Month: March 2014

Will Gutless Wonders Never Cease?

Democrats Joe Manchin (WV), Chris Coons (DE), Bob Casey (PA), Mark Pryor (AR), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Joe Donnelly (IN), and John Walsh (MT) voted against President Obama’s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the...

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That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen

What happens when you test progressive ideas in the real world to see if they are sound ideas? This is what happens: When Washington [state] residents voted in 1998 to raise the state’s minimum wage and link it to the cost of...

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The Establishment vs. the Tea Party in Texas

I think it is probably pretty rare that John Fund and Ed Kilgore agree about anything. But, today, they’ve both written columns that insist that, contrary to a lot of bigfoot reporting you’re seeing, the Texas Tea...

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In McCain’s World

David Ignatius actually has a good column in today’s Washington Post. It’s built on two pillars. The first pillar is a look back to an interview he did with Scoop Jackson during the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1980. The...

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