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Is Bill Clinton Obama’s secret weapon this fall?
Sarah Palin gets all of the attention as a powerful kingmaker, or queenmaker in the case of this week’s elections. But another former politician has shown not only that he too is a kingmaker, but also...
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Vulnerable Dems this fall likely to cut ties with Obama
In the New York Times Magazine last week, Matt Bai wrote a long profile of President Obama as the Democrat in Chief. One of his more interesting conclusions was that Vice President Biden is more likely...
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Blame Obama for the oil spill? How about the press and public?
Everybody and their brother hammers President Obama for his lack of response to the Gulf Oil spill. But don’t we in the media and the public also deserve blame? If memory serves, the 2008 campaign...
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Why governors’ races don’t matter (or not too much)
Image by Beverly & Pack via Flickr Dan Balz argued in his column yesterday that the gubernatorial elections this fall will shape the course of American politics for the next decade. After all, the...
View ArticleThe remains
There is too much to comment on in the blogosphere, or there is for someone looking for a job full time. What follows is my attempt to address this problem: links to my favorite posts over the last few...
View ArticleHow Larry Ellison can save the NBA’s worst franchise
Under soon-to-be ex owner Chris Cohan, the Warriors might have been the sports franchise most out of touch with its community, although the Raiders would have come in a close second. Ticket prices...
View ArticleHow the Wall Street Journal misunderstands jobless benefits
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page won’t be happy that this afternoon the Senate voted to extend jobless benefits another 27 weeks. It argued this morning that any such extension would only keep...
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Should Catholics oppose the meritocracy?
Image via Wikipedia Ross Douthat doesn’t like the American meritocracy. Like Christopher Lasch and Front Porch Republic, he believes that it is intellectually conformist, saps local communities of...
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Second thoughts on the Democratic leadership
Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife In May, I wrote that Democrats likely would keep control of the House because their leadership has been politically competent. I still stand by that...
View ArticleCh-ch-ch-changes
You probably heard that TrueSlant has been bought by Forbes. All of us bloggers will no longer be posting on T/S effective at the end of the month. However, there is good news: I imported all of my...
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