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Edward Morrissey

In defense of CNN

The most trusted name in news is getting pilloried for publishing details from the late Ambassador Stevens' journal. Critics ought to leave CNN alone

 

Welcome to the campaign, foreign policy

We all assumed the election would hinge on the economy. Then global events intervened

 

The conventional wisdom on conventions is just plain wrong

These week-long political infomercials reliably fail to sway undecided voters or offer any tangible plans for the future of American governance

 

President Obama is running scared from the Reagan Metric

"Are you better off than you were four years ago?" seems like a simple question. But for Team Obama, it's clearly terrifying

 

It's time to cancel all national political conventions

Even before Isaac rained on the parade, the GOP convention was sure to garner only modest interest and make little impact. Why do party leaders even bother?

 

Gaffe survival 101

Todd Akin's outrageous claim has the GOP calling for his head. But Biden gets away with egregious miscues all the time. An examination of how the VP does it

 

Mitt Romney picks a fighter

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee chose Paul Ryan as his running mate because the Wisconsin congressman has fought Obama in the past and won

 

Rahm Emanuel, Chick-fil-A, and the easy slide into fascism

Several big-city mayors have tried to bully an honest business owner for holding firm to his Christian faith. They ought to be ashamed of themselves

 

Gun control has failed this country

In the wake of the Aurora theater shootings, it's best to stick to the facts in the debate about gun control: Namely that restricting guns doesn't stop violence

 

Why President Obama's tax attack on Mitt Romney will backfire

The Obama campaign is blasting the Republican's tax-reform proposal, even though the president's own advisors have long backed the very same policy

 

Obama's plan isn't a tax cut at all

The president merely proposes extending the status quo for some Americans — and only for 12 months, at that

 

Can Obama possibly win a three-front war on ObamaCare?

Sure, the White House won a big legal victory. But now they face fierce political foes in the Tea Party, GOP governors, and the Catholic Church

 

The stakes of the Supreme Court's monumental ObamaCare decision

Come Thursday, we'll finally get a verdict on the constitutionality of the president's health-care overhaul. And if Obama loses, he's going to lose big

 

The ephemeral boost of Obama's immigration power play

Yes, the president won a few news cycles by muscling through a new deportation rule. Too bad it's still June

 

Obama is on the wrong side of the union debate

The president wants to send more federal money to states that just funnel it into bloated pension obligations. And Americans are tired of it

 

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