Month: February 2016

RIP Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier has died. He was Philadelphia’s greatest boxer and my favorite fighter of all time. I actually worked with a guy at ACORN who had done some serious time in prison for some unspecified crimes. He told me a story...

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Obama’s Heroin Push is Welcome, But Flawed

I want to be very careful in what I say here. But there is something very wrong with the following: The White House is calling for more than a billion dollars in funding to transform opioid treatment in the United States, two...

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Iowa: The Republicans

Before I dive into the results from last night on the Republican side, I want to point you to an article we have up authored by Josiah Lee Auspitz. Mr. Auspitz takes a long look at how the GOP allocates its delegates to the...

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Iowa: The Democrats

The spin doctors are fully employed this morning. Insofar as they’re being truthful, you can find the best lawyerly case for each candidate. I’m not interested in lawyerly cases except in the limited sense that I...

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Caucus Results

I’m too tired to do a complete rundown of the caucus results tonight. The whole thing disgusts me. I just want to remind you of something. Here were the results in Iowa eight years ago. Barack Obama: 940 delegates, 37.6%...

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