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The Beast at Their Breast
Spartan Boys in Training Democrats and Republicans have always reminded me of the Athenians and the Spartans. In the political world of ancient Greece, the Athenians were cultivated, scholarly,...
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No 14th Amendment Remedy
President Obama speaks to the nation on the evening of July 25 President Obama (or his Press Secretary, anyway) announced yesterday that the 14th Amendment Remedy to the debt ceiling standoff is “not...
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Burning Down the House
In this House, the M.D. doesn’t stand for More Debt Here we are, two business days away from the hard ceiling on the debt limit, after blowing through the acoustic tiles a couple of months ago. And...
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Listing To Starboard
By now it’s conventional wisdom that the Republican Party has moved extremely far to the right. So far, in fact, that Michele Bachmann (heretofore best known for this clip in which she demands that her...
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Have They Had Their Fill of Tea?
Too much tea? Filistro has written copious prose about the Tea Party, and her belief in its destiny to rend the Republican Party in two. But right now, it seems that the Republican Party has had its...
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Rule By Extortion
Congress is more or less in recess. One might think this could give a short respite to the strong-arm tactics we’ve been seeing from Republicans. But no, the Republicans are holding occasional...
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The Ideology Gamble
Losing with Christine seems like a funny way of winning. Last year, people all over the political universe were calling Republicans crazy for rejecting the more moderate Mike Castle, Sue Lowden, and...
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Attention, Please!
Zuccotti Park filled with Occupiers It’s now been over two months since Zuccotti Park was commandeered by the beginnings of the Occupy Movement. As I noted several weeks ago, the group promised to...
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Lessons Learned
The dust is finally settling from the election. And I’ll be talking more later about some of the ramifications. Today, though, I’m interested in some navel gazing. There are many lessons to be learned...
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Beware The Cuckoo’s Egg
Cuckoo’s egg in a reed warbler’s nest The cuckoo does not build a nest or rear its own young. Instead it lays its eggs, one by one, in the nests of other, smaller birds. When the chicks hatch, the...
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