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Walter Reed: Victim of Underfunding and Privatization

As the Walter Reed scandal sears the public, more attention is being paid to whose heads should roll than what policies need reform. While both are important, if bad policies don't change, new people can't do a better job. It's becoming clear that Walter Reed suffers...

Newt: One of the "Worst Persons In The World"

Newt Gingrich's blaming of New Orleans' 9th Ward residents for a "failure of citizenship" by being unable to "get out of the way of a hurricane" -- remarks jointly pushed into the spotlight by this blog and Huffington Post's Matt Browner Hamlin -- won the coveted...

Conservatives Pout and Complain

My Campaign For America's Future colleague Eric Lotke has his take on CPAC posted at TomPaine.com, "CPAC: Conservatives Pout And Complain." Here's an excerpt: The conservatives at central headquarters don’t seem to have learned the lesson of 2006 ... Americans want...

The Conservative Movement: Stuck on Step 1

The following was initially posted at The Huffington Post. As everyone knows, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Yet during my three days attending the Conservative Political Action Conference, I failed to find much recognition from conservatives that...

Newt: The Savior?

The CPAC presidential straw poll was announced today, right before Newt Gingrich delivered the final address of the event. Mitt Romney nominally won, but with a paltry plurality of 21%, and he paid for "scores" of staffers to participate in the poll. Further, there...

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