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Kyle Wingfield is the AJC's conservative columnist. He joined the AJC in 2009 after writing for the Wall Street Journal, based in Brussels, and the Associated Press, based in Atlanta and Montgomery, Ala. He is a native of Dalton and a graduate of the University of Georgia.
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Common Core confusion
Twice lately I’ve listened to people on each side of the Common Core debate plead their case. I’m sorry to report I’m no more certain of what Georgia should do than I was before. It’s hard to believe a checklist of student knowledge and skills for math and English/language arts ...
What the Capitol car chase did have in common with recent shootings
When news broke that shots were fired outside the U.S. Capitol, a lot of people jumped to the usual conclusions and made the usual comments about the usual answers. It's beginning to look like this situation was far from ordinary (via the Associated Press): "The mother of a Connecticut woman ...
The day Obama became a Republican
While mocking congressional Republicans about the government shutdown during a speech at an asphalt plant in Maryland today, it seems President Obama inadvertently revealed his plans to reform labor laws to outlaw strikes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEHKBqlpYwM Obama: "Everybody here just does their job, right? If you're working here, and in the middle ...
Poll: GOP, Dems equally obligated to compromise, end shutdown
It is both silly and inescapable to watch the opinion polls regarding the federal government shutdown. Silly, because we all know that's not how lawmakers ought to decide when and how to compromise -- and inescapable, because we all know that's what they're going to do. So it is quite ...
The bigger government gets, the more of these we’ll see
On the second day of the latest federal-government shutdown, the online Urban Dictionary added a new entry named after President Barack “Barry” Obama:“barrycade: 1. A barrier (usually temporary) that exists for no reason. 2. A barrier erected for political reasons.”Here’s how the website — not owned or funded by the ...
GOP can count on the Obama administration to overplay its hand
If House Republicans sometimes seem remarkably willing, time after time, to step into apparent P.R. disasters, perhaps it's because they can always count on the Obama administration to bail them out by overplaying its own hand. In March, remember, the administration's decision to cancel White House tours as part of ...
Federal government shuts down ... for the 18th time in 37 years
1976 1977 (three times) 1978 1979 1981 1982 (twice) 1983 1984 (twice) 1986 1987 1990 1995 1996 And now 2013 joins the list of years since the mid-1970s in which the federal government has been shut down due to disagreements over funding issues. You probably remember the two shutdowns of ...
Ideas for fiscal compromise do exist, even if incentives don't
It's "Shutdown" Showdown Day in Washington, and we'll be treated to all manner of explanations from each side as to why the other guys are the only ones standing in the way of fiscal sanity and world peace. After all, when one side (GOP) insists on negotiating and the other ...
Let’s go team! Fight, fight, fight!
Adults say the darndest things.They say things like Washington has “too much power” — as 60 percent of respondents, including almost two in five Democrats, told Gallup in a poll earlier this month. That 60 percent figure was the highest mark since Gallup began asking the question in 2002, when ...
Those rascally Republicans, doing what Congress has done for 40 years
When President Obama uses words like "never" and "unprecedented," it's often a signal that what he should have said was "routinely" or, er, "precedented." The president this week went with "never" as his hyperbolic-and-false word choice to describe Republican insistence that an increase in the debt ceiling come with some ...
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