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A grand American tradition: The smear
The Swamp(A perspective piece in the Chicago Tribune) By Charles M. Madigan We now have a new thing in presidential campaigning, the anticipatory smear defuser. It's a simple thought: Before your enemies get any traction, embrace the slander, spread it around........Tags: Television Industry, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Government, Health and Safety at School
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Bush's Paulson, master of the universe
The Swampby Frank James When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was appointed by President Bush as his third and presumably last Treasury Secretary in 2006, a lot of observers assumed Paulson was coming in to be a mere caretaker. That was......Tags: George W. Bush, Roy Smith, Government, New York University, National Government
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Bush pulls punch on Obama: 'We'll see'
The Swampby Mark Silva It's been described variously as Bush's "first shot'' at his successor -- or a "salvo'' across Obama's bow -- but the words that have filtered out of the closed-door speech that the former president delivered in Pennsylvania......Tags: George W. Bush, Health, United States, Government, Barack Obama
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Growing independence from both parties
Cal ThomasIn his 2007 book, "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800," historian Jay Winik writes that among Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, none "believed in political parties, which they feared would lead...Tags: Paul Ryan, Cal Thomas, Religion and Belief, Thomas Jefferson, Government
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The Obama Manifesto
Paul GreenbergBashing the Supreme Court of the United States is a presidential tradition almost as old as the Supreme Court itself. Thomas Jefferson began it when he railed against John Marshall's landmark decision in Marbury v. Madison back in 1803. Just as Barack...Tags: Judges, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, Thomas Jefferson
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Old man in a bar, or: A meditation against entropy
Paul GreenbergThe old man in a rumpled linen suit at the end of the bar stood out like a weed at a garden show. All around him the young couples and swinging singles, so impressionable and so eager to impress, went on laughing and talking about whatever they laugh...Tags: Environmental Issues, Walker Percy, Energy Resources, Alternative Energy, Religion and Belief
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Wondering aloud: thoughts on religion and politics, energy and athletics
Some things I've been wondering about: Do nervous Mitt Romney supporters remember then-Sen. Hillary Clinton thumping then-Sen. Barack Obama in three major primary states just prior to Obama declaring victory in the 2008 Democratic primaries? Does the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Primaries, Thomas Jefferson, Elections, Barack Obama
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Economics 101: Change happens
Paul GreenbergA presidential campaign is the health of economic illiteracy. Every four years, ignorance comes into its quadrennial own. There are voters to mobilize, resentments to stoke, dull gray truths to be replaced by shiny new shibboleths, and the gullible 99...Tags: Investments, Entertainment, Andrew Jackson, Movies, Credit Ratings
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Gregory Rodriguez: A political history lesson
God bless the American media. Over the last two weeks, thousands of well-educated journalists and political experts have made their mortgage payments by commenting on the antics of an idiot congressman who tweeted a picture of his genitals, and an idiot...Tags: Mark Twain, Richard Nixon, Government, Elections, Henry Adams
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End the presidential pardon
IT'S NOT THAT I care if "Scooter" Libby gets pardoned. Sure, he obstructed justice, but putting someone named Scooter in jail seems a little harsh. Putting someone named Scooter in elementary school seems a little harsh. I object to the idea of the...Tags: George W. Bush, Prisons, Andrew Johnson, Entertainment, Civil Unrest
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