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When in “Doubt”, “Strategize”
January 09, 2014
There’s just one small thing missing from the news stories that have come pouring out about the soon-to-be-published book by former defense secretary Robert Gates. But to find the omission, start with the thing all of the stories do have: the revelation that President ...

A Mid-Term Election Will Chase Those Doldrums Away
January 08, 2014
Frank Luntz is depressed. The infamous GOP “word guru” is fed up with life. What’s wrong with America’s beloved focus group maven? Luntz is typically described as a “wordsmith,” as his most well-known function involves giving Republicans the ...

New Data Proves ACA Made of Candy!
January 07, 2014
You’re sitting in an airplane, and you suddenly hear the pilot’s amplified and disembodied voice. Look, he says, we don’t have a cockpit in this thing, with all those dials and knobs and whatchamawhosit, and there’s no place for me to look out a window ...

A Place to Say “I Don’t”
January 06, 2014
So . . . plantation weddings are a thing now. Or rather, they have been a thing for years, but they’re back in the news after a wildly shortsighted attempt by folk singer Ani DiFranco to host some kind of inspirational songwriting workshop at a plantation. Perhaps you remember ...

Fun and Games Ahead in 2014
January 02, 2014
If you thought 2013 was unpleasant, remember this one thing: at least it didn’t drop a mid-term election on us. This year’s big political event can’t be stopped, and will begin to take up twenty-three hours a day on the cable news channels no later than ...

The Year in Political Idiocy
December 30, 2013
On September 16th, hours after a man had killed a dozen or more people a couple of miles away at the Washington Navy Yard, a middle-aged fellow in shorts and a t-shirt lit a couple of firecrackers and threw them over the White House fence. An eyewitness likened his action, and ...

Pot, Meet Kettle
December 27, 2013
Self-awareness: it helps. Sort-of-recently discussing the contemporary political scene with Politico’s Glenn Thrush, Obama administration macher John Podesta was sufficiently obtuse to warn that his boss faced “a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of ...