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Should black people tolerate this?

Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person.

Keeping business honest

It took me too long to understand that business's desire for profit is a good thing.

Cheer, Cheer for Old Notre Dame

Not only has Obama failed to protect the consciences of American Catholics and Catholic institutions, including Notre Dame, he has directly attacked their freedom of conscience.

Obama's morbid vanity

I recently came across Nathaniel Hawthorne's haunting short story "Wakefield," and I couldn't help but notice similarities (and differences) between Wakefield and President Obama.

What if Zimmerman walks free?

The campaign to convict George Zimmerman of racist murder in the public mind, before he ever got to trial, proceeds on.

Big lies in Politics

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.

Obama pursues higher tax rates, growth be damned

In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

Angela Merkel against the world

The G8 becomes 7 against 1 on stimulus spending.

The 'Wright Stuff:' Examining the Jeremiah Wright election

The Washington Post's front-page story on Mitt Romney's high school pranks proved that there is no statute of limitations on old political news.

Obama's 'Nauseating' Attacks on Free Enterprise

It's bad enough the Obama campaign refuses to talk about their record on the economy. It's worse that they'd distract from it with outright distortions.

Jerry Brown a dishonest bore

He recently joked that there's plenty of money "sloshing around" in California, and that the rich are doing just fine. But such words are only a reminder of what a bore the man has become.

A nightmare in Tewksbury

Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: "What country are we in?" He and his wife Pat are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare unfolding in Orwellian language.

President Obama's gay marriage goof

Just how bad a blunder was President Obama's forced gay marriage endorsement?

Family mysteries

Like many Americans, genealogy has been a keen interest of mine...

Hating the rich

Today, many Democrats believe the wealthy are bad to the bone. A new Gallup poll asks: "Do you think the U.S. benefits from having a class of rich people or not?"

Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?

There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy...

How the gay-marriage mob slimed Manny Pacquiao

Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is guilty -- of being true to his Catholic faith.

Extend the Bush tax cuts now

In Boehner's efforts to prevent the Bush tax cuts from expiring, he is aggressively taking on President Obama's leadership ineptitude on the economy.

Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?

Republicans now depend on the vanishing majority of the population for fully 90 percent of their votes in presidential elections.

The menace of bipartisanship

Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent.
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