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Lyndon B. Johnson: The Greatest Texan

A Texan has pulled out of the 2012 Republican Party nomination race for U.S. president, but once there was a Texan who did not back away from anything. That is, at least not until the sunset of his political life. His name was Lyndon B. Johnson.

Why Are Obama’s Supporters So Dumb?

U.S. Health Care Reform Act
Let me start by apologizing for the title of this column. It's crass, uncharitable, maybe even a bit misleading. But, in my defense, let me explain that I got the idea from Newsweek, which we all know is a highly respectable magazine.
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SOPA: Reddit Blackout Will Speak Loud, Clear

For addicted reddit users -- sometimes referred to as redditors -- that's a hard pill to swallow -- half a day without the front page of the Internet, the social news Web site where registered users submit content so other users to vote it up, or down, and chime in with insight that is typically informative but almost always interesting, to say the least.
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Societal Momentum Pushing America Toward Inability to Self-Govern

Societies and nations are very much like people in how stubborn and resistant to change they are. Few forces are actually capable of suddenly changing the base nature of people, on either a large or small scale, and it takes a great deal of sustained effort over a long period of time for them to change their own nature.
Tim Tebow Spoof

Tebow’s Presidential Caucus: GOP Candidates Seek Endorsement

This week, Tim Tebow told reporters that more than one Republican presidential candidate has called to request his public endorsement. A brand new phase of the presidential primary has begun. You thought Iowa and New Hampshire were big. Those are nothing compared to the Tebow caucus.
2012 Election

For Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, the New Hampshire Primary Beckons

A divided Republican Party ends its debate marathon during its 2012 nomination process by beginning another marathon: the primaries. However, Mitt Romney will try to make the race a short one by winning big Tuesday night in the New Hampshire primary.
2012 Election

Christie Responds to Female Hecklers with Offensive Sex Joke at Romney Rally

While directing a sexually-charged statement toward female audience members is something the Republican Party -- or any political party -- may logically want to stay away from in an election year, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's Sunday appearance at a Romney for President rally suggests he's not an expert yet regarding the constructive way to address hecklers.
Andrew Cuomo

New York Casino: Cuomo Bets on Aqueduct; Cabbies Rejoice

Governor Cuomo has proposed tearing down the Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side and is proposing that Aqueduct Raceway, now a racino (raceway & casino) be developed into a full-fledged convention center, which might then be called a Crackino, that is, a convention-track-casino center.
Show-goers pass by the Dolby booth during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada

Technology Focus: Consumer Electronics Has More Consequences Than Fun

The $190 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry is about to began its annual winter extravaganza in Las Vegas where the latest toys, gadgets, smartphones, video games, TVs, cameras and laptops will be unveiled – some not to be available until late in 2012.The real story may be in improving people's lives.
Ron Paul

Ron Paul 2012: About That Jon Huntsman Video …

Ron Paul's 2012 presidential run is embroiled in another scandal -- an anonymous professed Paul supporter posted a YouTube video against Republican rival Jon Huntsman that was tinged with racism and targeted Huntsman's daughters.
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Building New York: Visions for the Future at Javits, Aqueduct

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new plan to sell the Jacob Javits Center and build the largest convention center in the country at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens is an urban upheaval on a scale that evokes the legacy of Robert Moses, the parks commissioner who shaped the city in wide swaths in the middle of the last century.
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Student Loan Debt and the Culture of Borrowing

The Federal Reserve predicts student loan debt will pass the $1 trillion mark this year. Students are taking out twice as much as they did 10 years ago (even after adjusting for inflation) and can't pay it back. From politicians to protesters, Americans are offering solutions to this seemingly impossible problem.
Cerf is wrong: The Internet is a Civil Right

Internet Censorship: Is the Internet a Human Right?

Vinton Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the Internet," has written an op-ed in the New York Times that argues against the notion that the internet is a human right. He also says the internet is not a civil right. I disagree with the latter.

China is Right to Ban Trash TV

The worst, most vulgar aspects of American pop culture are spilling across the globe – even in distant, alien lands like China and India.
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney hugs his wife Ann

Romney's Idea of Real Money: Just a New Yorker's Opinion

We were hanging around the Romney campaign headquarters after his recent 8-vote victory. The streamers were down and no one was left but a single volunteer, the candidate, and a final bit of unfinished business. There were just a few last calls to make to wrap things up in the Caucus state.

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