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Hanson: Are You ‘Them!’?

Until the appearance of Barack Obama on the national scene, I knew of “them” only from an old sci-fi movie in which huge ants (“Them!”) ate people. But there are new monsters in America, and I am starting to wonder … Continue reading

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Hanson: What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore

NO MAS, MR. PRESIDENT The State of the Union could have been written by a computer program. All the now familiar Obama furniture was in the room: the mock outrage at “them,” the psychodramatic first-person boasting (as in, “I will oppose..,” “I will … Continue reading

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Hanson: The 2012 Election Circus — The Acts, The Players, The Hype

The Latest Scandals Taxes: What does it matter that Gingrich released one year of his tax records? Any candidate can prep them a year in advance. Were I running for office a year or two down the road, and were … Continue reading

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Hanson: Mr. Obama’s 99% — Are We Poor or Just Unequal or Both or Neither?

The 2012 campaign is heating up and we can see the outlines of an impending us/them class war. But in our strange 21st-century world, lots of crazy things blur the president’s 1%/99% divide. We watch the super-rich struggle for ever … Continue reading

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Hanson: Being There — the Obama Sequel

Rip Van Obama President Obama went into a deep slumber in December. When he woke up this January, he found himself back even in the polls, with neither a press conference nor another overhyped presidential televised address to be heard. … Continue reading

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Hanson: America’s Two-Front War

America Has the Slows Sometime about mid-2009 America began changing psychologically. True, to the naked eye, America retained the old hustle and bustle, but in an insidious fashion it began to think a bit differently. And that change in mentality … Continue reading

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Hanson: Why Not Pay Higher Taxes?

The usual liberal complaint against the conservative opposition to higher income taxes is greed and the better-offs’ self-serving reluctance to pay their “fair share.” But while perhaps true in some instances, I don’t think that is an accurate writ against … Continue reading

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Hanson: Obama Unbound

The paradoxes of presidential politics give him complete freedom abroad Richard Nixon went to Red China with political impunity. Had a Democrat tried that, he would have been branded a Commie appeaser. To this day, liberals cannot conceive that during … Continue reading

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Hanson: Give ’Em Hell, Barry

Recently both First Lady Michelle Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis went to the key swing state of Florida to blast the president’s adversaries. For the first lady, Obama’s opponents were concerned only with “the few at the top” and … Continue reading

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Hanson: Occupy What?

Playing With Fire Occupy Wall Street follows three years of sloppy presidential name-calling — “millionaires and billionaires,” slurs about Las Vegas and the Super Bowl, profit-mad, limb-lopping doctors, introspection that now is not the time for profits and at some point we … Continue reading

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Hanson: Rage On—and on and on…

I’ve been following the Wall Street protests, in New York and elsewhere. I read as well of the Democratic Party’s sorta interest in turning the anger of a few into a left-wing Tea-Party-like movement of many. Against that background, I’ve … Continue reading

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