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In Romney, Mormons see path to Christian mainstream

During the 2008 presidential primary race, evangelical stalwart Mike Huckabee darkly hinted that Mitt Romney might believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. This time around, Romney is the featured graduation speaker at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. What changed?
Tough on crime, tough on justice – but this is too tough

So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation. And a wave swept this country in the Reagan years, a wave ridden by pundits and politicians seeking power, a wave that said, no mercy, no more. From now on, judges would be severely limited in the sentences they could hand down for certain crimes, required to impose certain punishments whether or not they thought those punishments fit the circumstances at hand. From now on, there was a new mantra in American justice. From now on, we would be “tough on crime.”
No better way to spend a summer than wrestling with the debt

John Boehner wants to restart the debt-limit debate. This is big news. Remember all the fun we had last time: threats, brinkmanship, wobbling financial markets, torpedoed Grand Bargain? You can certainly understand why he misses it.
Even the mighty can fall (and pretty hard) on Wall Street

WASHINGTON – Jamie Dimon calls it “a doozy.”
Forget those issues we face – it’s likability that counts

WASHINGTON – A presidential race recently focused on high school has come to resemble a popularity contest of the same vintage.
JPMorgan, its CEO prove again that banks can’t be trusted

What to do with Jamie Dimon? The CEO and chair of JPMorgan Chase has tried so hard in the past several years to seem the “good banker.”
North Carolina sees a step backward from progress

So apparently, Barack Obama is finally done evolving.
Everything in France, including politics, is wrapped up in l’amour

PARIS – In the last election, Nicolas Sarkozy lost his wife. In this one, he lost France.
Rubio shows the kinder side of his personality

Sen. Marco Rubio, the 40-year-old rising star of the Republican Party and among top contenders to be Gov. Mitt Romney’s running mate, is trying to rebrand himself from a right-wing Cuban-American politician to a center-right Hispanic one.
Punishment might be a response to crime, but it’s not a solution

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