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Chan Lowe

• Chan Lowe: The Hagel confirmation battle

  It’s come to this. The Republicans are so eager to score points against Barack Obama that they’re willing to eat one of their own, Chuck Hagel, because he had the audacity to allow himself to be tapped on the shoulder by the Pretender’s sword. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Gun rights

  I’ve been trying to figure out exactly why NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s argument seems so sensible on the surface, yet, upon further examination, sounds so absurd. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Broward bus driver a menace

  We have my enterprising colleague Brittany Wallman, our Broward County reporter, to thank for this unsurprising story about how our local elected officials have abrogated their most basic responsibility, which is to protect public safety. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The virus of hyper-partisanship

  It’s always touching to see video news snippets of freshman members of Congress being sworn in. They still have that dewy-faced sense of awe as they stand in the great chamber, surrounded by their families, to take the sacred oath of office. You can see it in their eyes. “l [...]
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• Chan Lowe: A name change we don't need

  While drawing this, I was thinking about how much it would cost the taxpayers of Broward County to effect a cosmetic name change for their bustling metropolitan political entity. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: House stabs Northeast in the back over Sandy aid

  Remember those inspiring words of Barack Obama’s during the 2008 campaign? Or was it the 2012 campaign? It doesn’t matter. Something like, “There is no black America, no white America, no red America, no blue America—just the United States of America.” [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Rick Scott's 7-7-7 Plan

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• Chan Lowe: The fiscal cliff vote

  We know that Congress is a bunch of weasels. That’s not a value judgment, just a statement of fact. The curse and the genius of our system is that each member of that body happens to be a kept weasel. We can’t vote out somebody else’s weasel, because he’s only [...]
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• Chan Lowe: A rocky Broward sheriff transition

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