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The Impolitic: Your moment of Zen
Loretta Young, 1931 edition. [graphic via] ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 11:31pm -07:00T (7 words)
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The Impolitic: Obama redefines the war on terror
President Obama gave a foreign policy speech this afternoon. Do yourself a favor. Read the whole speech before you read any of the instant punditry and take it as gospel. If you're out of free reads at the NYT, Booman has it and he also has one of the mor...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:16pm -07:00T (498 words)
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The Impolitic: Scandals unite House GOP
Scandalmania has been very good for GOP unity. All Republicans agree what's bad for Obama is very good for them. And Mr. Boehner has been kind enough to only bring the kind of bills to the floor that give the crazy conservatives opportunites to prove thei...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 1:31pm -07:00T (147 words)
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The Impolitic: Mitch McConnell spins the scandals
Gotta give him some credit for wringing the most value out of pseudoscandal. Taking to the WaPo op-ed page, Mitch McConnell sees an opportunity to quash big money donor disclosure: [R]ecent efforts to revive the so-called Disclose Act suggest that these ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 12:16pm -07:00T (267 words)
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The Impolitic: Your moment of Zen
The art of coffee. [photo via] ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 11:01pm -07:00T (8 words)
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The Impolitic: Moose on the loose
This video was taken in Easthampton, MA. Not the first time I've heard of an in-town moose sighting in the Happy Valley. Seems about every spring a confused youngun' would wander into the city. Never happened in my neighborhood sadly. This however is the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:01pm -07:00T (59 words)
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The Impolitic: Fiscal conservatives are killing us
It's always useful to remember budgets are only political documents. They're a rhetorical weapon of mass deception. Appropriations are the real deal. And more proof that the GOP really doesn't give a flying leap about budgets, even as they now refuse to g...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 4:46pm -07:00T (285 words)
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The Impolitic: Ted Cruz don't trust nobody but himself
You'll recall the House GOP passed a ridiculous budget based on Paul Ryan's roadmap to ruin back in March knowing full well it had zero chance of survival. Boehner thought he was being very clever with this pass the buck manuver. The GOPers immediately la...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 2:31pm -07:00T (312 words)
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The Impolitic: Just do it!
By Capt. FoggPerhaps Fred Phelps Jr. is getting slow, or perhaps he has to type with one hand because he's so exited at God's wrath being inflicted on Moore, Oklahoma. The very thought of little children being crushed or torn to pieces as they scream ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:16am -07:00T (358 words)
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The Impolitic: Your moment of Zen
Happy face orchids. [photo via] ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:31pm -07:00T (6 words)
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The Impolitic: War on Christmas 2013
Great news for public school kids jammed into overcrowded classrooms in falling apart buildings with outdated textbooks and underpaid teachers. They can't have art or music classes, or play sports unless they can afford the fees but by golly in the great ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:31pm -07:00T (89 words)
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The Impolitic: Kill the filibuster before it kills us
I'm one of the last holdouts on this. I've argued for years that we should keep the filibuster to protect the Senate minority. But that was before the entire Republican party's brains melted before our eyes. Now convinced Paul Waldman is right. The crack...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 5:16pm -07:00T (114 words)
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The Impolitic: Tea Party launches lawsuit against IRS
This is too precious. The biggest grifter born of the original Tea Party uprising is suing the IRS for making them wait too long and work too hard to get their for tax-exempt status. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, the NorCal Te...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:01pm -07:00T (339 words)
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The Impolitic: President Obama, cool, calm, collected
Some insights from former speechwriter Jon Favreau, on how President Obama deals with media driven scandals. Worth a read in full, but here's the standout grafs: In the case of the AP phone records, Obama the former constitutional-law professor cares de...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (309 words)
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The Impolitic: Your moment of Zen
Lovely downtown Northampton, MA. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (5 words)
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