The Burial of Innocence: A Newtown Postscript
The burials have already begun, up there in Connecticut. Cheeky young football fan Jack Pinto and rambunctious, bright-eyed Noah...
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Two Nations, Indivisible
Maybe it is 1860 all over again. Within days after President Obama’s re-election, disgruntled red-state Republicans (and even...
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Election Night 2012: Is It 1860 All Over Again?
We couldn’t have asked for a more portentious finale to a hard-fought presidential campaign. The swirling storm swept up the...
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Third Debate Recap: Obama vs. the Land Shark
Most reasonably objective viewers (and even a few conservative ones) scored the third and final presidential debate as a solid win...
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Obama Strikes Back with a Left to the Chin: the Se...
I miss the days when heavyweight boxing loomed large over the American cultural landscape. The great champs were men of mythic...
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Romney’s Smile and Obama’s Frown: Ling...
Hard to believe (isn’t it?) that as I write these words, less than a week has passed since the first debate between Mitt Romney...
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Solving the Voter I.D. Controversy in 500 Words or...
I’ll keep this one short, because we’re looking at one of the simplest issues ever to cause mass consternation across the...
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The Prophet Motive: Islamists on the Rampage
The Islamic world is ablaze, and once again the target of the Islamists’ wrath is (guess who) the United States. The protests...
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What We’ll Remember About All Those 2012 Dem...
Now that the 2012 Democratic National Convention has winked into history, a dozen or so memorable moments continue to glow like...
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Image vs. Reality at the GOP Convention
Give those Republicans some due credit: they’ve been putting on the kind of show that would have done Ziegfeld proud. Saddled...
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