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The trolls assess the Gettysburg Address
Today marks the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which framed our national aspirations in less than 300 ...
11 years ago
“The holiday turkey sure looks grand this year,” Dick Cheney said. “Why don’t we go around the tabl ...
11 years ago
Sabotaging court nominees and dissing democracy
At the recent memorial service for Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley, former Republican leader Bob Michel talked nostalgically about how ...
12 years ago
Presidential lying: A history primer
Presidents sometimes lie, as evidenced most recently by Barack Obama’s you-can-keep-your-plan doozy. But where does his lie rank in ...
12 years ago
Comparing the lies about Obamacare
How about this for a deal: If I acknowledge that President Obama lied when he repeatedly stated that everyone who liked the ...
12 years ago
Chris Christie: Straight talker or inartful dodger?
If you buy Chris Christie’s depiction of himself as a no-bull straight talker who Sez What He Means ‘n’ Means What ...
12 years ago
Conservatives go mum about bogus Benghazi story
The apology (such as it was) surfaced at the tail end of the broadcast last night. 60 Minutes, having just been bu ...
12 years ago
The ’13 elections: A small step to the left
To those of you who think America is a center-right nation, I now offer a partial corrective. We may indeed be center-right on the fiscal ...
12 years ago
Even big business is fed up with the tea party
For the latest dispatch from the GOP’s uncivil war, we take you now to Alabama. Because there’s no way we can fully unpack Tu ...
12 years ago
Will the GOP learn its election night lesson?
Based on the election results in New Jersey and Virginia, the Republicans have stark choices going forward: They can nominate candidates ...
12 years ago
LAX shootings: Just another ‘random’ day in the USA
It was such a relief to learn that the alleged L.A. airport shooter wasn’t a swarthy al Qaeda guy with an unpronounceable name, tha ...
12 years ago