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With the media focused on a presidential election that is now five months away, any jobs data is going to be viewed from the standpoint of its possible impact on the campaigns.  Today’s dismal report that only 69,000 jobs were created last month, with jobs data for the last two months revised downward and the [...]

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Any public relations professional worth her salt will tell you: when you are dealing with an unfavorable news story — one that you know is going to have a negative impact — the best approach is to get ahead of the story, get all of the information out, and at least avoid the possibility that [...]

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Next Tuesday, June 5, Wisconsin voters will go to the polls to vote in the “recall” election of Republican Governor Scott Walker.  Political junkies, in Wisconsin and nationally, will be watching the results carefully. The recall election is the result of a petition drive that began after Walker pushed through reforms to address Wisconsin’s fiscal [...]

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What are we to make of the recent Democratic primary results, in which unknown candidates — including a current prison inmate — have managed to secure 40 percent or more of the vote in races against President Obama? In the West Virginia Democratic primary, a Texas convict named Keith Judd won 41 percent of the [...]

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David Brooks’ column The Age of Innocence is interesting, both for what it says and for what it means.  What it says is that the American political system is broken.  What it means is that even a columnist at one of the most powerful newspapers in the world lacks the gumption to make his point [...]

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Our bright and gifted nephew and godson, Andrew, put up a Facebook post stating that the David Brooks’ column The Age of Innocence in the New York Times was “great fodder for Webner House.”  I agree. In fact, I’d like to try a kind of experiment with Andrew’s suggestion that we really haven’t done before [...]

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If you’ve watched many TV “news” shows lately, you know they don’t really report much traditional news anymore.  You don’t see footage of reporters on the scene interviewing witnesses or the newsmakers themselves.  Instead, you see a suit in a studio, discussing the “news” with a suit in another studio.  Virtually everything is filtered through [...]

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California is teetering on the precipice.  Yesterday Governor Jerry Brown said the state is facing a $16 billion budget deficit.  He proposed some spending cuts to make up the shortfall and asked voters to vote to raise taxes, “temporarily.” If I were a California voter, I’d be a bit skeptical of Brown’s budget figures.  He [...]

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Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has announced that he won’t be spending resources to contest Republican primaries in any states that haven’t yet voted.  It’s just another reason why Mitt Romney is now described as the “presumptive” Republican nominee. Paul always seemed like somebody’s batty uncle.  Now that he’s called a kind [...]

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The news media is now reporting on Mitt Romney’s high school days.  The lead is about a 1965 incident where Romney allegedly led a pack of Cranbrook School students who tackled a new, long-haired student and forcibly cut his hair. Romney says he doesn’t recall the incident, but has apologized nevertheless.  We should all follow [...]

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Today President Obama announced that he has changed his mind about gay marriage and now favors it.  Opponents of the move called him a “flip-flopper.”  Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has modified his position on certain issues over the years.  He’s been criticized as a “flip-flopper,” too. I don’t get the “flip-flopper” criticism.  I think [...]

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In our neighboring state to the west, Indiana voters have decided that Senator Richard Lugar has served long enough.  The networks are calling his primary race and have concluded that he will lose to fellow Republican Richard Mourdock. I don’t blame Indiana voters for giving the 80-year-old Lugar the boot.  He has served in the [...]

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Today the April unemployment report is released.  It probably will be read more closely in the lobbying offices on K Street than in the trading pits on Wall Street. Americans vote with their pocketbooks.  For all the recent talk about Mitt Romney’s roof transportation of a family pet years ago, President Obama eating dog meat [...]

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The race for U.S. Senate has taken a weird turn in Massachusetts.  It’s making me very uncomfortable, and I bet I’m not alone in my reaction. The Democratic candidate is Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor.  At times in the past, she identified herself as a minority in a directory of law school professors, and [...]

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They’re talking about building a high-speed rail connection between Las Vegas and Victorville, California.  Of course, they’ve been talking about that idea for years.  The difference now is that our government is seriously considering making a $4.9 billion loan — that’s billion — to help finance the project. Amazing, isn’t it, that after the disastrous [...]

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