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2012 elections
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Truth takes an election holiday
Watching the 2012 presidential election unfold, Jack Nicholson’s great scene as Colonial Nathan Jessep in the film “A Few Good Men” comes to mind. “You can’t handle the truth,” Jessep snarls when he’s pressed about the murder of a young cadet. Something has happened to truth in this election. Is truth’s troubling absence due to […]
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Biden comes through for Dems
For those Democrats who needed to be juiced up again after last week’s first presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden came through for them during last night’s vice-presidential debate with Republican candidate Paul Ryan. While there will surely be some jeers about Biden’s many laughs and interruptions, it was pure Biden on display. Nobody really […]
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Romney cuts himself with his own axe
Mitt Romney may have at last made errors that he can’t overcome, even with the help of a highly financed ad campaign. The more he talks, the more he reveals that he is stunningly uninformed. Today he’s trying to deal with a video, obtained by Mother Jones Magazine, of a talk to wealthy Republican donors. […]
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Romney’s bow to the far right isn’t working
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s long and illustrious political star plummeted when the Brits rightly opposed being dragged into President George W. Bush’s Iraq War. The British tabloids began referring to Blair as W’s poodle. It wasn’t the same kind of puppetry we saw with former Russian President Medvedev and Putin, but it was […]
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Clinton Country
There are a lot of things you could say about Bill Clinton. You get the bad and the good with the former president. His legislative achievements, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell, and the Defense of Marriage Act were flawed policies when he signed them into law. Even Clinton agrees that DADT […]
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Facts aren’t Ryan’s forte
For weeks, political pundits and journalists — a lot not known for niceties — have treated Paul Ryan’s comments like they were delicate little finger sandwiches. Dan Amira wrote an excellent article for New York Magazine saying that Ryan’s campaign strategy is to ignore the facts and just attack. He’s relying on the public’s ignorance, […]
