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In Jumping to Rubio’s Defense, Romney Exacerbates the Origin Story Uproar

Yesterday I posted a commentary in this space on what I believe was liberal hypocrisy in the wake of last Thursday’s Washington Post article on conservative U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. But today, in fairness, I think former Massachusetts Governor and leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should be called to question for labeling the Post piece a “smear.”

Birtherism Redux: The Right and the Left Overreach On Marco Rubio’s Origins

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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio got it from both sides this past week. First it was the birthers, who it turns out are equal opportunity delusionals. The nativist activists, who’ve misspent every waking hour since November 2008 claiming Barack Obama is not really a U.S. citizen, and therefore not really our President, have no qualms about [...]

A Personal Note About TIME

I had read TIME Magazine for as long as I could remember, even signed up for my own subscription when I was in college. So when I went to work here more than 15 years ago, I thought I had an appreciation for the power of that red border. But as it turned out, Newt [...]

Health Care: Making It All Add Up

There’s a real chicken-and-egg conundrum going on up on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers are clamoring to see the final health care legislation. But their leaders can’t settle on a bill until they know it gets a favorable “score” from the Congressional Budget Office. But the Congressional Budget Office can’t issue its number until it has a [...]

Toles on Health Care

As always, Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles nails it brilliantly:

Euphemism of the Day: “Morale Welfare Recreation”

This is the term Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company now called Xe, allegedly used to classify the salary of a Filipino prostitute who worked with the company’s male employees in Afghanistan. Her salary was allegedly billed to the U.S. Government, and is now the subject of a civil whistle blower lawsuit filed by two [...]

Outrageous

This is an unbelievable (and not in a good sense) editorial by Charlotte Allen in the Washington Post today. The basic gist: women are silly for liking Obama and expressing it (or expressing enthusiasm in general for anything). Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate and women on the whole are dumb. Two excepts: Take Sen. [...]