They’re making money hand over fist, but before long candidates could realize they don’t need them.
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Daily Meme: To Nugent, or Not to Nugent
Remember Ted Nugent? If the sands of the past year have managed to erase all thoughts of the ageing rocker, gun fanatic, and raging conservative, you’re in for a rude awakening. Nugent is back in the headlines after declaring (at-where else-a gun website) that President Obama was a “chimpanzee” and a “sub-human mongrel.” Well, actually, […]
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Why Wage Hikes Should Be All the Rage
But Congress still needs to act.
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Rand Paul Plays Ted Nugent Like a Fender Stratocaster
Paul may or may not turn out to be a skilled presidential candidate, but he works the media better than any other contender.
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Ashes to Ashes—The 3D Edition
When you buy a ticket to a movie called Pompeii, expecting art or even brains would be fatuous; what you want is a good time. Sue me for confessing I had one.
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Daily Meme: The Emails Scott Walker Wishes Had Never Been Sent
Everyone who has worked in politics for more than 10 minutes knows that you can’t do campaign work from your official office, on the taxpayer’s clock. And what happens if you do? Well, you can actually go to jail. And the secret email system you set up to enable you to do campaign work when […]
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John McCain Says Ignorant, Belligerent Things; Press Swoons
McCain knows nothing about foreign affairs, yet is treated as though his thoughts on Ukraine are worth listening to.
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Federal Government Soon to Know Everywhere You’ve Driven
There are more license-plate cameras installed all the time. Now the government wants to put all the data together in one database.
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Arkansas’s Medicaid Folly
87,000 people have gotten insurance through the state’s Medicaid expansion—now that it’s working so well, GOP legislators are trying to get rid of the plan.
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Needling for Change
There’s a way to keep drug users from overdosing on heroin. Unfortunately, it’s illegal.