Dick Polman
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The GOP takeover: Doubling down on dysfunction?
When Jerry Moran, chairman of the GOP’s Senate campaign arm, was asked this morning whether midterm voters sent a message to the ne ...
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A tip sheet for the mysterious midterms
“Nobody has polled on this yet” – I’m quoting myself, writing in another venue – “but it’s a fa ...
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s frat house hijinks
Somebody should pitch a reality show called Keystone Court Capers. Too bad Animal House is already ...
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Tim Cook’s iGay: Will his rollout have global resonance?
Until yesterday, 0 percent of the Fortune 500 CEOs were openly gay. Tim Cook’s coming out – a metaphor for a more tolerant Am ...
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Boehner suing Obama: Whatever happened to that stunt?
Hey, remember the House GOP’s big summer ...
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Hillary, Elizabeth Warren, and the Democratic divide
You get the feeling that Hillary Clinton is peering warily over her left shoulder at Elizabeth Warren, if only because the presumed ̵ ...
11 years ago
Sexist Republican ads won’t sway single women
I recently highlighted the campaign season’s most repugnantly ...
11 years ago
Chris Christie speaks the truth about vote suppression
Chris Christie prides himself on being a straight shooter, so it was great the other day when he spoke the truth behind the ...
11 years ago
Tom Corbett’s costly schmooze deficit
Tip O’Neill, the legendary House Speaker, famously said that “all politics is local,” but it’s just as true that ...
11 years ago
A guilty verdict (finally!) on Bush’s Blackwater mercenaries
Every once in a while, the residual stench from the Bush administration’s Iraq disaster still stings our nostrils. Remember ...
11 years ago
GOP no-no: Saying anything nice about Obamacare
John Kasich, former House Republican wunderkind and current governor of Ohio, clearly wants to run for president in 2016. Just look at th ...
11 years ago
Why are we Americans so czar-struck?
Let’s take a break from our Ebola freakout and debate something a bit more benign – like word usage. For instance, why do we ...
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