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On Food, and What it May Constitute

Pizza, says Congress, is a vegetable. Pepper spray, says Fox News host Megyn Kelly, is a food product. The expanding definition of the word “food” never ceases to amaze me. In responding to the pizza legislation, the news m...
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The Word of the Week is “Scandal”

Over the last few months, a number of upstart movements and candidates have dominated polls and news coverage by being both radical and a bit less than controlled. Now, seemingly at the same time, they’re beginning to fal...
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In Playing Conventional Politics, Mitt Romney is Alone

There’s long been a chasm between both the behavior and politics of Mitt Romney and the Republican’s “flavor of the week,” to quote Herman Cain. But while past short-time front runners like Rick Perry and Michele Bachma...
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You Have Our Attention, Now Stop Pooping on Things

If you were to ask the protesters at the Occupy Wall Street movement, they represent 99 percent of Americans. But various reports and polls–not to mention their behavior–have said quite the opposite. Opinion polls show that...
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Herman Cain and the Electrocuted Alligators

A recent poll released by Rasmussen Reports shows that Americans would choose Herman Cain over Barack Obama by a 43 to 41 percent margin if a general election were held today. That means that only 16 percent of Americans are ti...
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Christie Represents the Conservative Image of Bipartisanship

Obama added the word ‘bipartisan’ to Washington’s short list of favorite words in 2008 when he convinced America that more cooperation was the answer to our problems. Republicans promptly made it impossible for compromise...
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