Month: December 2015

Why Stand to Give a Speech?

Callum Borchers writes for the Washington Post. According to his bio, his assignment is to cover “the intersection of politics and media.” He appears to do this for Chris Cillizza’s little niche called...

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Casual Observation

I don’t know that it particularly matters to the president how his speech tonight is received. He’s speaking to the history books. It’s not like this Congress will do anything sensible regardless of what he...

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The Iowa Caucuses Are a Fraud

I am going to state right here at the outset that this is a painful thing to write. Painful, but necessary. I am going to talk about media coverage of the Iowa caucuses and our ridiculous political system. You may remember in...

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