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I Find Having A Column A Very Difficult Form Of Journalism. I'm Not A Natural Like Tom Friedman And Anna Quindlen.

A Friendship Between Reporter And Source Lasts Only Until It Is Profitable For One To Betray The Other.

For Two Centuries, The South Has Feared A Takeover By Blacks Or The Feds. In Obama, They Have Both.

Obama Also Allowed Hillary Supporters To Insert An Absurd Statement Into The Platform Suggesting That Media Sexism Spurred Her Loss And That “demeaning Portrayals Of Women ... Dampen The Dreams Of Our Daughters.” ... It Would Have Been Better To Put This Language In The Platform: “a Woman Who Wildly Mismanages And Bankrupts A Quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Campaign Operation, And Then Blames Sexism In Society, Will Dampen The Dreams Of Our Daughters.”

Paul Ryan, Who Teamed Up With Akin In The House To Sponsor Harsh Anti-abortion Bills, May Look Young And Hip And New Generation, With His Ipod Full Of Heavy Metal Jams And His Cute Kids. But He's Just A Fresh Face On A Taliban Creed - The Evermore Antediluvian, Anti-women, Anti-immigrant, Anti-gay Conservative Core. Amiable In Khakis And Polo Shirts, Ryan Is The Perfect Modern Leader To Rally Medieval Republicans Who Believe That Adam And Eve Cavorted With Dinosaurs.