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Why does Obama hate strippers and card sharks? They got mortgages...

A latest dispatch from the the land of political foolery comes from Mike Lillis today at the Washington Independent. It involves Pres. Obama in...

Gay Task Force to Obama: Don’t say it; do it

A little more than an hour into his State of the Union speech, Obama glancingly addressed the fact that he has done nothing notable...

Text of the State of the Union: ‘Let me repeat: we...

The full prepared text of the State of the Union Speech is now online. The president just ad-libbed after recounting the tax cutting his...

Fox News Poll: Obama would still trounce rivals. Damn!

Fox News commissioned a poll last week to test voters feelings about the President and members of Congress. The national telephone poll was conducted...

Times sees Colorado disappointment over health reform as emblematic

In a front-page story that positions Colorado as representative, the New York Times today reports that voters here "crave reform of health care and...

Looking to settle score, GOP seizes on Reid gaffe

Moments before midnight on Friday, Marc Ambinder blogged at The Atlantic about some of the “juiciest revelations” in “Game Change,” a behind-the-scenes book on the 2008 presidential campaign by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the authors, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was bullish on Barack Obama’s chances at becoming the first African-American president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Schools out: David Brooks laments Tea Party anti-intellectualism

New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks notes a trend in politics over the last year: The voting public is moving not just to...

Homeland Security warned us we needed to start checking underwear

Newsweek is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security last fall was exploring the threat posed to air travelers by bombs secreted aboard planes...

The economic case for health reform, Part II

In June, the White House issued a report making the case that health reform — well beyond a moral and social imperative — is...

Are they still boarding planes? Tuesday was deadline for new ‘Real...

Is Real ID a really failed policy? The Bush-era Real ID Act of 2005 sought to impose standards for identification materials across the country. In...
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