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By Will Offensicht | Jan 29, 2008 |
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If he can't be the president, being one heartbeat away might be nearly as good. How does Obama-Kennedy for President sound?
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 22, 2008 |
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Rich people are voting with their feet: they're grabbing their wallets and running away.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 17, 2008 |
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We gripe about bias in the mainstream media because freedom of the press is only meaningful if you happen to own a press, but enough people have presses to keep politicians on their toes.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 15, 2008 |
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Bush-bashers hate to admit it, but a smaller percentage of active-duty military personnel died during both Bush administrations than during the Reagan and Carter administrations.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 12, 2008 |
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Principals have be to able to fire teachers, or you can't run an effective school.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 11, 2008 |
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Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like. In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 10, 2008 |
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A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 7, 2008 |
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One of the supreme ironies of our time is that a religiously-motivated US president went to war in the name of God to set up a non-religious state in Iraq to protect Americans against a highly religious movement known as Al Qaeda.
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By Will Offensicht | Dec 29, 2007 |
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Of course Mr. Musharraf doesn't want to share power. Who does? Does The Times want to share power and influence with the LA Times or with the Washington Post? Of course not.
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By Will Offensicht | Dec 25, 2007 |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, stirred up a storm when he spoke of the Nativity as a "myth." The Pope didn't have that problem. Perhaps the Pope has a stronger brand identity than does the Church of England?