Cassidy vs Landrieu: will the 2014 Senate race be a referendum on health care?
Baton Rouge Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy is on the web today, announcing his campaign against Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2014. In a video and in an interview Wednesday morning on WAFB-TV, Cassidy makes it...
View ArticleJindal should take his own advice on GOP’s Obamacare attacks
Gov. Bobby Jindal in a video by the Republican Governors Association. By Robert Mann Gov. Bobby Jindal is back with some more advice for his Republican Party: quit spending so much time criticizing...
View ArticleTo help veterans, Congress should stop making so many of them
#142020890 / gettyimages.com #142020890 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann The news about the Veterans Administration is “reprehensible,” to quote VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. As a recent VA inspector...
View ArticleThe drums of war, again
#157192100 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann Hear that? It’s the sound of beating drums. They’re war drums, to be precise. Our political percussion section loves to play these familiar tunes. It...
View ArticleScandal: Mary Landrieu tells the truth about race, Louisiana history
By Robert Mann Did you hear the stunning news about how Sen. Mary Landrieu vilified all her white constituents as knuckle-dragging, virulent racists? It was quite shocking and will probably disqualify...
View ArticleWhat Selma teaches us about the “American experiment”
President Obama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) By Robert Mann What is America? Every generation redefines our great country in...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s makeover lessons from Richard Nixon
By Robert Mann It’s makeover time on the nascent Hillary Clinton for President campaign. The New York Times reported recently that Clinton has hired a former aide to First Lady Michelle Obama,...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Obamacare Insanity
By Robert Mann Among the definitions of insanity is one often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That, of course, could explain...
View ArticleWar in Iran is a great idea — to the chicken hawks
Former Vice President Dick Cheney (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Robert Mann We probably won’t attack Iran over its nascent nuclear program – not today, not next year, not the year after that. Israel...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s amazing grace
By Robert Mann Among dozens of moments that define the historic, consequential presidency of Barack Obama was his moving eulogy of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...
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