Month: April 2012

Time to Dial Down the Outrage

I find this so tiresome: Last year, the left was angry. At their [Netroots Nation] conference in Minneapolis last year, the anger of thousands of progressives who were spitting mad at President Obama was palpable. They dragged...

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Cranky McSame is Upset

John McCain is irritated that the Democrats are accusing the Republicans of waging a war on women. He made his displeasure known on the Senate floor while expressing his support for renewing the Violence Against Women Act. Of...

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Some Context for Zimmerman

Reuters did their research on George Zimmerman and they paint a highly sympathetic portrait of his life and motivations for confronting Trayvon Martin. In seeking out people who have known him over the years, they get a lot of...

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Paul Ryan Meets The Jesuits

Within the Catholic Church, the Jesuits are to intellectual disputation what the Yankees are to Major League Baseball, what the Marines are to armed forces, what Goldman Sachs is to Wall Street.  Esquire’s Charles...

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No One Will Miss the Blue Dogs

Don’t cry for the Blue Dogs: Compared to the 2006 and 2008 cycles, when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sought a cadre of Blue Dog Democrats to re-take the House, there aren’t nearly as many self-identified...

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