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68To America: Don't Trip on NAFTA Vote
by William F. Torpey
Over the years trade agreements have seldom caused the kind of uproar seen over the North American Free Trade Agreement. Few administrations have had anything like the battle that President Clinton faced in 1993. It was uphill all the way to get NAFTA approved. published 6 months ago
63Vote Your Conscience
by William F. Torpey
It seems that politicians, like lawyers, have graduated from being the butt of everybody's jokes to becoming the targets of every lowlife who disagrees with their political positions. One reason for the increased enmity, in my view, is the demise of the two-party system. published 4 months ago
63Let Parties Pick Their Candidates
by William F. Torpey
Years ago, political parties were closely knit units in which the leadership and the membership pretty much agreed on the basic issues facing the city, state and country. That is to say Republicans agreed with Republicans, Democrats agreed with Democrats. published 5 months ago
60Clinton Deserves a Break
by William F. Torpey
Dirty politics is as old as Moses, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. But when it rears its ugly head, it's always dirty pool. President Clinton, in 1994, was a victim of such tactics, but he was in good company -- Harry Truman, for one. published 5 months ago
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