Dick Polman
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Obama’s warning to Team No: Confirm Garland, or risk getting someone worse
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On Stupor Wednesday, the GOP gapes at its existential crisis
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Donald Trump and Tipping Point Tuesday
The poet-essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.” If he were alive today, he ...
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Hillary Clinton’s twisted history lesson
At a town hall last night, Hillary Clinton said: “I watch my husband campaign, and it is just poetry …. That’s not nece ...
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Trump says rally violence is ‘love for the country’
Donald Trump decreed last night that the sporadic violence at his rallies, the assaults on dissenting fellow Americans, are motivated by ...
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When Trump talks trash, Republican cowards bite their lips
What a kick it was this morning to watch a Republican politician bob and weave on the topic of Donald Trump. It was a profile in cowardic ...
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Michigan as microcosm: Hillary’s autumn vulnerability
If you believe, as I do, that Donald Trump could defeat Hillary Clinton this fall and become America’s first certified autocrat, yo ...
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Our only businessman president was Herbert Hoover. ‘Nuff said.
I’m talking to voters in a swing county in North Carolina, and they’re besotted with the successful businessman who’s r ...
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Big-hands Trump and his school for chumps
It’s tempting, if only in the spirit of entertainment, to recap the latest night of Republican repugnance by dwelling on the histor ...
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