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State of the Union: Hype and reality

February 12, 2013
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The Beltway media is brimming with breathless stories about tonight's State of the Union speech. They basically fall into two categories: (1) What Obama Will Say, and (2) What Obama Should Say. W... More »
Why Christie's girth is a weighty issue

February 11, 2013
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Chris Christie got laughs on the Letterman show last week when he showed up with a doughnut. I get what he was trying to do. People keep goofing on his girth, and a former White House doctor had just ... More »
The senators drone on and on

February 8, 2013
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We might as well laugh about it, as Conan O'Brien did last night: "President Obama can order drone strikes on American citizens. So this is the last joke I will be doing." More »
The GOP's circular firing squad

February 7, 2013
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We now join the GOP bloodbath, already in progress. Some day, presumably, the party will again be at peace with itself. But at least for the foreseeable future, anyone who was cheered by the decisive... More »
Will the Boy Scouts join the 21st century?

February 6, 2013
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When I heard that the Boy Scouts of America might lift its national ban against gay people, I couldn't help but recall the time I lunched with the organization's apparatchiks. Indeed, it... More »
Death by drone: Obama's elastic legalities

February 5, 2013
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President Obama's death-by-drone strategy is a political winner. Most Democrats are fine with it because Obama is one of them, and most Republicans have been loathe to criticize it because ther... More »
Meet the skeet shooter truthers

February 4, 2013
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We interrupt the news cycle to bring you the latest lamentable manifestation of what historian Richard Hofstadter famously called "the paranoid style in American politics." The skeet shoote... More »
Is Al Gore a hypocrite?

February 1, 2013
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Al Gore is not a hypocrite, says Al Gore. But his self-vetting is not necessarily persuasive. What a week this was for the ex-veep. More »
Chuck Hagel, ambushed by unnamed enemies

January 31, 2013
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Even the lowliest crook on trial for petty larceny has the right to confront his accusers in open court. But a public servant who wishes to be Secretary of Defense gets no such opportunity. That�... More »
Frank Lautenberg and an age-old issue

January 30, 2013
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So what do you think, is Frank Lautenberg too old to launch another Senate campaign? Age is an age-old issue in politics, and a delicate one. It's typically bad form to ridicule an incumbent w... More »