GOP Hear Them Roar by Cliff Schecter As I watch this Republican presidential primary season proceed in a manner roughly consistent with the course of the Costa Concordia, it has led me to a suspicion I feel honor-bound to share: I think the Republicans are throwing this thing. I’m not yet sure why. It could be that it better sets them up for a president they actually want in 2016, or that Mitt Romney made a $10,000 bet against himself, or that there’s some sort of a sweater-vest endorsement...

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Obama the Almighty Conjures up the Female Vote by Susan Stamper Brown Sometimes, the very thing that could serve to become our demise becomes our pathway to victory when we choose to face it head-on and humble ourselves long enough to ask for a little help from the Almighty. Moses had his Red Sea, George Washington his Valley Forge, and Barack Obama has his 2012 re-election campaign. Moses lifted his eyes and his staff toward heaven while George Washington bowed his head and bent his knee. And,...

John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune The 2012 Political Animal Awards by Will Durst Don’t mean to overreact and risk boosting everybody’s blood pressure higher than opening offers on Facebook’s upcoming IPO, but this might be a halfway decent time to seek out a nice, safe steel bunker to hunker down in or behind, because it’s awards season and heavy metal statuettes are being tossed around like dimes at a county fair. Like the flurry of resumes from the outer office of Michele...

Make a Difference for Foster Children by Michael Reagan I am an adopted son. I am a very lucky adopted son. And as an adopted son I want all adoptees like me to have the same wonderful adoptive parents I was lucky enough to have. My biological mother was an unmarried young woman from Ohio who had an affair with a married man. It was 1945 — my biological father was in the Army and was shipped off to France to fight in the war while my mother went to California to give birth to me. My mother...

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Burning Down The GOP House by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown The GOP presidential contest is officially out of control. We blame Mitt Romney. While the race has been winnowed down, it is still fluid, and one of four candidates could be chosen to battle against Barack Obama in the fall election. Problem is, once the nominee is chosen he may be so bloodied that he will limp into the contest with Obama mortally wounded by his home team. Nomination battles are meant to be intramural affairs that showcase...

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune Is Santorum the Jeremy Lin of Politics? by Jan Ting Rick Santorum, the defeated former senator from Pennsylvania, was given no chance when he announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Rejected by the Republican establishment supporting Mitt Romney, he waged a lonely and underfunded grassroots effort that ultimately gave him the edge in the Iowa caucuses. This past Tuesday he won all three primaries in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, and now...

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Why Import Engineers? Study Shows U.S. Has Engineering Surplus; Why the Pressure to Import More? by Joe Guzzardi Earlier this week, a live online video chat featured President Obama and Jennifer Weddel, the wife of an unemployed engineer whose husband has been out of a job for three years. Weddel asked the president: “Why does the government continue to extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my [engineer] husband with no job?” Caught off guard, Obama tried to deflect...

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Obama Does What? by Peter Funt We know President Obama did something Friday related to rules covering contraception and health insurance for employees of religious organizations. But how do you characterize his action in a short headline? What’s the appropriate verb to follow “Obama…”? Saturday’s front pages went in many, telling, directions. The Boston Globe and Seattle Times were among those who said, “Obama bends.” But The Wall Street Journal and the Providence...

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A Little More Heat by Michael Reagan It seems to me that what is missing in the top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination is passion. While Ron Paul speaks with passion of the Federal Reserve and Rick Santorum speaks with passion about life, Newt Gingrich speaks passionately mostly about Mitt Romney; and Mitt, it seems, merely speaks in sound bites. I don’t know about you, but I want to see them seek to build their own shining city on a hill such as that my dad envisioned,...

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