Talk of raising minimum wage growing silent
— April 12, 2017For quite a while you couldn’t read a newspaper or watch news on TV without hearing about raising the minimum wage. It was THE hot topic. I can’t remember the last time…
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Crashing back to Earth
— April 5, 2017Let’s dispense with the sanctimony and admit it: Most of us really enjoy piling on. I know I do. There are few things more exhilarating than participating in mass malice. Rarely…
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On Obamacare, a partywide failure
— April 5, 2017There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care. They came up with a substantively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd fast…
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How the GOP crackup happens
— March 29, 2017Less than two weeks after the unveiling of the GOP Obamacare replacement, the party is already staring into the abyss. The bill has had the worst rollout of any major piece of legislation…
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The national illness
— March 22, 2017Many Republican leaders are leery about having their name attached to the GOP’s replacement for Obamacare, a health care overhaul they have demonized since it was passed seven…
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Founding Fathers knew what they were doing
— April 5, 2017I’m proud to be an American. I just don’t say it enough. We seldom do. We expend our breath on politics, complaining about our elected officials. But too seldom do we stand back…
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Skinny, but overweight
— March 29, 2017It’s called a “skinny budget,” because it’s just a president’s blueprint for where the federal money goes, and it doesn’t get into details. Those…
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More are asking: ‘Where is my free cheese?’
— March 29, 2017“Where’s my free cheese?” A few years back I was assigned a story on the distribution of government surplus cheese to people deemed by the government to live in poverty. The cheese…
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