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Is Obama a Socialist?
That’s the question posed in this Christian Science Monitor article, which is worth reading. To support the argument that he’s not a socialist, the reporter asks the Socialist Party what…
Dick Morris
American political commentator and consultant
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Medicaid, Obamacare and North Carolina, pt 2
Dick Morris estimated what Medicaid expansion would cost North Carolina taxpayers. His guess is wrong in two ways. First, state spending would increase about half that amount (description below). More…
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“And where is the constitutional basis for requiring everyone to buy insurance?”
From Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, writing for The Hill, comes this key question: And where is the constitutional basis for requiring everyone to buy insurance? It is OK for…
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Ask Heath Shuler if Virginia means anything
Usually in life, when you are hired for a specialty, you’re pretty good at it. Given that, how does Ruth Marcus keep her job at The Washington Post as a…
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The role of attack ads
While John McCain comes under fire for negative ads targeting Barack Obama, Newsweek?s Sharon Begley reminds us that negative ads have been part of American presidential politics since the first…
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Morris argues for more information
Those who carp about the use of negative campaigning might benefit from reading this U.S. News commentary from Dick Morris, who has offered John Locke Foundation audiences his own no-holds-barred…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
State lawmakers have started haggling over the items in Gov. Mike Easley?s proposed 2008-2009 budget. Joe Coletti and State House Minority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, will offer their responses to…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolina is considering policies linked to climate change that could cost the state 33,000 jobs and reduce Gross State Product by $4.5 billion by 2011. That?s the estimate of…
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The Democratic presidential nomination endgame
The latest TIME magazine spells out three possible scenarios for resolving the race to determine the Democratic presidential nominee. Scenario No. 2 tracks closely with the opinions Dick Morris offered…
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It’s nice to be nice, but….
The Meck Deck’s Jeff Taylor summarizes Rush Limbaugh’s first-hour analysis of the Wright-Obama-Moore Perdue ad. I heard the show, too (yeah, we’re all a bunch of ditto-robots at JLF —…
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‘The Architect’ ponders the N.C. electoral battle
Earlier this week, political strategist Dick Morris offered his assessment of the presidential political fight in North Carolina. Now we see in Newsweek that former Bush strategist Karl Rove has…
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Dick Morris on the Democratic presidential battle
If your eyes are glued to your television set or computer screen tonight as you follow analysis of the Pennsylvania primary results, you might be interested in Dick Morris’ take…