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By Petrarch | Feb 14, 2008 |
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If a politician is listening to a "special interest group," and is doing what they request, does that mean that he's their "captive"? Or, rather, does it mean that he is performing his Constitutional duty of listening to the grievances of a group of hi...
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By Petrarch | Feb 8, 2008 |
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Thanks to the superdelegates, Barack Obama could win the popular electoral vote fair and square, and still lose at the convention.
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By Petrarch | Feb 7, 2008 |
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Yesterday would have been Reagan's 97th birthday; and so we ask, does anyone wear Reagan's mantle today?
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By Petrarch | Feb 5, 2008 |
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Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?
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By Petrarch | Jan 24, 2008 |
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George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.
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By Demosthenes | Jan 21, 2008 |
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In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?
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By Petrarch | Jan 18, 2008 |
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The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.
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By Petrarch | Jan 3, 2008 |
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The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.
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By Demosthenes | Dec 31, 2007 |
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The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."
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By Petrarch | Dec 21, 2007 |
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With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.