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                            August 2, 2013To See Where Country is Heading, Ignore Washington by Scott Rasmussen
It's no secret that both political parties are struggling to connect with voters. Strategists dream up marketing plans to increase their party's appeal to this constituency or that group. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. But they never establish a deep and lasting connection with voters.
That's because most of what the parties talk about is yesterday's news and is largely irrelevant to the realities of the 21st century.
August 1, 2013We Don't Need Political Mini Royals By Froma Harrop
Can Huma save Anthony Weiner? Why Huma "stands by her man." What is Huma thinking? These and other pseudo questions top our political news these days.
August 1, 2013Measuring GOP Extremism: What Carville and Greenberg's Latest Polling Reveals By Joe Conason
It is becoming increasingly plain that the most formidable obstacle to national progress and global security is the Republican Party -- and specifically the extremist factions that currently dominate the GOP.
July 31, 2013Are We Rome Yet? By John Stossel
Unfortunately, the fall of Rome is a pattern repeated by empires throughout history ... including ours?
A group of libertarians gathered in Las Vegas recently for an event called "FreedomFest." We debated whether America will soon fall, as Rome did.
Historian Carl Richard said that today's America resembles Rome.
July 30, 2013Both GOP and Democrats Have Party Problems By Michael Barone
Since last November's election there has been a lot of punditry about the fissures and schisms in the Republican Party. The divisions are real, and some of the commentary has been revealing.    
July 30, 2013America's Wilderness Gets Crowded By Froma Harrop
Ever since Yosemite National Park won fame for its natural Western splendor, it's gone on many a register of things to see before one dies. It remains a bucket-list favorite, only nowadays there are millions, if not billions, more buckets. The park's crowds have become such that officials there are struggling to find ways to ease the crush of humanity.
July 26, 2013Obama Economy Emphasis Is all Talk By Michael Barone
We have a president who loves to give campaign speeches to adoring crowds, but who doesn't seem to have much interest in governing.
July 26, 2013Cheap Labor Is Nobody's Right By Froma Harrop
The Declaration of Independence says nothing about a right to cheap labor, but not everyone has noticed. Companies routinely pay market rates for electricity, real estate and legal services. But many find great injustice in market economics, as applied to wages they must pay to attract unskilled labor.    
July 25, 2013If Republicans Love Competition, Why Do They Still Hate Obamacare? By Joe Conason
When asked what makes the world work, any self-respecting right-wing Republican knows the politically correct answer: competition! (With at least one exclamation point.) It is the paramount principle and universal solvent perennially touted by the right to cure whatever ails us -- in the abstract.
July 24, 2013Stalled Motor City By John Stossel
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry -- the same TV commentator who said Americans need to stop raising kids as if they belong to individual families -- had an extraordinary explanation for why the city of Detroit sought to declare bankruptcy last week: not enough government.     
July 24, 2013Straying Politicians' Five Shades of Gray By Froma Harrop
Much has been written about adulterous politicians and the public's apparent willingness to look past their infidelity. This lumps very different kinds of cheating into one neat sin, equally applicable to all sneaks. But just as "theft" covers everything from armed bank robbery to lifting a bag of chips, cheating on one's spouse may entail a wide range of misdeeds and gray areas.
July 23, 2013The Second American Revolution Has Begun By Mark Meckler
The first American Revolution was fought over the simple principle of self-governance. For over 150 years, approximately five generations, the British Crown had practiced “benign neglect” towards the colonies, and the people of America had governed themselves.  However, by the mid-1760s, England was asserting control over the colonies and their residents.
July 23, 2013A Woman in Full: Thatcher Gets Her Due in New Biography By Michael Barone
The first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain's victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among the finest political biographies of all time.
July 19, 2013A Better System for Picking Presidential Candidates By Michael Barone
You can get agreement from almost all points on the political spectrum that the worst aspect of our political system is the presidential nomination process. It is perhaps no coincidence that it is the one part of the system not treated in the Constitution.
That's because the Founding Fathers abhorred political parties and hoped that presidents would be selected by something like an elite consensus. But we have political parties, the oldest and third oldest in the world, and they are not going away.
July 19, 2013The Pitfalls of Public Exercise By Froma Harrop
The most memorable scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" is Eva Marie Saint hanging from the side of Mount Rushmore in a perfectly tailored red suit, sheer stockings and pumps. The character hadn't planned for that situation, but her dress was nonetheless deemed proper, circa 1959, for touring South Dakota's Black Hills. In the previous Chicago and New York City shots, she, Cary Grant and most everyone else wore business or evening attire. No shorts, no flip-flops, not even jeans without rips.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                
                
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                            July 19, 2013Confronting America's Racial Divide By Scott Rasmussen
Sixty-four percent of Americans say that it's possible to have an honest discussion about race in America. I would like to believe that, but I am skeptical.  
July 18, 2013Not Listening: What Republicans Could Learn From George W. Bush By Joe Conason
During most of the Obama presidency, George W. Bush has maintained a decorous silence. Keeping quiet may not always have been easy for Bush, watching his successor repudiate and unwind his legacy, from Iraq to Afghanistan and beyond, but his discretion was wise under the circumstances. Suddenly, however, he is speaking out to urge a "positive resolution" to the debate over immigration reform -- and the time to listen to him has surely arrived.
July 18, 2013It’s Time for Another Constitutional Convention By Mark Meckler
For many years there has been heated debate in this country about the need for an Article V convention to amend the U.S. Constitution.  On both sides of the American political spectrum, there have been calls for - and a great fear of - such a gathering.
July 17, 2013Strangling Life By John Stossel
There are now 175,000 pages' worth of federal laws. Local governments add more.
I'm not so cynical that I think politicians pass laws just to control us. Someone always thinks: "This law is needed. This will protect people."
July 17, 2013Curse of the Full-Time Job By Froma Harrop
Free time is the great hunger for so many productive Americans, often trumping money. Studies show a huge desire for more self- and family-time, especially among parents. But Americans remain stuck in work schedules drawn up early last century. That doesn't make sense today, so why do we continue punching the old time clocks?

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To See Where Country is Heading, Ignore Washington by Scott Rasmussen

We Don't Need Political Mini Royals By Froma Harrop

Measuring GOP Extremism: What Carville and Greenberg's Latest Polling Reveals By Joe Conason

Are We Rome Yet? By John Stossel

Both GOP and Democrats Have Party Problems By Michael Barone

America's Wilderness Gets Crowded By Froma Harrop

Obama Economy Emphasis Is all Talk By Michael Barone

Cheap Labor Is Nobody's Right By Froma Harrop

If Republicans Love Competition, Why Do They Still Hate Obamacare? By Joe Conason

Stalled Motor City By John Stossel

Straying Politicians' Five Shades of Gray By Froma Harrop

The Second American Revolution Has Begun By Mark Meckler

A Woman in Full: Thatcher Gets Her Due in New Biography By Michael Barone

A Better System for Picking Presidential Candidates By Michael Barone

The Pitfalls of Public Exercise By Froma Harrop

Confronting America's Racial Divide By Scott Rasmussen

Not Listening: What Republicans Could Learn From George W. Bush By Joe Conason

It’s Time for Another Constitutional Convention By Mark Meckler

Strangling Life By John Stossel

Curse of the Full-Time Job By Froma Harrop

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