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A 'Good Guy With a Gun' Is Dead
(The Root) — If Wayne LaPierre’s claim that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” were true, Master Trooper Junius A. Walker of the Virginia State Police would be alive and well today. Instead, the 40-year veteran officer known for his gentle demeanor —…
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Thank God We're Not Stuck With Romneys
(The Root) — Here’s yet another very good reason to rejoice over Barack Obama’s triumph in last year’s presidential election: Mitt and Ann Romney are not our first family. We have thus been spared four years of hyperexposure to the self-absorbed utterances of this shockingly out-of-touch political couple. From now on we can ignore them.…
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Rubio's Big Moment Fizzles
(The Root) — Washington Post commentator Jonathan Capehart summed up the Republican Party’s strange demographic quandary on his blog the other day: It’s a party of “white people” that is about to be led by people of color. Among the Hispanic and Asian-American politicos emerging as potential future standard bearers for the GOP are Ted…
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The GOP Plays 3-Card Monte With Our Vote
(The Root) — If ever there were a reason to be grateful that the Voting Rights Act is still in effect, it’s the shenanigans that have been taking place in Virginia’s Republican-controlled state Senate. What GOP legislators have been trying to do there gives wacko racist reactionaries a bad name. If the most important provision…
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Barack Obama 2.0: Less Cool, More Fire
(The Root) — Now, that wasn’t so hard, was it? Four years into Barack Obama’s presidency, this polyglot nation of ours finally seems to have become accustomed to the reality of a black man in the White House. It’s especially significant that among those most at ease with this astonishing new normal is the president…
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Buckwheat's Road to the Inauguration
(The Root) — An enormous stretch Humvee limousine — with an American flag waving from a rooftop antenna and red, white and blue bunting decorating the hood — was pulled up at the door of the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes. Charlie Chan, Tonto and the Frito Bandito were loading suitcases into the trunk, while…
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Buckwheat Unchained
(The Root) — There was a beehive of activity when I arrived at the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes. Buckwheat and Kingfish, dressed in hard hats, were going over some blueprints while Tonto and Charlie Chan unloaded bricks from a pickup truck and the Frito Bandito adroitly maneuvered a backhoe. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben…
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Allen West: Not Lazy, Just Crazy — Like a Fox
With all due respect to my colleague David Swerdlick — whose thoughtful, precise political commentaries are some of the best things you will read on The Root — he made a serious mistake in his recent piece about Allen West, the ultraconservative black Republican congressman from Florida. Contrary to what Swerdlick wrote, the problem with…
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The Fallacy of Bipartisanship
If, as most legal observers seem to expect, the Supreme Court in June overturns the most important provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it will be a major setback for President Barack Obama at a crucial time in his re-election campaign. No matter how some overly optimistic commentators try to spin it…
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Romney and Gingrich: Kindred Spirits?
Now that the human pretzel otherwise known as Mitt Romney has won the Illinois primary, thereby re-establishing his claim to be the inevitable nominee of the Republican Party, the pressure is on his rivals to drop out so that he can focus his energy on trying to drive President Barack Obama from the White House.…
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