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• Chan Lowe: The iPhone 5

  Back in the 1950’s, when I was a kid, my family spent a lot of time in Las Vegas. The place was different than it is now by several factors of ten.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: The Libya crisis

  Back in the heyday of the Dave Brubeck Quartet (we’re talking roughly 50 years ago), one of the members of the ensemble was a saxophonist named Paul Desmond. He was a professorial fellow who wore horn-rimmed glasses, a jacket and a tie.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: Romney and Obamacare

  All candidates do this. They make wild promises, vows, pledges and assurances that, on their first day in office, they will do thus-and-such as their number-one priority. They’ll get rid of something, they’ll restore something, or they’ll put something else in place.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: Obama bear hug photo

  Photos like these can be dangerous. This one went viral, and so many people have shared it online that I feel safe using it as a vehicle for commentary. That’s not the dangerous part. It’s that there are a lot of low-information voters who will look at that photo and [...]
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• Chan Lowe: August unemployment figures

  Barack Obama has admitted that two nightmare scenarios haunt him about a Romney victory. The first is what would happen to the Supreme Court for the next several decades if some of the older liberal justices were to retire during a Romney administration. He assumes that Romney—who knows little (and [...]
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• Bill Clinton's speech

  I once talked to a woman who had been to a White House state dinner during the Clinton administration. “He made you feel like you were the only woman in the room,” she said.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: Mitt Romney's greatest asset

  If you are in the process of watching the second of two political conventions in as many weeks, then first you have my commiserations, because it means that like me, you are a hopeless loser with no nightlife to speak of.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

  “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” is a thorny question, because it can only be answered accurately in the conditional tense. The proper answer is, “A lot better off than you would have been had John McCain been elected,” but voters are not in possession of [...]
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