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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: Romney's denial of Bain responsibility fails laugh test
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Monday, July 16, 2012. Romney's denial of Bain responsibility fails laugh test. Is the outsourcing noose tightening around Mitt Romney. 8217;s neck, or is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee being unfairly accused of having headed a venture capital company that put profits ahead of preserving American jobs? The Obama campaign’s charge. Has hurt the GOP candidate, according to polls of voters in several battleground states. Left Bain in February 1999.
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: December 2011
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Gingrich and Trump at war with GOP. When it became clear the Republican presidential debate for which he had been tapped to serve as ringmaster would have few participants, Donald Trump started plotting revenge. Trump and Gingrich are the most visible leaders of the senseless right. They’re the GOP’s Harold and Kumar. They long ago overdosed on their inflated sense of self – and are intoxicated by their contempt...Early in the campaign m...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: October 2011
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Herman Cain is more lyrical than sensible. What is the magnetism of Herman Cain? How has this former pizza company executive with no prior political experience, relatively little campaign funds and a small staff of political neophytes been able to surge into the front ranks of the candidates vying for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination? Like any good salesman, Cain pushes what sells. To a nation frustrated by Congress̵...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: September 2011
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Tuesday, September 27, 2011. A reason why Democrats should turn out in droves for Obama. When President Obama rose to address the mostly black crowd at the Congressional Black Caucus’ awards dinner on Saturday, he knew the damage he wanted to mend with his speech extended far beyond the CBC’s 43 members and their black constituents. And then, invoking the memory of the civil rights struggle that made it possible for him and thousands of other blacks to obtain polit...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: Political Puritanism puts Edwards on trial
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Political Puritanism puts Edwards on trial. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Back in 1925, a trial in Dayton, Tenn., a far-more sanctimonious part of the Bible Belt than this place, transfixed the nation. In that farce of a legal proceeding, John Scopes, a high school instructor, was convicted of teaching his students the theory of human evolution. The onetime golden boy of North Carolina politics cheated on his wife and tried mightily to keep that moral fa...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: Gay Republican group attacks Obama, dithers over Romney
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Monday, May 14, 2012. Gay Republican group attacks Obama, dithers over Romney. To defend their claim to a smidgen of space in the GOP’s ideological pup tent, the Log Cabin Republicans — a gay and lesbian group — is attacking Barack Obama for doing what Mitt Romney won’t: say he supports same-sex marriage. 8220;Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman,” Romney said Saturday during a commencement address at Liberty University, an evangelical sch...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: May 2012
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Connecticut could have fix for nation's ailing schools. Nobody’s calling what Connecticut just did the second “Great Compromise,” but in time it might be remembered as something akin to the agreement that settled the biggest problem this nation’s Founding Fathers faced. In Connecticut, the academic achievement gap between poor kids and children from affluent families is the worst in the nation. And, as in many other parts of the country, ...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: February 2012
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Monday, February 27, 2012. Civil rights leaders should open new front in affirmative action fight. My first reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a challenge to the University of Texas’ admissions policy was to mount a fierce defense of the school’s effort to bandage the gaping wounds in our education system. The standardized tests measure what applicants learned in high school, more than their potential for success in college. They stack the de...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: April 2012
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Palin needs civics lesson. In a not-so-swift swift-boat attack on Barack Obama, Sarah Palin tried to link the Secret Service sex scandal to the president’s ability to manage this nation’s affairs. But she succeeds only in demonstrating how fuzzy her knowledge is of the government she came close to being a heartbeat away from running. The president is required by the 1921 Budget and Accounting Act to submit a budget to Congress — and t...
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace: January 2012
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DeWayne Wickham - Disturbing The Peace. Monday, January 30, 2012. Arizona gov. uses old racist dodge to explain bad treatment of President Obama. I really wanted to ignore the dust up over President Obama’s recent ugly encounter with Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. As troubling as it was to see the picture of her wagging her finger in his face, the shock value of such a showing of disrespect towards the president has by now worn off on me. I don’t think so. Just as Ingram was jailed for “reck...