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.
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Daily Meme: A Brief History of Presidential Groveling
Art history majors, relax. The president doesn’t think that you should chuck your books on contemporary color theory and go take a course in carpentry. In late January, Obama told a crowd at a factory in Wisconsin that people could make more money with skills in manufacturing than an art history degree. Yesterday, Obama ate […]
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The Good War, Now Not So Good
For the first time, a plurality of Americans think invading Afghanistan was a mistake.
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Why Can’t You Miserable Commoners Be Happier With Your Lot?
One man is brave enough to advocate for giving the rich more political power.
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Conversations with My Mother
Crossing the political divide within the family unit.
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Daily Meme: White Men with Money—The Story of the 2014 Midterms
Since 2014 is already two months in and the November elections only a short nine months away, we figured a brush-up on where all the money will be coming from is in order. As you might have guessed, this will mostly be a list of wealthy white men. Enjoy! As Kermit the Frog once crooned, […]
