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Play Time Is Over For ObamaCare’s Foes

Arnold Hamilton - January 24, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP Friends of ObamaCare, horrified that the Supreme Court has taken a case that could blow up the federal health insurance exchanges, should recalibrate their dread. While the health reforms were safely humming along, there was little political price for demanding their demise. Thanks to the Supreme Court, now there is. Years of […]

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Forty-Two Years Later

Arnold Hamilton - January 23, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It has been 42 years since the United States Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that the right to decide whether to go forward with a pregnancy, prior to viability, belongs to a woman, in consultation with her doctors. Forty-two years of marches and debates and occasional, horrible violence later, Roe […]

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Education Reform: Where Do We Start?

Arnold Hamilton - January 23, 2015 0

BY SHARON MARTIN I didn’t learn to swim as a child. After years of adult water aerobics, I came to realize that the water would...

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The Money Primary

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Will she or won’t she? She will. And by the time she does, she will have raised more money than any primary contender in history. Just a guess. In theory, under the new rules, the fact that Hillary Clinton has locked up 99% of the big Democratic money [OK, maybe just a […]

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How Tacky Can The Golden Arches Get?

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER McDonald’s is scrambling, and I’m not talking about eggs. You know your business has what image consultants call “quality perception issues” when you have to launch a PR initiative that publicly addresses such questions as: “Does McDonald’s beef contain worms?” Thornier yet for the world’s largest burger machine is its boneheaded response […]