerging in the dramatic races for the presidential nominations of both part...
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Republicans join the Democrats in buying votes at the pork barrelJan 29, 2008 10:00 pm - The aptly named Republican "retreat" last weekend at the ritzy Greenbrier resort in West Virginia should have included Democrats because Republicans are behaving just li...