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GOP bombs Womenistan
The other day after work I heard a report by Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered. He was gauging voter sentiment in the swing state of Colorado. One interviewee who made the cut was a female...
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Political prudence for the GOP
It’s been almost two weeks now since the Great Disappointment of 2012. In 1844, the Millerites were let down in their expectation of divine deliverance. With the wailing and self-flagellation of some...
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The Wizard of Bogeyman Narratives
Yahoo News has thrown up (in the fullest sense of the term) a piece by Chris Moody on Grover Norquist. It’s accompanied by a gaudy, melodramatic illustration that’s more at home disgracing the cover...
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Reverse schadenfreude over Tim Scott
I have to admit, I was energized when I learned that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley selected Tim Scott to succeed Jim DeMint in the U.S. Senate. Here we have a female Republican of South Indian...
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Immigration reform: of RINOs and Rubio
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Eight preempted President Obama with a declaration of intent to tackle immigration reform. I’ve not been totally on top of the news...
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Defunding Obamacare: principled, or pointless?
For some time now, the Wall Street Journal editorial board has been warning about the futility of the strategy to defund Obamacare before it goes into effect in October. The evening before Ted Cruz...
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Amnesty, conservatism, and reality
Scott Greer at the Daily Caller warns that “Pro-amnesty hawks are in for a rude surprise.” His analysis is questionable on several points. 1. No Republican supports amnesty. Which specific GOP-backed...
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What’s wrong with this cartoon?
Here’s a simplistic take on President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Carlson, the cartoonist, sympathetically depicts Obama as calm and optimistic. Meanwhile, Republicans are shown as afraid to...
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Arizona Dems’ unreasoned defense of gun buybacks
I have to say, the Boston bombing earlier this week makes these days sad and sobering. Breaching insanity-as-usual, there is for a time, something approaching a public consensus on the reality of...
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Democrats and identity politics dishonesty
Fox News is a venue more fit for exchanging sound bites than exchanging measured arguments. Yet, there is value even in analyzing sound bites, because those still should be backed by honesty and...
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