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Impeach Mark Fuller, the federal judiciary’s Ray Rice
Say, for the sake of argument, that you’re in court, appearing before a judge. Would you feel confident about the guy in robes if y ...
11 years ago
The Secret Service and the CYA syndrome
Two quick thoughts about the Secret Service: (1) The doofus agency is sure to be featured this weekend in Saturday Night Live ...
11 years ago
The campaign season’s most brazen lie (so far)
Any resemblance to yesterday’s post is entirely intentional. First we singled out the season’s most repugnant Senate campaign ...
11 years ago
The campaign season’s most repugnant TV ad (so far)
My original plan was to patiently wait until midterm election eve before singling out the season’s most repugnant campaign ad. But ...
11 years ago
Goodbye Eric Holder, hello to a new partisan war
Oh man. Just what we needed, another Washington crapstorm. You don’t need a PhD in politics to understand why Eric Holder ti ...
11 years ago
GOP guy: Our next nominee “can’t be the richest whitest person in the room”
I shook my head in pity the other day while reading Michael Gerson, a senior aide in the Bush White House, as he sought to convince his f ...
11 years ago
Back to the future: In new ads, Republicans try to party like it’s 2002
Those of you with long memories can probably conjure the midterm campaigns of 2002, when Republicans ramped up for the disastrous Iraq in ...
11 years ago
The Hillary haters’ anthem: “Better call Saul”
Perhaps the shrinks can explain, in clinical terms, why right-wingers are so obsessed about long-dead community organizer Saul Alinsky. B ...
11 years ago
For Christie, New Jersey’s economic woes could be a bridge too far
On the long road to ’16, Chris Christie would be well advised to remember the ’92 Clinton adage, “It̵ ...
11 years ago
D.C. statehood: Praise for a lost cause
Now that Scotland has voted to stay in the United Ki ...
11 years ago
Sniper kills Pennsylvania state cop, yet nobody calls him a terrorist
The press and the Pennsylvania cops have crafted all kinds of labels for Eric Matthew Frein. He’s a “cop-hating gunman,” ...
11 years ago
The ISIS crisis: Here we go down the slippery slope
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. Less than a week after President Obam ...
11 years ago