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Getting It Good And Hard
Posted on November 15, 2012
It was H.L. Mencken who said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Plenty of people got...
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Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain?
Posted on November 14, 2012
Airplane! is one of my favorite movies. It has a lot of great scenes, but one of my favorites profiled James J. Kirkpatrick and Shana Alexander arguing, like they always...
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The New Puritanism
Posted on November 13, 2012
Had David Petraeus decided to divorce his wife, he would still be CIA Director, and the FBI would be investigating somebody else’s sex life. If David Petraeus were gay, he...
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Forward?
Posted on November 12, 2012
In retrospect, Forward was a brilliant campaign motto. Forward for the President implied backward for his opponent. And, unfortunately for the Republicans, they fell into the archetype all too easily....
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Move to the Middle?
Posted on November 9, 2012
The talk about the GOP moving to the middle is non-sense. It is not going to happen in a mid-term election. Republicans represent red districts. They are not going to...
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