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Is Perry a Goldwater or a Reagan?

“Electability is the fool’s gold of politics,” insists David Carney, Rick Perry’s chief strategist. That’s a foolish thing to say. Politics ..


Obama should be moving toward the middle

Cass Sunstein runs regulatory policy in the Obama White House. The administration’s goal, he wrote last month in The Wall ..


GOP posturing obstructs new era of gov’t

Whenever natural disaster strikes, the nation’s governors always have the same response. Where are the Feds? When will help from ..


Time for grownups

Finally, the Responsibility Caucus has spoken. A total of 343 lawmakers, from both chambers and both parties, supported a bill ..


Saving Congress from itself

Rancor and recrimination are suffocating Washington like a summer heat wave, but the nasty tone of the debate obscures an ..


The Good Political Wife

PALM DESERT, Calif. – Since her death at 93, Betty Ford has been justly praised for publicizing her battles with ..


Lessons from the 'DSK Moment'

The chambermaid who accused a powerful French politician of attempted rape in a New York hotel last May turns out ..


Master media manipulator

Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour through America’s historic sites could be the start of a presidential campaign. Or she ..


A vulnerable voice is heard

They listened to the woman. That is the most remarkable part of the sordid sex scandal ensnaring Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ..


Time for some friendly compromise

“Let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.” Using his triumphal announcement that Osama bin ..


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