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...Watergate and beyond working together. He is one of the people who, when people say your books are this way or that, he reads them and realizes that they are not political but factual, though he would personally take more of a stand on things. I am a non-partisan, ink-stained, 63-year-old reporter…if you can get ink on you from a computer. I do, from my laser jet printer. Sometimes, it sprays...
...toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome - others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends...
...While some have reduced a critical and complex foreign policy issue to a debating point in partisan politics, it is important to sort out the facts of what has happened in the past decade or so if we want to chart a more effective course for policy...
...federal budget. Eventually, he realizes he has been filibustering and apologizes to the crowd for "making a speech." No one seems to care, since Obama is doing something pretty rare in latter-day American politics: he is respecting their intelligence. He's a liberal, but not a screechy partisan. Indeed, he seems obsessively eager to find common ground with conservatives. "It's such a relief after all the screaming you see on TV," says Chuck Sweeny, political editor of the Rockford Register Star. "Obama is reaching out. He's saying the other side isn't evil. You can't imagine...
...held up in Congress since June because it is coupled with the stalled comprehensive immigration reform bill. Congress ought to immediately decouple this bill in order to pass it, benefiting the U.S. and skilled workers from abroad. This is an issue of bipartisan agreement, unfortunately wedded to a messy partisan nightmare.Beyond the inconveniences posed to individual college students, the implications of allowing the SKIL Bill to remain uncoupled and ergo, un-passed, are much more far-reaching. The U.S. should not be a factory for churning out skilled workers and then shipping them back overseas. Instead, we should...