Dick Polman
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Yo, bureaucratic bigots: Do your job, or quit
Gay marriage is the law of the land, but alas, 52 days after the ruling, there are still places in America where homophobic bigots on the ...
10 years ago
Hillary, Jeb, and the downside of deja vu
The reason we’re less than scintillated by a Hillary-Jeb ’16 scenario is because it feels like we’ve seen it all before ...
10 years ago
Will Trump get dumped for his remarks about Planned Parenthood?
OK, maybe this is the incident that will reverse Donald Trump’s meteoric rise: On CNN the other day, he ...
10 years ago
Scott Walker’s government welfare for fat cats
Hey, remember Scott Walker? The alleged hot commodity who was a semi-cipher during the first Republican debate? Who has been toppled from ...
10 years ago
History reboot: Democrats dump the ‘Jefferson-Jackson’ brand
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are having a very bad summer. In pollster-speak, they have “high unfavorables.” Even thou ...
10 years ago
The GOP’s women woes go far beyond Trump’s blood feud
This weekend, we heard the most priceless clarification ever issued by a presidential candidate. Ever. The Republican front-runn ...
10 years ago
The GOP’s steel cage spectacle: Were we not entertained?
Mere words cannot begin to describe last night’s steel cage ...
10 years ago
ListenA fair and balanced fantasy: Debate questions Fox News would love to ask
At Fox News, the Republican party’s infauxtainment outlet, tonight’s debate moderators are working hard to craft purporte ...
10 years ago
Congress is too gutless to raise the gas tax
If you want to see Washington in action – or, more precisely, Washington inaction – consider its latest wimpish response to o ...
10 years ago
Joe Biden and the mighty media buzz machine
So the big news lately – if you can really call it news – is that Joe Biden is “talking to people” about a potent ...
10 years ago
The politics of Cuba: Hillary’s shrewd chess move
Hillary haters insist that her emails are a major scandal that could wreck her candidacy. But if they understood the first thing about po ...
10 years ago
Happy 50th birthday to Medicare, and the conservative howlers of yesteryear
Yesterday marked the 50th birthday of Medicare – in LBJ’s words, as he signed that historic achievement, “No longer wil ...
10 years ago