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    Opinion
    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    December 10, 2010 7:57 pm

    WASHINGTON — Maybe I’m getting carried away because it is the season to believe in miracles, but the tax-cut deal just might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    November 26, 2010 7:54 pm

    WASHINGTON — My family, as it happens, is taking the bus to Grandma’s this Thanksgiving. But our choice of transportation has nothing to do with anxiety about leering security screeners or fear of pat-downs.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    November 19, 2010 7:57 pm

    WASHINGTON — It was, or so I thought, a dandy column idea: an imaginary, missing chapter of George W. Bush’s “Decision Points,” in which the former president would admit to having made the wrong call on taxes.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    November 12, 2010 8:23 pm

    WASHINGTON — The day after his shellacking, the bruised president offered a sober, tripartite analysis of voters’ message. First, he said, voters are fed up with Washington partisanship and special-interest politics. Second, they feel insecure and uncertain, about their economic circumstances above all.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    November 5, 2010 7:48 pm

    The President of the United States:

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    October 29, 2010 8:11 pm

    WASHINGTON — Excuse me, Mary Fallin, did I just hear you say, “Woman up”?

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    October 22, 2010 7:49 pm

    WASHINGTON — In this, the year of the Mama Grizzly, let’s stop stirring the moose chili for a moment to ponder three words — “man up” and “whore” — and what they have to tell us about the muddled state of gender politics.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    October 15, 2010 7:31 pm

    WASHINGTON — I’m not a witch.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    September 24, 2010 6:29 pm

    WASHINGTON — The Wal-Mart Moms were pessimistic, bordering on despondent, about the state of the country. Like, well, moms dealing with bickering children, they were exasperated by Washington lawmakers seemingly incapable of learning to get along.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    September 17, 2010 7:36 pm

    WASHINGTON — It was a jarring moment from an ordinarily smooth pol. Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and 2012 presidential prospect — which helped explain the big turnout at a breakfast Wednesday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor — was asked why so many people seem to believe that President Obama is Muslim.

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    So what’s my incentive?
    So what’s my incentive?
    September 12, 2010 1:00 am

    The cast of characters here at Energy Matters suffer from a clear obsession for saving energy.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    September 3, 2010 7:54 pm

    WASHINGTON — I left the Glenn Beck rally worried that I didn’t have much of a story.

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    Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus
    August 27, 2010 7:35 pm

    WASHINGTON — There are times when I flirt with the notion that the country would be better off with divided government.

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