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Why does Barack Obama hate America?
For several years, conservative wing-nuts had quite a field day with their baseless accusations that President Obama was not an American citizen. Some, including Sarah Palin, tried to persuade the...
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He ridiculed funding for “volcano monitoring,” but Hurricane Isaac prompts...
It was only three-and-a-half years ago that Gov. Bobby Jindal mocked the idea of spending federal funds for monitoring volcanoes. Instead of providing federal dollars to protect citizens from potential...
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Romney’s empathy deficit: What he never learned from his “brainwashed” father
George Romney There was once an honorable man who ran for president. He made a casual remark in an interview, which his opponents twisted out of context. They pounded him relentlessly with the remark...
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Romney’s “47 percent” remarks haven’t destroyed his campaign. But will they...
If, like Mitt Romney, you insult 47 percent of the American public by suggesting they are moochers, shouldn’t your poll numbers plummet? Mitt Romney (Photo credit: Talk Radio News Service) Why haven’t...
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The presidential debates: “Full of sound and fury signifying nothing”?
Will the presidential debates, to quote Shakespeare, be “full of sound and fury signifying nothing”? That’s not a bad way to describe these quadrennial slugfests, the first of which is tonight and...
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He said what??!! Obama’s spots and why they’re missing Gingrich and Santorum
Edward Kennedy (Photo credit: olebrat) In his losing bid for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, Edward Kennedy didn’t mince words about his opponent, President Jimmy Carter. He blamed the...
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News Flash: No matter who wins, America will survive. No Zombie Apocalypse
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) No matter who wins Tuesday’s presidential election, millions will wallow in deep despair on Wednesday morning. I don’t mean the kind of despondency that pervaded Baton Rouge...
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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...
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The 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...
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War 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...
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Jindal 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...
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To 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...
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The 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...
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Scandal: 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...
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What 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...
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Hillary 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,...
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The 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...
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War 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...
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Barack 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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