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Editorial: Romney’s case to repeal
“If a mandate was the solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house,” President Obama said in 2008, arguing against legally requiring individuals to buy health insurance.
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Karl Rove, Howard Dean joke and debate foreign, domestic policy
Duke U. got its own foreign policy debate before the nation did Monday night. In the evening before the final presidential debate, Karl Rove—political analyst and former senior advisor to former President George W.
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Editorial: Obama, Romney fail to make distinctions
Monday night, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney met at Lynn U. in Boca Raton, Fla. for the third and final presidential debate of the 2012 election season. The debate, moderated by CBS’s Bob Scheiffer, focused on foreign policy.
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Obama, Romney face off on foreign policy in final debate
The presidential debate series concluded on Oct. 22 at Lynn U. in Boca Raton, Fla., with a discussion of foreign policy matters, though occasionally discussion turned toward the all-important issue of the economy.
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Column: The natural gas debate
On New Year’s Day 2009, a residential drinking water well in Dimock, Pennsylvania, exploded without warning.
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Obama says Romney suffers from “Romnesia”
President Obama visited the Fairfax campus of George Mason U. on Friday, October 19 where he came out swinging at Governor Mitt Romney, and, using a new attack line, called Romney a flip flopper on the issues and referred to his change of views as a case of “Romnesia.
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Column: Binders full of bigger problems
Mitt Romney generated a lot of flak for his “binders full of women” remark during Thursday’s second presidential debate. And he deserves to be criticized, but not for some throw-away comment taken wildly out of context.
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Column: Clean coal debate boils down to debate on size of government
As Election Day nears, don’t worry about trying to understand every issue the candidates discuss. Instead, look at the effects of those ideas. There are so many issues that come up in the presidential race and it is next to impossible for voters to be knowledgeable about all of them.
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Hillary Clinton talks energy goals
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the importance of energy and its status as a 21st-century foreign policy priority at Georgetown U. Thursday afternoon.