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Missouri’s Senate Race Reminds Us Politics Is Not Tabloid Theatre
Tweet Share on Facebook October 28, 2010 Comment (1)Active sports fans are familiar with the clever phrase “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Intimating, of course, that the fighting in professional hockey frequently garners more enthusiasm than the game itself.
In a madcap election cycle that has witnessed unforeseeable Tea Party Republican primary upsets (Utah and Connecticut), Democrats rushing to distance themselves from President Obama (West Virginia and Rhode Island--where the Democratic gubernatorial candidate declared two days ago that Obama could take his endorsement and “shove it”), something odd happened on the way to the ballot box: a traditional, competitive campaign broke out.
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Wikileaks Actually Achieved Something Good: Bipartisanship
Tweet Share on Facebook October 8, 2010 Comment (6)On Wednesday, at a conference sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center at the Willard Hotel in Washington, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made his first public comments since assuming that position. By all accounts, Clapper, a retired three-star Air Force general, is a low-profile and understated leader who keeps to himself whenever possible.
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Unable to Govern, Obama Tries Campaigning
Tweet Share on Facebook October 1, 2010 Comment (11)The scientific principle known as Occam’s Razor postulates that, all other hypotheses being equal, the solution set that requires the fewest assumptions is generally the correct one.
To put it lightly, things have not been good for President Barack Obama in recent months. His favorability ratings dipped below 50 percent for the first time in his presidency, a large majority of Americans now oppose his recently enacted massive healthcare and stimulus laws, and his party faces what are likely to be crushing defeats in the upcoming midterm elections.
