Month: June 2012

Scott Brown Says Dumb Things

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown says dumb things.  He hasn’t met with “kings and queens”.  He never saw classified photographs that proved Osama bin Laden was “definitely dead”.  The...

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Call Me an Optimist

I’ll stipulate that Charlie Cook’s analysis is justified by the numbers he is looking at, but I just do not believe that this is going to be a close election. I might have said the same thing in 1980. Yes, in 1980,...

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Christie’s Misplaced Man-Crush

I’m willing to acknowledge that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen. And I definitely count that in the governor’s favor. But as I read about him dancing like a maniac to Badlands...

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The Health Care Debate is Stupid

Reading back over the oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding the mandate in the Affordable Care Act, it is very striking how stupid this whole argument became. It used to be that Republicans were obsessed about people...

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Will Ecuador Grant Assange Asylum?

. Assange Seeks Political Asylum in Ecuador (Ecuador Times) – Ecuador’s Foreign office is currently analyzing the request of political asylum made by Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. The Ecuadorian foreign...

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