Month: September 2011

Special Elections

I’m not encouraged by the early returns out of NY-09 or NV-02. I don’t really care about these seats. The New York seat won’t even exist next year, and the Nevada seat is not friendly territory. But it’s...

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Repentant Republicans

How many of you know someone like this? I also converted 3 years ago. The person you describe might as well be me. I recall the tipping point, watching the Republican National Convention. Rudy Guliani was speaking, and I very...

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Analyzing the FEMA-Funding Vote

There was very interesting roll call in the Senate late yesterday afternoon. It was a vote to invoke cloture (i.e., end debate) on a bill to give FEMA some money to deal with disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene....

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A Grateful Nation Remembers

I’m a little late to the party on this – it took me a while to stomach looking through it – but I couldn’t help but notice that in Sunday’s print edition of the NYT, the special section...

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Running Ads: Obama is Not Pro-Israel Enough

. Obama is not pro-Israel enough for U.S. advocacy group (Haaretz) – Emergency Committee for Israel launches billboard and media campaign claiming Obama pressures Israel to ‘apologize to terrorists’ and...

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