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Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Todd Akin: Going for distance
In an interview on the eve of his acceptance of the Republican Party's nomination for president, Mitt Romney sought to distance himself from his running mate and criticized those who would, as he put it, "chain us together." "I mean, who is Paul Ryan?"...
Tags: Cancer, 2012 Republican National Convention, Social Issues, Elections, Politics
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Paul Ryan and Ann Romney are Mitt Romney's most compelling advocates
Americans may not know Mitt Romney yet, but they do know a little more about two impressive people he has chosen to team up with at pivotal moments in his life – Ann Romney and Paul Ryan. One has been his life partner, the other will be his...
Tags: 2012 Republican National Convention, Tim Pawlenty, Elections, Apple iPod, David Horsey
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Best and worst of Romney's Republican National Convention
Despite the rainy weather, Tampa, Fla., was good for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan; a bit less so for Clint Eastwood. As the cleaning crew sweeps up the confetti and burst balloons, here are the highlights of the 2012 Republican National Convention…...
Tags: 2012 Republican National Convention, Elections, Ron Paul, White House, Animal Attacks
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It's Medicare vs. the economy
ARCADE, N.Y. — Kathy Hochul is a young, first-term Democratic congresswoman fighting for her political life in a solidly Republican district outside Buffalo, N.Y. Unlike most of that liberal state, this is Romney country; a poll last week showed the...
Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Politics, Medicare, Mitt Romney
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Romney-Ryan Republicans pray to Jesus but bow to Ayn Rand
Many Republicans believe theirs is the party of Jesus Christ, but, in practice, they are the party of an atheist, Hollywood intellectual named Ayn Rand. After establishing a career as a screenwriter, Ayn Rand authored two novels, “The Fountainhead&...
Tags: Heroism, Tea Party Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Republican Party
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Todd Akin has plenty of company in Republicans' unhinged faction
Missouri congressman Todd Akin’s outrageously weird assertion that a woman cannot get pregnant from “forcible rape" exposes three predicaments facing the Republican Party. First, Akin has made himself so toxic that he may lose his race...
Tags: Rape, Social Issues, Elections, Reince Priebus, Tea Party Movement
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Todd Akin's remarks on rape may help clarify the abortion debate
Like any sentient person, I was appalled by Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin's comments about "legitimate rape." I was shocked by the Limbaugh-ian proportions of his ignorance about the female reproductive system ("in cases of legitimate rape,...
Tags: Rape, Social Issues, Politics, Republican Party, Abortion
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Paul Ryan's Medicare plan puts Mitt Romney into flip-flop mode
After watching the verbal contortions Mitt Romney has put himself through in the last week when speaking about Paul Ryan’s budget plan, it has become impossible to take seriously anything he has to say. The soon-to-be presidential nominee of the...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, White House
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Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan pleases both friends and enemies
Everybody seems happy with Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin congressman Paul D. Ryan as his running mate. Republicans are joyful because it is a bold move that will electrify the tea party troops of the party’s base. Democrats are gleeful...
Tags: Tim Pawlenty, Elections, Tea Party Movement, Politics, Republican Party
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Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan vision harks back to the days of Taft
The Republican team of Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan is less about the future than it is about nostalgia for a past that many Americans imagine was better -- a time when businessmen were free of government meddling and all citizens, even the poor, old or...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ethics, Elections, Ronald Reagan, Values
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Could Obama-Romney race end in uncharted electoral territory?
In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election when the Supreme Court awarded Florida’s electoral votes to George W. Bush. Is there a chance something that wild could happen again? Given the even ideological split in this...
Tags: Elections, White House, Joe Biden, Politics, Republican Party
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Student loans add to angst at Occupy Wall Street
For almost a week, Nate Grant has sat cross-legged on a wall at the Occupy Wall Street encampment, holding a cardboard sign that bears his scrawled grievance: "Students Ought Not Be a Means of Profit." Strangers have harangued him: "Get a job, you...
Tags: Yale University, Barack Obama, White House, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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