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The morality brigade
We're still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. In recent weeks, Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in...
Tags: Elections, Head Start, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Eric Holder, Abortion
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The Romney presidential disaster
The column about a theoretical Mitt Romney presidency by Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. contains two serious flaws ("What if? Life under President Romney," Jan. 27). First, Mr. Ehrlich writes "... there would be a fiscal plan to cut $4 trillion of federal spending...Tags: Iraq, George W. Bush, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Israel, Mitt Romney
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KAL's year in review, the key
January 1. A dropped pass and a missed field goal keep Joe Flacco and the Ravens out of the Super Bowl. February 2. Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson becomes Mr. Super PAC by pumping millions into Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. 3....
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Gun Control, Michael E. Busch, David Petraeus
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Jim DeMint, Elections, Todd Akin, Tea Party Movement
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Builder's guilty plea shows need for stronger campaign finance laws
I read with interest your article about Catonsville developer Steve Whalen Jr., who pleaded guilty to five counts of election-law violations for illegally funneling money to a Baltimore County councilman's reelection campaign ("Builder admits illegal...Tags: Catonsville, Fines, Punishment, Prosecution, Barack Obama
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The billionaires' long game
What's the biggest political lesson of 2012? Some say it's that money doesn't count all that much. Even though billionaires and big corporations poured huge amounts into the 2012 election, they lost big. They learned the lesson and won't try to buy...
Tags: Federal Election Commission, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Finance, Elections, David Koch
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Paul Ryan's billionaire populism
Last Friday, Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee, made the most populist speech of this campaign season. "It's the people who are politically connected, it's the people who have access to Washington that get the breaks," he...
Tags: Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Standards, China, David Koch, Petroleum Industry
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Will 2012 be the year American democracy dies?
Who's buying our democracy? Wall Street financiers, the Koch brothers, and casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, among others. And they're doing much of it in secret. It's a perfect storm -- the combination of three waves that are about to...
Tags: Federal Election Commission, Harry Reid, Anthony Kennedy, Elections, Companies and Corporations
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Gambling money corrupts our politics
Your article on the final presidential debate included a paragraph stating that "with backing from casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the Republican Jewish Coalition is airing anti-Obama TV ads in South Florida, where most of the state's Jewish voters...Tags: Elections, Judaism
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Occupy anniversary: The 1 percent are winning
It's been a good year for the 1 percent. The protesters who occupied public spaces in cities across the country, beginning with Wall Street on Sept. 17, 2011, garnered a great deal of attention for the idea that our democracy is being hijacked by the...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Elections, Tea Party Movement, Under Armour Inc., Political Fundraising
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Sometimes, you almost want to feel sorry for Mitt Romney
I am starting to feel sorry for Mitt Romney. On an international tour to three countries, he made news in two of them by dissing the London Olympics and infuriating the Palestinians. The poor guy -- for months, people have complained that he never says...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Elections, Israel, Olympic Games, Entertainment Events
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Self-interest trumps democracy
With so many tens of millions of dollars flowing into political campaigns anonymously this year, it's hard to believe anyone would oppose some minimum level of disclosure. After all, it was Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote in the infamous Citizens United...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Anthony Kennedy, Finance, Elections, Olympia J. Snowe
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