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• Chan Lowe: Private sector disaster relief?

  There are some things the private sector is good at, and helping vast numbers of people recover from a disaster is not one of them.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: "Souls to the Polls" Sunday

  Of all the petty, narrow-minded voter-suppression stunts pulled by the Florida Legislature, obliterating "Souls to the Polls Sunday" is the most glaringly obvious and the most hurtful.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: Hurricane Sandy

  Human nature being what it is, one of our greatest motivators is self-interest. It’s probably a corollary of the survival instinct, and hard-wired into us in order to perpetuate the species. One of the fine arts of politics is to harness the self-interest of supporters and feed it back to [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Early voting

  We are hearing horror stories, or rather, horror prognostications, about how long voting lines are going to be here in Florida, what with all the Constitutional questions littering the ballot.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: The abortion issue

  Things started going downhill for this country back in the 1970s when politicians discovered there was money to be made by embracing the pro-life movement. Abortion has become so much a part of our national discourse over the past few decades that it’s hard to remember the days when the [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The Electoral College

  Recently I read an account of how the Electoral College came to be—that it was one of those compromises everyone at the Constitutional Convention found distasteful, but that was devised as a necessary evil to assuage the fears of small-state loudmouths who were afraid of being railroaded in the presidential [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Climate change

  The tree-huggers who are disappointed that their favorite crucial issue wasn’t discussed in any of the four debates evidently don’t understand what campaigns are about.

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: The final presidential debate

   

  
  

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• Chan Lowe: The Boy Scouts scandal

  We’ve certainly heard this tune before. A valued, respected institution turns out to have spreading rot at its core. The sin of commission, in this case widespread sexual abuse of Boy Scouts by role models they trusted, was compounded with the sin of cover-up. In some cases, the offenders were [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Romney and the binder

   

  
  

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