Month: February 2012

Republican Hypocrisy – Part 217

Aside from being Republican governors, what do Jane Hull (AZ), Mike Huckabee (AR), George Pataki (NY), and Mitt Romney(MA) have in common? As reported by the LA Times earlier this week, they all signed laws requiring employers...

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Fewer Words; Less Filling

    by WALTER BRASCH It was a delightful show. All 37 Shakespearean plays, cleverly and humorously abridged to 97 minutes by the Reduced Shakespeare Co. Short of having a set of Cliff’s Notes or a collection...

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Romney Nr. 1 In Maine, Maybe Overturned

. Could Ron Paul Still Win Maine? (FiveThirtyEight/The Caucus) – Losing the Maine straw poll, even after the fact, would be unfortunate for Mr. Romney,  former governor of nearby Massachusetts, since he is locked in a...

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What If We Blow Them Out?

I created a very simplistic and somewhat unrealistic model to see what would happen if just slightly over one out of every 20 voters who voted for McCain winds up voting for Obama this November. I decided to see what would...

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Here We Go Again

In 2004, after a year of ferocious criticism, the New York Times published a famous mea culpa, apologizing, sort of, for its relentlessly misleading cheerleading of war against Iraq in the months leading up to that invasion....

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