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People Speak: Is California’s death penalty costing too much in lives, money?
Gil Garcetti is walking in downtown Los Angeles in front of a building he is very familiar with. He is standing outside the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, a place he spent 32 years prosecuting dozens of death penalty cases.…
What Americans know that Obama and Romney do not
Mitt Romney’s off the record remarks are potentially a very serious problem for him. By dividing the country into those who pay taxes and those who don’t pay taxes, the former Massachusetts governor has made both a substantive error and…
Obama, Romney and the Bain Capital attacks
No matter how effective the Bain Capital attacks on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney have been, there has been no shift in President Obama’s position vis-à-vis the Massachusetts governor – as evidenced by recent polling.
President Obama and Mitt Romney…
Obama may blame GOP for a bad jobs report but it’s no subsitute for leadership
President Obama’s news conference Friday on jobs and the economy offered the American public nothing new. He blamed the Congress and Republicans specifically for our woes. ;
The president’s remarks on the economy and Congress echo President Truman’s on the…
Obama campaign turns to Nixon’s enemies list
The Obama campaign appears to have taken a page from Nixon’s reelection campaign playbook — and is now mounting attacks on private individuals.
On April 20, the website KEEPINGGOPHONEST.COM published a post titled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of…
Thomas Friedman’s energy fantasies
You can tell an aging con man has run out of new ideas when all he can do is mindlessly re-peddle the old ones. Thomas Friedman’s predictable sneer at the Republican primary process in The New York Times on Feb.…
Comeback for Newt or bump in the road for Mitt? SC votes to keep the race going
What do South Carolina’s Republican primary voters, who identify themselves as late decision-makers, conservatives, evangelicals, married women and independents, have in common? They all gave Newt Gingrich a plurality of their support in the all-important “first in the South primary,”…
NAACP Is Playing Politics, Big Time!
If it wasn’t clear before, the NAACP’s resolution to paint the Tea Party movement as racist leaves no doubt that the once venerable group has irreparably destroyed its reputation and sullied its past prestige.
How is it that the same…
The Government Cannot Protect Us From Every Catastrophe We Face
Tuesday night, in an Oval Office speech to the nation, President Obama took the gloves off.
He lashed out at BP over the monumental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He vowed that he will make BP pay for…
Tracking Your Taxes: Programs Proven to be Wasteful, but Still There
The Congressional Budget Office and the White House Office of Management and Budget say billions are being wasted on projects that are not needed or duplicative — and experts say one reason the federal budget is out of control is…
