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Joe Gandelman: Democratic moles bringing down Romney?

It just HAS to be how it happened: TO: Bob Shrum, James Carville, Ed Schultz and Democratic National Committee staff. FROM: Howard Schmidlap, President, Political Sandbaggers Corp., Oriskiny Falls, N.Y...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 19, 2012 - 8:28pm

Jason Stanford: Why did the Tea Party play nice?

Remember that time the Tea Party Republicans in Congress almost forced the United States to default on its debt obligations by refusing to raise the debt ceiling? Remember how the...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 19, 2012 - 12:49am

Byron York: Romney will be judged on actions, not coverage

Salena Zito, a reporter with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, watched Mitt Romney’s Sept. 12 news conference from a diner in Wisconsin. Customers paid careful attention to the TV as reporters repeatedly...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 19, 2012 - 12:48am

Reid should name source in tax question

Harry Reid says someone told him that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid any taxes in the past 10 years. Who? Who would know that? Romney (not a likely source), or his...

opinion / letters Tue, Sep 18, 2012 - 1:43am

Steve and Cokie Roberts: Candidates add email to their arsenals

On Sept. 5, Michelle Obama sent a message to her husband’s email list with the subject line, “As always, thank you.” It was the morning after her speech to the...

opinion / commentary Tue, Sep 18, 2012 - 1:34am

Donna Brazile: Forward to a better future

Citing the preamble to the Constitution that united 13 independent states and created the United States of America by forming a more perfect union, former President Bill Clinton said, “If...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 12, 2012 - 1:07am

Steve and Cokie Roberts: Social media fundamentally changes rules of engagement

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Outside the convention hall here, volunteers circulated through the crowd at a street festival, hunting for recruits. Want an Obama bumper sticker? They’re free. Just text us...

opinion / commentary Mon, Sep 10, 2012 - 4:53pm

Susan Stamper Brown: Ground Zero changes no one should believe in

Life is messy and full of unexpected twists along the way leaving even the most obsessive control freaks among us feeling a bit undone, considering so much of the change...

opinion / commentary Mon, Sep 10, 2012 - 4:52pm

Minn. to keep enforcing campaign disclosure law

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's campaign watchdog says corporations and other groups are still required to reveal campaign fundraising and spending later this month after a federal appeals court...

news Mon, Sep 10, 2012 - 4:49pm

Attack on Rep. Howes distorts truth

The DFL Caucus is slinging mud again and it won’t stick. The attack ad that was in the Pioneer the other day against Rep. Larry Howes isn’t telling the truth...

opinion / letters Fri, Sep 07, 2012 - 3:09am

Gene Lyons: Paul Ryan doesn’t need facts

Back in my college days, a fellow from my hometown went around telling people he’d been an all-state high school football player. In reality, he’d been a benchwarmer. He was...

opinion / commentary Fri, Sep 07, 2012 - 3:07am

Susan Stamper Brown: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the coolest prez of all?

Barack Obama is probably one of the coolest presidents in American history. He reaches rock star status when cameras catch him sporting his Ray-Ban 3217s, which are, for all you...

opinion / commentary Fri, Sep 07, 2012 - 3:05am

President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday. J. Scott Applewhite | Associated Press

Road to recovery: Obama says path will be hard, but challenge ‘can be met’

By DAVID ESPO, Associated Press Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — His re-election in doubt, President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress Thursday night toward fixing the nation’s stubborn economic woes,...

news Fri, Sep 07, 2012 - 2:57am

Byron York: Politicking for next time

South Carolina is not a swing state. Solidly Republican, it will vote for Mitt Romney by a large margin this November. With so many other states hanging in the balance,...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 05, 2012 - 10:05pm

Joe Gandelman: American politics: Like talking to an empty chair?

PUEBLO, Colo. — When President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented Raymond G. “Jerry” Murphy with a Medal of Honor in 1953, he noted that Pueblo nicknamed “the Steel City,” has had...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 05, 2012 - 10:04pm

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