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Obama's healthcare a time bomb

Paul Sheehan As I wrote this column, and as you read it, the United States had reached the climax of the most contentious and sweeping attempt at social engineering in more than 40 years, a process that has...

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Shock loss in Massachusetts ends Obama euphoria

Paul Sheehan At 9.20 pm today, in Massachusetts, or 1.20 pm on the Australian east coast, the era of Obamamania abruptly ended.

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Fiscal civil war needs Honest Al

Paul Sheehan If Lincoln does not win film's triple crown at the Oscars, I will be surprised.

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Meanwhile, life goes on but mind the speed bumps

Paul Sheehan A law firm sent the following advice to its clients in December, which, in keeping with so much advice from government bureaucracies, local councils and human resource departments, was unnecessary,...

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In assassination's aftermath, a real political master emerged

Paul Sheehan If this is the time when people sit back and relax and, hopefully, even read, spare a thought for the greatest biography ever written, a commanding work of research, insight and narrative power which...

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Muddying waters on way to polls

Paul Sheehan It was no doubt keenly noted in the Prime Minister's office that even though Barack Obama enjoyed a decisive 55 per cent to 45 per cent advantage over Mitt Romney in this year's presidential...

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Game on as Romney picks Fox News champion for his sidekick

Paul Sheehan I admire a man who makes his own sausages, especially if he has hunted the meat himself and used a bow and arrow. No time to be squeamish.

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Green by name, flaky by nature

Paul Sheehan Adam Bandt's first major policy initiative as the only member of the Greens in the House of Representatives was always going to be loaded with symbolism.

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Lives lost currying US favour

Paul Sheehan Thomas Dale, 21, killed by a bomb. Grant Kirby, 35, killed by a bomb. Jason Brown, 29, shot dead. Tim Aplin, 38, killed in a helicopter crash. Ben Chuck, 27, killed in a helicopter crash.

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Plugging away pays off for marathon man

Paul Sheehan 'We were very, very disciplined, there were no outbreaks, we had cohesion, we were contained, everybody stayed on message,'' said Senator Connie Fierravanti-Wells, who won re-election as the head of...

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Facts conveniently brushed over by the global warming fanatics

Paul Sheehan Here are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day.

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Runaway Republican truck wreaks havoc

Paul Sheehan ''You can't stop the truck! You can't stop the truck!'' The chant went up in Boston as several thousand people gathered to celebrate the end of Barack Obama's political supremacy.

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Those waging war on society shouldn't have access to its law

Paul Sheehan Wootton Bassett is a model English town. The name is redolent with connotations of village life, farmers' markets, tiled roofs and doughty values.

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