November 25, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his job spoke of restoring public pride in her home state.
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November 11, 2009
WASHINGTON --One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.
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November 4, 2009
WASHINGTON --Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
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October 21, 2009
WASHINGTON --In an act of merciful sanity, the Obama administration has made good on its promise to stop interfering with states that allow the medical use of marijuana.Clink-clink, hear-hear, salud, cheers, et cetera, et cetera.
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October 7, 2009
WASHINGTON -- For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide. Here's what you missed in the social networking universe the past few days: the twittered miscarriage. The banality of twittery just out......
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September 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -- No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp 'n' prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board member who was booted in summer 2008 when she tried to examine the organization's books. "If we'd known all...
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September 16, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Not so long ago, Rep. Joe Wilson's verbal assault on the president -- "You lie!" -- might have produced a much different outcome. Instead of the U.S. House rebuking Wilson, we might be entertaining the prospect of a duel. In early...
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September 9, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Just when you thought things couldn't get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Barack Obama's speech urging kids to work hard because "being successful is hard." And that, ladies and gentlemen, was th...
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September 2, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When people think of South Carolina, they think of ... I know, Comedy Central. Really, shouldn't Jon Stewart send South Carolinians a cut of his pay? What people do not typically think of is black Republicans, a perception that could cha...
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August 26, 2009
WASHINGTON -- When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he could not have imagined the Internet. The wild frontier we now know and (mostly) love called the Blogosphere is a not-always-OK corral...
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August 12, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin was right, the second time. We do need to turn down the rhetorical heat lest we miss important issues in the proposed House health care bill. Unfortunately, Palin's more thoughtful comments followed a made-for-the-tabloids Facebo...
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July 29, 2009
People say: Why are we still talking about Crowley and Gates? And then they commence to talk for 15 minutes about Crowley and Gates. The reason we persist is because the confrontation between a black professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and a white cop, Sgt.
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July 15, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Doubtless thousands of other women's ears perked up when Sen. Charles Schumer, introducing Sonia Sotomayor at Monday's confirmation hearing, mentioned the jurist's girlhood affection for Nancy Drew books. The smart, plucky girl-detective was...
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July 8, 2009
When you're up to your waders in barracuda, blame the media. And quit your job. And say you did it for the people. And hire an agent. And try to keep a straight face. On your way to the bank. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the...
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June 10, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air is a little nippy. What happened? In a word, bungling. Everyone...
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June 3, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Prior to recent events, I intended to write about the GOP's message problem with the headline: "Shoot the Messenger." Sunday's murder of abortion doctor George Tiller makes my title inappropriate, but the idea remains relevant. The...
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May 27, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Freud recognized that human beings have a sex drive and even a death drive. Is it possible that we also have an aphorism drive? We do seem attracted to pat answers and pithy summations -- especially from our politicians. It isn't enough to b...
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May 20, 2009
It's not yet clear how the one-armed midget demographic is shaping up, but everybody else seems to be bailing on the GOP. Begging the forgiveness of one-armed midgets, I'm merely quoting Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. In a Washingt...
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May 13, 2009
WASHINGTON -- There's nothing unfunnier than Saturday night's jokes reviewed by the caffeinated light of Monday morning. Which is why we probably shouldn't quarterback a comedian over coffee when she was performing for a crowd primed on cocktails. That re...
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April 29, 2009
Here on planet "What About Me," principled people are so rare as to be oddities. Thus, it was a head-swiveling moment Monday when former Vatican Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon quietly declined Notre Dame's Laetare Medal. Glendon -- a Harvard Univer...
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April 15, 2009
It isn't every day that one's very own hakapik arrives in the mail. It is probably reasonable to assume that I'm the only person on my block to be the un-proud possessor of the aptly named bludgeoning and hacking instrument used to slaughter baby seals......
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April 8, 2009
A few decades on the planet confirm a certain consistency among males in their approach to love and war. Suffice to say, there is usually much talk of sabers, missiles and such. "Speak softly and carry a big stick," was how Teddy Roosevelt frame...
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March 18, 2009
WASHINGTON -- With a flick of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want what women want. And the wise man sayeth: "Yes, dear." Thus, it came to pas...
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March 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — As he lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research Monday, President Barack Obama proclaimed that scientific decisions now will be made “on facts, not ideology.” This sounds good, but what if there were...
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March 11, 2009
WASHINGTON — Nobody knows. If the keyboard allowed, I’d type those words in squiggly lines for full effect. Whether talking to a Ouija Board, a Magic Eight Ball, an economist or the president of the United States, the answer is the same. Nobody knows.
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