[ Posted Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 – 16:39 UTC ]
Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus is in the news this week, for his "autopsy" report on the Republican Party in the 2012 election. Priebus and a few other hardy Republican souls took months to examine what went wrong for the party, and what should be done to set things right for the next time around. Their prescription for change, unfortunately, is to change how their message is delivered rather than to change much in the way of Republican policies. I'm certainly not the first to point this out, but this idea works out to exactly the same as what you are left with when you remove the vowels from the national party chairman's name: RNC PR BS.
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[ Posted Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 – 21:29 UTC ]
OK, so I played hooky today. Instead of writing a column, I went and did something fun with my wife. But I thought I'd at least share with you folks what I was doing.
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[ Posted Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 – 18:17 UTC ]
I'd like to welcome everyone to the first annual Pentagon bake sale. This event was made necessary, of course, because Congress pulled the "trigger" on cutting a half a trillion dollars of the Pentagon's budget over the next ten years. [audible booing from crowd] We all know the Pentagon simply cannot accept this slower rate of the growth of their budget, which in the same period is going to total at least six or seven trillion dollars -- and more, if we have anything to say about it! [loud applause]
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[ Posted Thursday, February 21st, 2013 – 17:54 UTC ]
Are Americans getting to the point where they've got "crisis fatigue" and just want to shut out the neverending economic hostage-taking in Washington? I have to admit, I don't have the answer to that question, which means that this is likely going to be a very short column.
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[ Posted Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 – 17:21 UTC ]
So, Karl, how does it feel to face the extremists in your own party?
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[ Posted Monday, February 18th, 2013 – 16:52 UTC ]
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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[ Posted Thursday, February 14th, 2013 – 16:28 UTC ]
I got an extraordinary amount of very well-thought-out answers from you folks, some of which I agreed with and some of which I did not. But rather than answer points in the comments, I decided the best way to enter the conversation was to just post my answers, as I sent them off. So here is the second part of last week's column. These are my "separation of powers" answers.
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[ Posted Thursday, February 7th, 2013 – 17:21 UTC ]
This is a reader-participation sort of a column. In fact, it's not really a column at all, instead just trolling for comments from you folks. Just to warn everyone up front.
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[ Posted Monday, February 4th, 2013 – 17:42 UTC ]
It is the Monday after the Super Bowl, so to use an apt football metaphor, I am going to punt on today's column.
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[ Posted Friday, February 1st, 2013 – 18:48 UTC ]
We seem to have a gang problem on Capitol Hill once again.
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