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Gingrich isn't Scrooge; he's a closet progressive
Newt Gingrich wants to pay poor kids to clean toilets. And all of the right people are horrified.
The Nation says Mr. Gingrich is running on "a platform that seems to have been written by the unreformed Ebenezer Scrooge." The editors of the Newark Star-...Tags: Racism, Elections, South Africa, Washington, DC, Poverty
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Are the rich simply more deserving?
Anthony Marcavage continues a vital conversation about the nation's social contract ("Both sides wrong about social contract," Nov. 3) and promotes an at-first-blush balanced view that both liberals and conservatives are wrong — certainly...Tags: Collective Contract, Corporate Officers, Lawyers, Wage Contract Issues, Culture
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Cain's problem: Incompetence, not sexual harassment
This whole scandal over Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment of women during the 1990s is driving me crazy because the media is insisting on covering this story instead of properly vetting the candidates. Mr. Cain recently was on C-span to debate...Tags: Minority Groups, Sexual Misconduct, Sex Crimes
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Newt plays nice
As Mitt Romney continues to struggle against conservative Republican complaints that his claim to be one of them is no more than an expedient makeover, the latest candidate to emerge as his principal rival for the party's presidential nomination is...Tags: Political Candidates, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Elections, Parties and Movements
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Herman Cain is sorry excuse for a candidate
Accusations of sexual harassment are hardly the only reason to reject Herman Cain as a candidate for president ("New Cain accuser comes forward with own account," Nov. 8). In fact, he should be rejected as a candidate because he is both unqualified and... -
Perry embraces the politics of self-destruction
In the latest Republican presidential debate in Michigan, Texas Gov. Rick Perry added to his woes by saying there were three federal cabinet departments he would cut if he were president, and then could name only two of them. "The third one, I can't...Tags: Executive Branch, Elections, Regional Authority, Rick Perry, Government
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Romney reaches for the absurd in quest to prove he's Republican enough
What presidential candidates say or don't say in televised debates can be very revealing about them. In Rick Perry's unfortunate case the other night, his inability to remember the third of three federal departments he would eliminate has him on a...Tags: Political Candidates, Executive Branch, Elections, Chris Christie, Rick Perry
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'Occupy' still needs the mainstream media
Whether or not you agree with the Occupy protesters recently rousted from Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, still camping out at Baltimore's Inner Harbor and making their presence known in other cities across America, the movement has made one thing clear: The...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Brooklyn Bridge, Occupy Wall Street, Journalism, Twitter, Inc.
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Pitts: The black self-loathing of Herman Cain
This is for those who keep asking what I think of Herman Cain. In particular, it's for those who want to know what the tea party's embrace of this black businessman turned presidential candidate says about my claim that the tea party is racist.
I might...Tags: Racism, CNN (tv network), Civil Rights, Condoleezza Rice, Minority Groups
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Occupy Wall Street: The revolution will be puppeted
Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine The Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public-school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit...Tags: Social Sciences, Michelle Obama, Elections, Occupy Wall Street, Booker T. Washington
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'Our blacks' vs. 'their blacks'? Why conservatives shouldn't talk about race
Do you think it gives Clarence Thomas a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he is one of Ann Coulter's blacks?
That is how Coulter put it on Fox "News" while defending Herman Cain against sexual harassment charges that threatened to engulf his campaign last...Tags: Elections, Africa, Minority Groups, Prisons, Feminism
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Here's why adultery is still wrong -- even for politicians
We live in a bipolar culture. We allow ourselves to be drenched in sexual images in movies, on television and on the Internet and then defend First Amendment protection to even the most graphic of them. Then, when a politician acts out what culture...Tags: Marriage, Family, Ethics, The Washington Post, Adultery
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