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Sarah Palin Smart to Bow Out of CPAC Appearance
Tweet Share on Facebook February 12, 2009 Comment (23)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Could Sarah Palin be taking my advice?
(Sure, genius; she's the one that keeps interrupting your calls from President Obama.)
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Evolution Gets Plurality Support in America—Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin
Tweet Share on Facebook February 11, 2009 Comment (15)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Less than 40 percent of Americans believe Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Seriously?
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Obama Looks Like Bush on National Security Secrecy Argument
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2009 Comment (5)Bad news today for people who were hoping that Barack Obama would roll back some of the imperial executive which Bush, Cheney and their wacky legal theorists built over the last eight years. The new administration's lawyers picked up a questionable legal theory from the old administration, that national security trumps due process of law.
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Alex Rodriguez Should Drop the Saved Steroids Sinner Act
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2009 Comment (6)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Granted there is a certain formula which high-profile entertainers use when publicly admitting error, and a level of shameless dishonesty is a basic part of it. But Alex Rodriguez's interview regarding his illegal steroid use still irked me for its transparent nonsense.
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Obama Won the Less Religious States (Except Palin Alaska), McCain Won Where Bible Is Strong
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2009 Comment (14)Barack Obama won the least religious states in the union, while the more religious states tended to favor John McCain. This may not be a huge revelation, but the numbers are still interesting, especially for the exceptions to these general rules.
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Obama and Lincoln: Have Race Problems in America Improved Since the Civil War?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2009 Comment (3)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
If you didn't see it, check out this chart from Sunday's Washington Post; it looks at the percentage of the white vote that President Obama garnered in the states that existed when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860. In a superficial way, no one will be surprised to learn that John McCain got a higher-than-average percentage of the white vote in the confederate states (and the two of the four slave states that stayed in the Union, which 148 years later voted for McCain). I'm not wild about the implied correlation of race and voting, but ... it's interesting. Check it out.
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Obama Beating Republicans on Economic Stimulus, Polls Show
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Obama Risks Overusing the Bully Pulpit on Stimulus Package
Tweet Share on Facebook February 6, 2009 Comment (95)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
President Obama has started to use tougher language to push his stimulus package. Good. He tried playing nice and it got him nowhere, so it's time to put down the carrot and start using the stick. But his whole stimulus-pitching performance not only underscores his belief in the power of words but raises questions about whether he understands their limitations.
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Republican Party and Religious Right Heading for a Split?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 6, 2009 Comment (18)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The religious right might be souring on the GOP. That's the news out of a fascinating interview my colleague Dan Gilgoff has with Family Research Council chief Tony Perkins over at his God & Country blog.
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Washington, D.C. Voting Rights: George Will is Half-Right But Misses the Point
Tweet Share on Facebook February 5, 2009 Comment (17)George Will writes lays out a (mostly) cogent case in today's Washington Post against the bill, likely to become law, which would give the District of Columbia a voting member in the House of Representatives. But it fails to address a critical question: How would he apply fundamental principles of representative government to D.C. citizens?
