[ Posted Monday, May 2nd, 2016 – 17:05 UTC ]
Just to warn everyone up front, today's column is essentially nothing more than a "clip show." Television series use this motif whenever they get lazy, because it involves very little writing and filming, because the bulk of the episode is merely clips from previous episodes. Today, I'm offering up my own clip show as a retrospective for how we all got to where we stand today -- on the brink of Donald Trump essentially wrapping up the Republican nomination for the highest office in the land.
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[ Posted Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 – 17:25 UTC ]
During his presidency, every year that Barack Obama's job approval rating has gone up in January, he has followed it up with an increase in February. This year was no different. After impressive gains to start the year off, Obama followed up with smaller (but still substantial) gains in February. As with last month, this is clearly visible on the new chart.
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[ Posted Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 – 19:49 UTC ]
Has it really been a year already? My, how time flies! Of course, this time of year, everyone's running around like crazy trying to get everything done. Which brings us to our first shameless segue to our traditional year-end parade of adorable Christmas kittens, craftily designed (as always) to soften hearts and open wallets for our pledge drive. You have been warned, so there.
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[ Posted Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 – 16:31 UTC ]
It is with a very heavy heart I write today, as we have lost a beloved member of our editorial staff here at ChrisWeigant.com headquarters. Here she is in happier times, supervising the writing process.
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[ Posted Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 – 11:12 UTC ]
There will be no column today. However, there's a fun reason why I'll be too busy to write: later today I will be appearing in a HuffPost Live conversation, about tonight's upcoming Republican presidential debate. I'm not sure exactly when the panel will appear (some time around 5:00 PM East Coast time), but [...]
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[ Posted Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 – 16:55 UTC ]
Christmas came early for Paul Ryan this year. John Boehner just handed him a big present, in the form of a budget and debt ceiling agreement which will last until the next president is in office. This, if it passes, means the days of Republicans threatening Barack Obama with shutdowns and defaults are finally over. Which is why it's such a large gift to Ryan, because it assures him that he won't be forced into letting the Tea Partiers play their hostage-taking games until at least after the next election. All the Tea Party loathing for the deal can be laid at the outgoing speaker's feet, leaving Ryan unscathed as he enters the job of leading the House of Representatives.
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[ Posted Thursday, October 1st, 2015 – 19:32 UTC ]
No column today. Airport runs and family responsibilities, sorry.
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[ Posted Monday, September 7th, 2015 – 21:15 UTC ]
There will be no column today, as I played hooky and enjoyed myself instead. Hope everyone else had a happy Labor Day! New columns will resume tomorrow.
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[ Posted Thursday, August 6th, 2015 – 15:54 UTC ]
There will be no column today. I'm going to become just a consumer of politics today, because there's so much going on, with the two Republican debates. I thought about commenting on just the first one (the "kid's table" debate), but instead of offering up snap reactions this time I'm going to let [...]
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[ Posted Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 – 16:28 UTC ]
No new column today, sorry. I had planned a biography column on Rick Perry, but somehow failed to work up the energy to write it (I'll get it written in the next day or two, promise). Instead, I am going to attempt to work through the backlog of answering your comments from the [...]
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