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Morton M. Kondracke
| May 21, 2013, 3:01 p.m.
Michael Bloomberg, Howard Schultz and Peter Ackerman — meet Charlie Wheelan.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| May 16, 2013, 11:21 a.m.
Unless the Benghazi scandal consumes her, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is virtually a shoo-in for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination if she wants it. And she’s outpolling her GOP rivals.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| May 15, 2013, 10:23 a.m.
As I alluded to in the previous post on the Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz., a number of digital technology programs today give kids and teachers a leg up on learning. They can provide instant feedback on what pupils are learning, customize content to a student’s achievement level, teach English as a second language in novel ways and help kids keep up with assignments.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| May 8, 2013, 7 p.m.
In the 30th anniversary year of the landmark report on U.S. education failure, “A Nation at Risk,” I really think there’s hope — at long, long last — for a turnaround.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| April 29, 2013, 11:47 a.m.
The best news coming out of Congress recently — other than bipartisan work on immigration — is bipartisan work on a tax policy overhaul.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| April 22, 2013, 11:35 a.m.
The incredibly swift and effective handling of the Boston Marathon bombing case this week by federal, state and local officials should sustain (or restore) national confidence in those institutions — and embarrass Congress.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| April 15, 2013, 11:32 a.m.
ST. GEORGE, Utah — This state is about as conservative as there is, yet it has some of the most sensible immigration laws in the country. Its record is a challenge to Republicans in Congress — and to the Obama administration, which isn’t letting the state go as far as it would like.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| April 5, 2013, 11:41 a.m.
There’s nothing I’d like more than to see comprehensive immigration reform pass this year, but those who want to repair this broken system ought to quietly concoct a less-than-comprehensive Plan B just in case.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 29, 2013, 6:23 p.m.
The National Rifle Association is paranoid about universal background checks leading to national registries leading to confiscation of guns. The NRA threatens politicians who favor limits on the size of magazines. And CEO Wayne LaPierre was downright hysterical on “Meet the Press” last week, attacking New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s $12 million gun control campaign — as if the NRA doesn’t use its clout to block gun control.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 29, 2013, 12:19 p.m.
Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association are obnoxious, paranoid and intimidationist — but he and they are not always wrong. Some of their ideas should be adopted by advocates of “gun safety,” including Congress.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 26, 2013, 1:32 p.m.
In part 1 of this post, I argued that the biggest question facing the GOP is what should it be for? Republicans have been relegated to the role of Scrooge while Democrats have been playing Santa when it comes to taxes and economic growth.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 25, 2013, 12:53 p.m.
Among the Republican Party’s many problems, perhaps the biggest is: what should it be for? Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush correctly pegged the issue in his Conservative Political Action Conference speech — “stop being the anti-everything party” — but didn’t have much to offer as an alternative.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 19, 2013, 11:55 a.m.
Republican politicians have three concerns about gay marriage besides safeguarding the institution of marriage. One is that the religious right, a powerful constituency, is dead against it.
By
Morton M. Kondracke
| March 18, 2013, 12:04 p.m.
Hooray for Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, for changing his mind about same-sex marriage. Now it’s time some other major Republican leaders to do so for reasons other than that they have children who are gay, like Portman and Dick Cheney, or that they,like former Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona, are gay themselves.
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 15, 2013, 10:37 a.m.
Likely as not, you could get rich collecting a dollar each time a speaker at this year’s (or any year’s) Conservative Political Action Conference invokes the name of Ronald Reagan.
By
Morton M. Kondracke
| March 10, 2013, 10:31 p.m.
Longtime readers of my CQ Roll Call column, Pennsylvania Avenue, probably won’t be surprised by what follows — a lament about the state of politics in America from my moderate/centrist perspective. It’s adapted from a speech I gave in January at the Hillsboro Club in Florida. Welcome to the blog!
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Morton M. Kondracke
| March 10, 2013, 10:30 p.m.
It’s four years, two months and millions of rancorous words too late, but could President Barack Obama’s outreach to congressional Republicans be the start of something big?
By
Morton M. Kondracke
| Dec. 12, 2012, 6:52 p.m.
President Barack Obama is on his way to bludgeoning Republicans into agreeing to raise taxes. The big question is: Can he reach a deal on entitlement spending?
By
Morton M. Kondracke
| Nov. 21, 2012, 5:29 p.m.
If Republicans hope to save their party from long-term minority status, they should do what I’ve been doing for the past two years: study the career of Jack Kemp.
