Month: December 2013

Casualties of the Conservative Movement

Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Tom Latham (R-IA) both serve on the House Appropriations Committee, and both of them announced their retirement today. Maybe this shouldn’t be surprising, but the deal that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)...

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Return of the News Bucket

With the repeated bouts of snow we’ve had this week,. this seemed appropriate: Please use the comments below to share your interesting news tidbits of the day…

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Rodman Should Cancel Trip

Maybe Dennis Rodman is a mad genius. I certainly like the idea that dialogue with North Korea is better than total isolation, but sometimes you have to cancel a trip despite of whatever promises you may have made. Kim Jong Un...

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How to Prevent Another Santorum

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was born on November 17th, 1946, so he would be just shy of 70 years old on election day in 2016. That’s pretty aged for a presidential candidate, but he’s only a year older than Hillary...

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Paging Donald Trump

Jeh Johnson was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the Senate today. This would be unremarkable except that Jeh (pronounced ‘Jay’) is black, was born on September 11th, and is named after a Liberian...

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