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An innocent abroad
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- For years, presidents and presidential hopefuls have gone abroad to cast themselves as knowledgeable on world affairs, counting on friendly receptions wherever they go as a respite from the slings and arrows they routinely encounter in...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, War of 1812, United Kingdom, Travel, Summer Olympics
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Romney's foreign folly
Jules WitcoverThe big question about Mitt Romnney's trip to England, Israel and Poland in the midst of his presidential campaign seems to be, or should be: Why? In his bid to oust President Obama in November, Romney apparently agrees with the conventional wisdom...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Republican National Conventions, Sheldon Adelson, Barack Obama, Travel
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Is Obama's best hope the inadequacy of his rival?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Could it be that President Obama's best chance for re-election in November is ... Mitt Romney? The dismal state of the economy, and especially the stagnant high unemployment rate, clearly are red flags for Obama's hopes of retaining the...Tags: Republican National Conventions, George W. Bush, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Joe Biden
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Put up or shut up
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the expanding political universe of anonymous allegations and nonresponsive responses, the latest exchange between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and prospective Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney takes the cake. At issue...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Harry Reid, The Huffington Post, Joe Biden, Sean Hannity
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The veepstakes game
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- With the Republican National Convention now less than three week away, public apprehension is mounting so high over Mitt Romney's secret deliberations on his choice of a running mate that one can hardly stifle a yawn. Romney himself is...Tags: Harry Reid, George W. Bush, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Olympics and patriotism
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As is the case every two years, it's being demonstrated once again that the Olympics are the opiate of the sports-watching American public. Patriotism is breaking out all over this country as our athletes, particularly the women, rack up...Tags: Unemployment, Republican Party, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Romney and the Republican club
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Grouch Marx was said to have declared that he wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member. One wonders whether Mitt Romney may feel deep down the same way about his Republican Party. He has labored all year to...Tags: Ronald Reagan, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Supreme Court contempt
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- At a time when circumstances particularly call for public confidence in the Supreme Court, the judiciary has become perhaps the most controversial of the three main branches in the federal system. On the eve of its much-anticipated ruling on...Tags: Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Companies and Corporations, Joe Biden
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Supreme surprise
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the twinkling of an eye, the Supreme Court's surprising decision to uphold the bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has dramatically helped President Obama in the continuing fight over it in the 2012 presidential...Tags: Health, Anthony Kennedy, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Judges
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Roberts' choice
Jules WitcoverWashington -- Chief Justice John Roberts, in partnering with the Supreme Court's four liberal judges to preserve the bulk of President Obama's health care act, not only handed Obama a victory. He also rescued himself and the court from a shroud of...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Judges, Joe Biden
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Reading Roberts
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Conservative World is up at arms at the effrontery of its onetime hero, Chief Justice John Roberts, in casting his vote with the bloc of four liberal Supreme Court judges to save the heart of the despised "Obamacare." The rage dismisses out...Tags: George W. Bush, Health, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Jules Witcover: Romney courts confusion
Poor Mitt Romney. Even when he is handed the football with a clear path to the goal line, he seems almost unable not to fumble it along the way. In his majority opinion ruling the Affordable Care Act consitututional, Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), George Romney, Health, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Crime, Law and Justice
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