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Questions for the Republican candidates

Questions for the Republican candidates

Robert N. Driscoll

On Jan. 14 and 28, and Feb. 6, the Republicans will have the final three debates prior to the New Hampshire primary. Although Fox Business, Fox News, and ABC will host the debates, in my fantasy world, these are some of the questions I'd like to see asked of the remaining Republican candidates. I hope the debate moderators feel free to crib a few of these.

To Chris Christie: President Obama has been roundly criticized by Republicans for treating Islamic terrorism as a "law enforcement" problem rather than as an existential threat. You have touted your experience as a US attorney as your primary qualification for being Commander-in-Chief and handling the war on terror. Does this mean, as a former law enforcement official, you agree that terrorism is primarily a law enforcement problem?

The sexual politics that hound Hill and Bill
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The sexual politics that hound Hill and Bill

Suzanne Fields

"Sexual politics" once described the power relationship between a man and a woman, but that has changed, like everything else, with the changing times. In the age of the Internet, with its blessings and curses delivered at warp speed, presidential politics expands (some say narrows) to include what goes on between a man and a woman.

The Garden of Eden, where Satan once enticed Eve to nibble the forbidden apple (which was not an apple at all, except in the secular telling), has become overgrown with weeds and roses thick with thorns. That first couple's political descendants worry very little about what they do in God's eye, only how it plays out in the public eye. Moliere's notorious hypocrite, Tartuffe, understood in the 17th century that the greatest crime is exposure: "It is public scandal that constitutes offense, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all."

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