Dick Polman
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A key GOP primary, a proxy war for the party’s soul
Hey, there’s a key election tonight! We’re likely to get an early reading on whether the far-right extremists w ...
11 years ago
Censorship 1, Condoleezza Rice 0
Condoleezza Rice has surrendered to the censors. She ...
11 years ago
Palin on the wane: She’s even ticking off Christians
It’s generally a waste of space to reference Sarah Palin, which is why she so rarely appears here. She long ago devolv ...
11 years ago
Voter impersonation fraud: The GOP’s phantom menace
A funny thing happened the other day when a federal judge weighed the constitutional worth of a voter ID law. He looked and he loo ...
11 years ago
Fox News fan says Obamacare saved his life
For Obamacare haters, this kind of real-life success story is the ultimate nightmare. Dean Angstadt, a self-employed logger with a ...
11 years ago
A federal indictment, and a Grimm limbo
Let’s talk about congressional bad boys – there have been very few bad girls – and what the heck we should do about the ...
11 years ago
John Boehner, sipping a fine whine
John Boehner is a standard country-club Republican who’s happily hard-wired to wave the party flag (low taxes, fewer regs), pass th ...
11 years ago
Cliven Bundy’s slippery slope from demigod to dope
The deafening din you just heard was the rumble of right-wingers ...
11 years ago
Romney resurfaces as party elder, because who else is there?
All hail the comeback kid! Mitt Romney is back in heavy circulation. He has endorsed three Republican candidates during the past w ...
11 years ago
Selling slavery on a license plate
Jason Carter, a Democrat who aspires this year to win the Georgia gubernatorial job once held by his grandpa Jimmy, was asked on MSNBC th ...
11 years ago
The Keystone pipeline punt is pure politics
Every so often, someone in politics says something so preposterously hilarious that we’re at pains to prevent our coffee from exiti ...
11 years ago
Yo, Democrats: Stop running from Obamacare
Nobody knows who first said “the best defense is a good offense” – perhaps Sun Tzu, or Machiavelli, or Vi ...
11 years ago