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Archive of Articles for January, 2014

Obama Poll Watch -- December, 2013

[ Posted Monday, January 6th, 2014 – 18:55 UTC ]

President Obama had a pretty significant month in the polls, which might come as a surprise if all you've been listening to is the conventional wisdom in Washington (which has been happily parroting "Obama's polling is in free-fall!" all month long). In fact, what happened this month was that Obama stopped sliding downwards in the polls, and began actually recovering a bit of the ground he's lost since the disastrous Obamacare website launch at the beginning of October. What's more, Obama looks pretty good to continue this recovery for at least the next month or two. Which, as I said, might just come as a surprise to some.

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Program Note

[ Posted Friday, January 3rd, 2014 – 18:47 UTC ]

There will be no column today, sorry. I have been laid low by the flu, and can barely stay awake for a half an hour at a time. I really did plan on writing something today, but this has proven impossible. Hopefully I will be recovered enough by Monday to resume regular [...]

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The 2014 Banished Words List, On Steroids

[ Posted Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 – 17:12 UTC ]

It's that time of year again -- time to check the Lake Superior State University's annual list of "banished words." Or, perhaps, a "back to twerk" column.

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