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Rape is Rape, and Taxes are Taxes: Latest GOP Rhetorical Moves
My piece published on POLITICO today, taking a further look at how the GOP ticket’s response to the Akin “legitimate rape” blowup reflects a broader rhetorical strategy of avoidance and evasion — a...
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Joltin’ Joe at the DNC
My thoughts here at POLITICO, on VP Biden’s speech at the convention last week…
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Shut down the GOP?
All kinds of folks from the ideological Right are calling for a break with the newly and awkardly reconstituted Romney GOP. Is it time, as Laura Ingraham said, to just start over? My thoughts here on...
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One Tweet Was the Start of It All…?
Thoughts here today on POLITICO about the ongoing MidEast flareup with its supposed roots in an amateur YouTube video, and a Cairo embassy tweet that Mitt Romney treated as a presidential pronouncement.
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The Conservative Echo Chamber
In the aftermath of the trouncing last Tuesday, some in the media and on the Right are finally beginning to examine the consequences of the conservative echo chamber. I’ve had friends who have been...
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The Collapse of Conservatism Continues
My second installment at POLITICO co-authored with my friend and conservative veteran Scot Faulkner, on the total disappearance of anything resembling a conservative movement or conservative...
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Republicans’ Uncivil War
My latest here in POLITICO on the GOP crackup, with my collaborator Scot Faulkner.
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How the budget mess actually works out: And how we talk about it
A column here on POLITICO from my friend and frequent coauthor Scot Faulkner, who managed the books on Capitol Hill for a number of years, and knows of what he speaks. The language and rhetoric...
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The Third-Party Trap
My latest article, published today in POLITICO Magazine, coauthored with historian David Frisk — biographer of the late William A. Rusher, Buckley’s longtime colleague and the publisher of National...
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Can Mike Lee Save the Tea Party?
My piece published in POLITICO yesterday considers the importance of the tea party’s choice of Utah Sen. Mike Lee to be their official respondent to the President’s State of the Union Address — while...
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