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Fixing health care requires repeal of Obamacare

By Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton Two weeks into 2017, it is clearer than ever that fixing our nation’s health care system will require a full repeal of President Obama’s...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

True verdict on Obama administration years away

WASHINGTON – It is far too early to render final judgment on the Obama presidency. All the chatter about his “legacy” overlooks two obvious realities. The significance of Obama w...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

For Trump, honeymoon over before it even begins

WASHINGTON — The shortest honeymoon on record is officially over. Normally, newly elected presidents enjoy a wave of goodwill that allows them to fly high at least through their ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Given keys to Congress, GOP spins out on first lap

WASHINGTON – Doesn’t anybody here know how to work this thing? For 10 years, Republicans have waited for their chance to govern, and finally the voters handed them the car keys: u...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Trying to understand the new world order in 2017

WASHINGTON – One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and military po...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Putin’s gift to America

WASHINGTON – It may be wishful thinking, but it’s just possible that Vladimir Putin has done us a great favor. He has alerted us to the true threat of cyberwarfare in a way that — again, jus...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Fall of Aleppo showcases America’s declining role

WASHINGTON — The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Great Depression that did not ever happen

WASHINGTON – There is no mystery about Barack Obama’s greatest presidential achievement: He stopped the Great Recession from becoming a second Great Depression. True, he had plen...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies

WASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Not waste, but the Pentagon vs. the welfare state

WASHINGTON – Any reporter who’s written about the federal budget knows that there’s a surefire solution to every problem. It’s called “fraud, waste and abuse.” You want to end budget deficit...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Growing numbers of men jobless by choice or pain

WASHINGTON – The work ethic is such a central part of the American character that it’s hard to imagine it fading. But that’s what seems to be happening in one important part of the labor for...

DATE: Nov 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Odd couple, but Trump should pick Mitt for State

Trump is Trump, meaning he moves easily from one position to another. And politics are politics. Things are said. Things are unsaid. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s fl...

DATE: Nov 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Fixing health care requires repeal of Obamacare

True verdict on Obama administration years away

For Trump, honeymoon over before it even begins

Given keys to Congress, GOP spins out on first lap

Trying to understand the new world order in 2017

Putin’s gift to America

Fall of Aleppo showcases America’s declining role

The Great Depression that did not ever happen

The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies

Not waste, but the Pentagon vs. the welfare state

Growing numbers of men jobless by choice or pain

Odd couple, but Trump should pick Mitt for State

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