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Actually, Americans do care about corporate campaign cash
In Sunday's Post, former congressman and head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Martin Frost said that corporate campaign money is "something the average voter couldn't care less about" and that Congress should "leave campaign finance reform to the...
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| November 8, 2010; 1:26 PM ET |
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Washington State's 'Robin Hood' tax
In an electoral development that must have Ayn Rand rolling in her grave, voters in Washington State will decide next Tuesday on I-1098, a.k.a. the "Robin Hood Initiative." With no state income tax, Washingtonians currently suffer under what the...
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| October 29, 2010; 1:27 PM ET |
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Gerson is wrong on Obama's 'snobbery'
Michael Gerson assailed President Obama Tuesday for being an "intellectual snob." For Gerson, Obama is the arrogant, "neocortical president" who blames his problems on those idiot Americans who are too stupid to think clearly in these difficult times. Obama's...
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| October 20, 2010; 6:21 AM ET |
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The morality of trade with China
Before heading off to recess, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill authorizing imposing tariffs on Chinese goods unless China stops manipulating its currency. The House's action has sent off a storm of warnings in The Post and...
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| October 14, 2010; 12:52 PM ET |
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The Democrats should run on Social Security
If Democrats really want to rally their base and win over voters who are either on the fence or thinking of sitting this midterm election out, they'd be smart to start talking Social Security. You won’t find a lack...
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| October 4, 2010; 11:37 AM ET |
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Declaring a cease-fire on Hitler analogies
Dana Milbank's interesting analysis of Glenn Beck's obsession with Nazism leads me to make a proposal for improving our increasingly degraded national political discussion: Stop equating our ideological opponents with famous dictators, their chief executioners, police apparatus or ideologies....
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| October 3, 2010; 6:59 PM ET |
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