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Jim DeMint resigns from Senate
By Alexander Bolton
From The Hill
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has resigned from the Senate to take over the conservative Heritage Foundation.
DeMint's decision to leave…
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Day by day: A saint for the Occupy era?
By Virginia Cannon
From The New Yorker
Dorothy Day, a heroine of the American left and perhaps the most famous radical in the history of the American Catholic Church, led one of…
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The evolution of the Puerto Rican vote
By Charles Mathesian
From Politico.com
NEW YORK - The out-migration of New Yorkers to Florida has altered politics in both states for decades and the trend appears to be continuing.…
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Cuba pushes swap: the Cuban Five for Alan Gross
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By Michael Isikoff
From NBC News
HAVANA, Cuba - It seems straight out of a Cold War spy movie. A group…
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Fiscal cliff better than Boehner’s lousy offer
By Jonathan Cohn
From The New Republic
One reality in the fiscal debate changed on Monday. And one did not.
Here’s the reality that changed: President Obama can no longer accuse…
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What did Susan Rice know and when did she know it
By Bill Press
We haven't heard much about the "politics of personal destruction" since Bill Clinton. But if you thought the days of mean, personal, political attacks were over, just…
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The face of greed
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein came to Capitol Hill this week to call for cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. As Congress and the White House are negotiating a…
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The sad state of zealots with microphones
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
America, you are an idiot.
You are a moocher, a zombie, soulless, mouth-breathing, ignorant, greedy, self-indulgent, envious, shallow and lazy.
The foregoing…
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Cuban Americans are many things, but few are conservatives
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés
Several of our friends expressed shock when they learned that President Obama had won some 48% of south Florida’s Cuban-American vote. One…
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Drop greatest and number one and feel proud
By Saul Landau
“We’re the Greatest! We’re number one!” - Kid Rock, screaming for Mitt Romney
Must we continue to brag about us being “The Greatest Country in the World”?
Imagine an…
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