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The Death of Dog-Whistle Politics

In today’s media environment, every message you send to your base gets heard by everyone. That’s a problem for the GOP.

It appears that those who talk so much about “economic freedom” aren’t too happy when ordinary people have more choices.

Some employers are defending their cuts to employee wages and benefits by blaming the Obamacare bogeyman. That’s just plain hogwash.

Should we care if a senator doesn’t own a home in his home state?

The NYPD is figuring out what it can do with Google Glass. Eventually, cops everywhere will have something like it.

There are plenty of reasons you might not want to vote for Hillary Clinton, but being “tired” of her is about the worst.

Everybody says they’re going to change the way business is done if they get elected, and nobody ever does.

If you’re Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi, another fight over the debt ceiling actually looks like a great idea.

Every little thing anybody associated with him is being scrutinized. But that’s the price of playing in the big leagues.