View image | gettyimages.com We don’t yet know whether there will actually turn out to be something nefarious in the emails that Hillary Clinton somewhat belatedly passed on to the State Department, but I feel confident in predicting that this Clinton scandal will likely play out just like every other Clinton scandal. For those of […]
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The Conservative Information Bubble Lives On, Stoked By Juiced Fox News Polls
View image | gettyimages.com After the debacle of 2012, in which conservatives at all levels were gobsmacked that Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney, some of them began to question the information bubble in which they had ensconced themselves. It’s reassuring to think that everything is always going your way, but does it really serve you […]
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Photo of the Day, Traditional Marriage Edition
View image | gettyimages.com 3,500 couples marry in a Unification Church ceremony in South Korea, just as God always intended. No Adam and Steves here, you can bet on that.
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Kicking the Iraq Syndrome On the Way to Tehran
View image | gettyimages.com It’s been an entire 12 years since we started a war, and apparently the American people are getting a little antsy. A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 62 percent of Americans, including 72 percent of Republicans, favors the use of ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. We should […]
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Republicans Still Obsessed With Message-Sending
There was a weird little sidelight to the just-concluded mini-crisis over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which was that the American Action Network, a group allied with John Boehner, was running ads criticizing conservative Republicans for not supporting a clean DHS funding bill, even as Boehner was trying to win them over with […]
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Photo of the Day, Not Buying It Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer listening to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech today. They don’t look particularly impressed.
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Inane Budget Mini-Crisis Comes to Predictable End
View image | gettyimages.com While everyone was getting ready for Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech (you can read my thoughts on that here), John Boehner took the opportunity to capitulate to Democrats: It was all but inevitable, and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) finally cut his losses on Tuesday, telling House Republicans he will allow a vote on […]
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The Latest Clinton Story: Scandal, Nothingburger, Or Something In Between?
View image | gettyimages.com Before we get into the details of the Hillary Clinton email story, note that I’m writing this on Tuesday morning, and with each passing hour the story seems to be getting a little clearer. It may turn out to be significant, or it may turn out to be a big nothing; […]
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Photo of the Day, Special Relationship Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking before the Likud lobby, aka AIPAC. Unfortunately, he didn’t bring his cartoon bomb.
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Mikulski Retiring; Could Donna Edwards Be Her Replacement?
Flickr/AFGE Senator Barbara Mikulski announced today that she will not be running for re-election next year, bringing her 30-year tenure in the Senate to an end. This sets up what could be an interesting race to succeed her. The natural candidate might be Chris Van Hollen, the most high-profile of the state’s House members. But […]
