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GOP Image Toxic Among Hispanic Voters
On the eve of President Obama’s push for immigration reform in his State of the Union address, the Hill columnist Juan Williams takes a look at the current state of play inside the GOP on the Hispanic vote. There’s a hidden hand driving the reform proposals that will arrive before the Senate Judiciary Committee the…
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Calif. Leading the Way to a More Functional Congress
Writing at the Hill, Juan Williams looks at the lessons that the waning 112th Congress — whose dysfunction led to a downgrade of the nation’s credit rating and the prospect of a “fiscal cliff” — might learn from the shake-up in the Golden State’s election process. The Gallup approval rating for this Congress, at one…
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Republicans Facing Longer Odds for Senate Control
Several races should make the GOP nervous as the election approaches, Juan Williams writes at the Hill. As the old Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige once told reporters after his team faded in September and lost the pennant: “The future isn’t what it used to be.” What’s true in baseball is also true in politics.…
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The US Must Be Cautious About Syria
In his column at the Hill, Juan Williams weighs in on calls by some elected officials for the U.S. to intervene in Syria, where the country’s brutal dictator has committed egregious human rights violations, much as Saddam Hussein did in Iraq. But such a move would be tragic, given that troops left Iraq only three…
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Education: The Great Civil Rights Challenge
In his column at the Hill, Juan Williams sounds the alarm about the declining American education system, which is in crisis. He says that historians are already describing the decline as a threat to the nation’s economy and military. Thirty percent of America’s high school students drop out and never graduate. Fewer than half of…
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The Poverty of Children Demands Attention
In his column at the Hill, Juan Williams says that when the Census Bureau factored in health care and other child-rearing costs, it calculated that more than half of all children in America live near poverty. Yet even in the face of those stunning statistics, the issue is still not part of the political discourse…
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GOP Can't Deny Past Support of Individual Mandate
In his column at the Hill, Juan Williams writes that leading Republican presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney supported the idea of requiring people to buy health insurance long before President Barack Obama. Now that it’s unpopular, they cannot deny their past support of the individual mandate in order to win the nomination, he…
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Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist?
It has taken 20 years for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to strip away the political filth that nearly buried him. In 1991 his left-wing critics created a public image of Thomas as a monster. They trashed him as an Uncle Tom, Anita Hill’s harasser and the vote on the Supreme Court that would end…
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