Month: August 2011

Progress in Wisconsin

I know everyone wants to spin the results in Wisconsin but this is ridiculous. I’m obviously not an expert on Wisconsin elections and I don’t dispute that it is disappointing to fall one seat short of taking control...

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GOP Less Popular Than the Clap

Public Policy Polling and CNN/Opinion Research both find that the Republicans hurt themselves much worse in the polls during the debt ceiling fight than they hurt the Democrats or the president. Of course, politics is not a game...

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Crazy London Riots

I’m not a fan of the Daily Mail but they’ve put together a pretty fascinating collage of the London Riots. It’s impressive how much of the city has been destroyed. It’s worse than the Rodney King riots. I...

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We’re Not Living in 1937

We hear people compare Barack Obama to Franklin Delano Roosevelt quite a lot, usually in an unfavorable manner. We also hear people talk about 1937 as an object lesson on what not to repeat about the latter Roosevelt...

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