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Kinsley: Rick Santorum -- odd man in?
It turns out the little voice that tells some of the most unlikely people, 'You know, you could be elected president,' was telling him the truth.

Maybe anyone who voluntarily runs the gantlet we call our presidential election process must be mentally imbalanced in some respect, but this year's crop of Republican candidates has been especially odd. Of the four who remain viable, only Mitt Romney can pass as normal — and he has that eerie, Stepford-wife quality of being so normal he's weird.
Healthcare reform's missing link -- nurse practitioners
Millions more Americans soon may be searching for primary care providers. Nurse practitioners can do the job, and save taxpayer funds.

Within the next two years, if federal healthcare reforms proceed as expected, roughly 30 million of the estimated 50 million uninsured people in the United States — 6.9 million in California — will be trying to find new healthcare providers.
Obama's budget blind spot
The stimulus act taught us that the country would be better served if the president did less tinkering in his budget and more leading.

It has been three years since President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was enacted. The stimulus was one of the administration's first attempts to micromanage the economy with short-run policies instead of offering a long-run strategy for restructuring government. The president's proposed 2013 budget is the latest. If we learned anything from the stimulus, it's that the country would be better served if the president did less tinkering in his budget — like handing out tax breaks for manufacturing and "clean" energy — and more leading.

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Gingrich and gas prices
Assailing President Obama for high gasoline prices, Newt Gingrich says that when he's president, they'll come down to $2 a gallon. That's because we will "dramaticaly expand our capacity to produce energy." Sounds plausible -- but we've already tried it, and it hasn't worked.
Mayor's home turf is fair game for protesters
Demonstration outside Emanuel house was unusual, yet respected privacy boundary

My pal Eric asked me Tuesday what I thought about the people who rallied outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home Monday evening to protest the proposal to close seven Chicago public schools and radically overhaul 10 more.
Two threats, no waiting
A pivotal moment for the U.S. in its nuclear wrangling with Iran and North Korea

The global threats arrayed against the United States and its allies have created "a period of persistent conflict, with its toll on equipment, people and national will. ... No one should harbor the illusion that the developed world can win this conflict in the near future."

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Keeping the Poorest in Housing
Proposals in the White House budget and in Congress would raise rents for the nation’s poorest residents. The government needs to make sure protections are available for the most vulnerable people.
The Supreme Court and Citizens United, Take 2
A Montana elections case gives the chance for a proper review of a devastating precedent on unlimited spending by third parties in elections.
A Real ‘Doc Fix’
Congress needs to devise a real fix that would be fair to doctors and make a serious effort to slow the rise of Medicare spending.

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The missing contraception question

Can we please get one moment of contraceptive clarity Wednesday night in what may be the final big GOP debate of the year? All it will take is a simple line of questioning pressed by moderator John King.
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Rick Santorum cries Nazi

Rick Santorum sees Nazis everywhere: in the Middle East, in doctor’s offices and medical labs, in the Democratic Party, and now in the White House.

The Republican presidential candidate told a group of supporters Sunday night that this year’s election was like the time between 1940 and 1941 when Americans didn’t act against Adolf Hitler because they thought he was “a nice guy” and not “near as bad as what we think.”
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The trials of Saint Santorum

You’ve likely heard by now that the presidential election may pivot on the unlikely “controversy” of birth control.

This is the latest trope to evolve from a campaign that is already two years too long. A conspiracy-minded person might imagine that this faux battle over reproductive rights was designed to distract from other more pressing concerns and to demonize — or would that be angelize? — Republicans who, we’re also told, want to turn back the clock to the 1950s.
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