A.J. DiCintio
Fully Understanding the Bill Ayres "Distraction"
MichNews.com-- It is true that most voters vote their pocketbooks. But that doesn’t mean they would elect Mao Zedong president — even if they believed he could guarantee robust job growth, low inflation, and a roaring stock market.
Oct 22, 2008, 17:12
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A.J. DiCintio
Are Americans Really Open to Obama's New Ideas?
MichNews.com-- Most of us believe that the personality of the typical Minnesotan differs from that of the typical New Yorker. But has anyone demonstrated the truth of that belief with a study based upon information given in 600,000 questionnaires, controlled for “variables such as race, income and education levels”?
Oct 8, 2008, 20:52
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A.J. DiCintio
When Conservatives Behave like Liberals
MichNews.com-- Of the current financial debacle, we can be sure there’s plenty of blame to go around both sides of the political aisle. To the chagrin of main street conservatives, however, a whole lot of the blame can be laid at the feet of renegade conservatives who sit in the highest seats of government — renegades, because they behaved like liberals.
Sep 25, 2008, 12:28
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A.J. DiCintio
Prometheus, McCain, Palin, and Billboards
MichNews.com-- If the title you just read sounds a little crazy, McCain campaign staff, it’s understandable. However, as you will see, it quickly makes sense as this piece pursues its goal of helping the man for whom you’re sacrificing so much that at times you’d rather suffer the lesser pain of being chained to a rock to have your ever-regenerating liver eaten daily by a ravenous vulture.
Sep 3, 2008, 08:11
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A.J. DiCintio
What's in a Face?
MichNews.com-- Juliet asked, “What’s in a name?” But what if she had asked, “What’s in a face?”
Aug 28, 2008, 08:47
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A.J. DiCintio
Georgia on My Mind
MichNews.com-- When it comes to evaluating Barack Obama’s fitness to be president, a lot more than Georgia needs to be on our minds. But we are obligated to give the situation in Georgia plenty of serious thought because how the candidates have reacted to it provides a very important insight into their attitudes regarding government’s most important function: keeping the nation safe through maintaining a strong military and implementing a realistic foreign policy.
Aug 21, 2008, 09:07
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A.J. DiCintio
Categorizing Barack Obama
MichNews.com-- If we have learned anything about Barack Obama thus far, we have learned he absolutely refuses to tell us who he is except to say he’s a “progressive” kind of guy. The problem, of course, with this lack of courage and honesty is that when a candidate aspires to the presidency, the American people want to know exactly who the person is.
Aug 15, 2008, 09:51
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A.J. DiCintio
Tongued-Tied about Bosnia
MichNews.com-- There is nothing that better reflects the cowardly, obsequious performance “I tell you only what you want to hear” Barack Obama gave during his European tour last week than the fact that right smack in the middle of the continent, he never mentioned the real lessons of Bosnia.
Aug 5, 2008, 08:17
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A.J. DiCintio
Energy: The Unconscionable Liberal Gamble
MichNews.com-- Just as it is true that “Man shall not live by bread alone,” it is equally true humanity cannot live upon words alone. Yet dangerous words that represent nothing more than figments of the liberal imagination (think of “free love”) are the stock-in-trade of supposed liberal intellects.
Jul 25, 2008, 12:05
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A.J. DiCintio
Tom the Single Issue Voter
MichNews.com-- Yes, it’s tough being a conservative voter these days. But the truth is it’s always been.
Jul 21, 2008, 09:05
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A.J. DiCintio
John Morphing into Johnny
MichNews.com-- He’s harbored the dream of being president for quite a long time. He’s been through this presidential business once before. He’s been blessed with decades of access to the nation’s best, brightest, most accomplished minds. He sewed up his nomination months before his rival. Yet, to this point in the campaign, the man who hopes to loom extra large in the public consciousness has steadily diminished from John McCain to a Johnny evocative of a candidate in the last presidential election.
Jul 12, 2008, 15:10
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A.J. DiCintio
Gun Rights Hanging by a Thin Thread
MichNews.com-- A few minutes after ten on the morning of June 26, the Supreme Court gave every conservative a reason to get excited, charged up, fired up, yes, even, if need be, a little wild-eyed about the coming election.
Jul 3, 2008, 21:53
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A.J. DiCintio
The Feminist as Political Hack
MichNews.com-- Despite the real problems commanding our attention these days, we are forced to endure the rants of the nation’s self-anointed feminists who complain bitterly about the sexism that sank their champion’s bid for the presidency.
Jun 28, 2008, 13:39
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A.J. DiCintio
Gulliverian to the Core
MichNews.com-- After Gulliver completed the last of his travels, his delusions about being perfectly rational drove him to a misanthropy so deeply psychotic that he was repulsed by every other human, even his wife and children. Thus, he spent the remaining years of his life amid the stench of the stable communing with horses, the only equals he could find.
Jun 17, 2008, 18:52
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A.J. DiCintio
The Hope Diet: Part Two
MichNews.com-- “He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” Ben Franklin
Jun 12, 2008, 15:04
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A.J. DiCintio
The Hope Diet
MichNews.com-- Thinking seriously about buying into the Hope Diet that’s all the rage among Democrats these days? Planning to send in your check November 4? Can’t wait to begin your new way of life next January 20?
Jun 5, 2008, 15:26
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A.J. DiCintio
Hillary's Septic Soul
MichNews.com-- After Hillary spurned beautiful, vigorous, life-affirming June in favor of a disgustingly serendipitous month in which the murder of her opponent allows her to become the Democratic nominee, Michael Goodwin of New York’s Daily News observed, “We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul.” Then, he added: “We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton’s thinking could be so cold.”
Jun 1, 2008, 19:51
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A.J. DiCintio
The Past Is Not Dead
MichNews.com-- When we get to feeling like Big Brown (who certainly has a right to feel his oats), we Americans often plume ourselves about “how far we’ve come” and how “advanced” we are compared to America of the past.
May 24, 2008, 22:24
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A.J. DiCintio
Brooks' Conservative Revival Revisited
MichNews.com-- In “The Conservative Revival” (NY Times) David Brooks observes that having got “their losing in early” (before American voters relegated Republicans to the minority), British Conservatives “rethought modern conservatism” while “their American counterparts were clinging to power."
May 15, 2008, 16:20
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A.J. DiCintio
Vetoing Hillary
MichNews.com-- If someone had asked you last fall to speculate about how the Clintons would react if by some miracle Barack Obama stole Hillary’s mantle of inevitability regarding the Democratic nomination, how would you have responded?
Apr 28, 2008, 22:10
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