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Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.

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Ross Douthat: Decline Is Relative

New York Times | ROSS DOUTHAT | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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...As the 2010s begin, there's reason to worry that America has further to fall. Our politics are polarized, our finances are still overleveraged, and...

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Random 2010 Thoughts

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Other interesting news from Republicanland is a new poll showing that, given three choices, voters state who they'd likely vote for in the 2010 election in the following order: (1) Democrats, (2) Tea Partiers, (3) Republicans.

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Obama Poll Watch -- Scraping Fifty Percent

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

November wasn't a particularly good month for President Obama in the polls. Not disastrous by any means, but not very cheerful either. For the first time, Obama's numbers flirted with going below 50 percent.

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How Sarah Palin Might Win The White House

Washington Post | Matthew Dowd | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason...

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Health Care Reform Struggle Will Not End This Year

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.

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Obama's White House is for Sale Just like All the Others

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama thundered he was the only candidate who didn't take a dime from Washington lobbyists. He hadn't taken a dime directly from them, but the favored few wealthy donors who don't have an L scribbled on their backside.

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Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.

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The Vicious Cycle of Partisanship

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Joan E. Dowlin

Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...

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Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

Dan Siegel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

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Dan Siegel

With the glimmering hope of the Obama campaign behind us, Moore's film is a wake-up call to renew and expand America's democratic promise.

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A Critical Mass of Thinking on Health Care Reform

Robert R. Hoopes, Jr. | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Robert R. Hoopes, Jr.

On healthcare reform, we need more critical thinking -- we need a critical mass of thinking.

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The Shock and Awe of a Second Financial Meltdown

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

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Stephen Gyllenhaal

I have this nasty feeling that on the right, the big boys are happier than ever -- no reforms, no meddling in the existing structure and the memory fast fading of who actually caused that last meltdown.

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Learn Me Some Good Schooling

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Schweitzer

Calmer voices have called the assault on Obama's speech "silly." That is terribly wrong: the attacks are not silly, they are dangerous. The attacks further split the party of opposition from a position of reason.

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Who Else is Against American Manufacturing?

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

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Dave Johnson

Of course other countries have an interest in taking manufacturing business away from us to have for themselves.

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Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

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Don McNay

When I read the Obama quote about fathers, it made me wonder what side of the equation I fell on. Was I living up to my father's expectations or making up for his mistakes?

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Renegade and Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media

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Don McNay

Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Sir Knavely and the Great Stimulus Package

Steven Denlinger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Steven Denlinger

"I'm bitter," Sir Knavely told me. He raised his glass and drank. His furry chin went deep into his Tiger's Milk. Then he set it down. "Why are ...

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Do Conservatives Follow the Framers -- or the French?

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Nicholas Stephanopoulos

It is no coincidence that American conservatives now sound like French revolutionaries when they talk about legal issues.

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I'm Sick of Hearing About the Poor, Poor Millionaires

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Democrats have to get over their knee-jerk reaction to being labeled "tax and spenders" by their opposition. If higher taxes for millionaires are the way to pay for healthcare reform, then let everyone know it, and know why.

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From JFK to Obama Without Malaise

Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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Gershon Hepner

Since the economy has melted, like Bush, Obama will be pelted, unless he rids us of malaise, for which he may have means and ways.

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Sarah Palin, Preparing to Run

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

After reading Palin's interview in Runner's World, I doubt she'll be off the political stage anytime soon. A presidential campaign is a long race that requires a lot of endurance.

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We Could Get the Third Stimulus Wrong

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

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Harry Moroz

The need for federal aid for states is indisputable. But there are better ways to target stimulus funds than with a grant program like General Revenue Sharing.

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A Rebuttal to Krauthammer: "Obama's Moral Response to Iran"

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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Joan E. Dowlin

I believe that US history shows that our intentions have not always been honorable and we have been looking out for our own self interests which are often based on greed and fear.

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America's Role in Iran's Unrest

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

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Joan E. Dowlin

Many conservatives feel the President should speak out more about the Iranian crisis. Let's take a look at that and see where our past meddling has gotten us.

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