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This is more daunting than a Rubik's cube: How in the world do you fit as many as 18 Republican candidates on one debate stage?
May 27, 2015
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Dick Polman
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave an impressive performance this week, glorifying the unconstitutional NSA program collecting and recording every American's digital communication.
May 26, 2015
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Rick Jensen
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If not for my son Gideon (age 11), I might have missed my deadline this week.
May 24, 2015
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Danny Tyree
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What's our national debt? The financial one that comes to mind is subservient to a second and deeper national debt.
May 24, 2015
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James F. Burns
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It was the most moving Memorial Day ceremony I've ever attended.
May 24, 2015
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Tom Purcell
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Here is what the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will achieve:
May 22, 2015
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Peter Funt
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On Friday, the House passed a massive National Defense Authorization for 2016 that will guarantee U.S. involvement in more wars and overseas interventions for years to come. The Republican majority resorted to trickery to evade the meager spending limitations imposed by the 2011 budget control act - limitations that did not, as often reported, cut military spending but only slowed its growth.
May 22, 2015
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Operation Jade Helm has inspired a million jokes, and some of them have even been funny. But as much as comedians might jump on Greg Abbott for sending the Texas State Guard to monitor military exercises as the latest excuse to mock the reactionary rubes south of the Red River, Texas now faces an existential crisis: Is the Governor really this crazy?
May 21, 2015
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Jason Stanford
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As it appears we're smack dab in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign announcement season, this might be the perfect time to ask the question on every American's lips: what kind of twisted psychopath chooses to do this? Who are these people that are so all fired up to enter this soul-sucking fray just to sit in an Office that is oval? Masochists? Sadists? Sadomasochists? Masosadochists? Folks who didn't pay attention during any previous election?
May 21, 2015
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Will Durst
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Tuesday night I went through a crash course in what really matters, in humanity, in mortality. I was watching the news reports about the Amtrak derailment, and amid my secondhand anguish for injured strangers I thanked God, literally thanked him out loud, for the fact that my immigration hearing in Baltimore had been canceled. Had it not been, I might have been sitting in one of those mangled cars.
May 20, 2015
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Christine Flowers
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Uncertainty, thy name is San Diego.
May 20, 2015
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Joe Gandelman
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We all know that the 2016 campaign will cost way more money than ever before - $10 billion is the latest head-spinning estimate - and that the reform laws aimed at curbing fat-cat clout have virtually collapsed. But still, it was shocking last week when the nation's top watchdog said that she's powerless to police the new Wild West.
May 19, 2015
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Dick Polman
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President Obama is "personally" offended his own party refuses to allow him to "fast track" the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement.
May 19, 2015
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Rick Jensen
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Proms sure have gotten expensive these days.
May 17, 2015
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Tom Purcell
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Books and pencils, not money.
May 17, 2015
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Michael Reagan
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