Archive for February, 2016
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The Artful Smear
Posted on February 5, 2016
“She is pink, right down to her underwear.” That’s what Richard Nixon accused Helen Gaughan Thomas of in the battle for California’s Senate seat in 1950. ”Are you aware that...
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Exposé: FAA’s “NextGen” Program Trumps Previous Cases of Government Malfeasance
Posted on February 5, 2016
(Originally published on The Common Trust.) by Brian Robertson and Rob Wasinger Struggling to understand the Trump phenomenon has become a full time job for many members of the GOP...
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Experience Doesn’t Seem to Matter (But Maybe It Should)
Posted on February 4, 2016
It used to be that voters would pick Governors over Senators in Presidential races. Governors had executive experience, went the theory. That practical experience made them better leaders, more rational...
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Moon Shots and the Unacknowledged Hard Work of the Congress
Posted on February 3, 2016
While the President announced his “moon shot” to cure cancer from the Speaker’s Rostrum overlooking the United States House of Representatives, he might as well been speaking from an alternative...
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7 lessons from 2016
Posted on February 2, 2016
(Originally published on The Hill.) I should have listened to my mother. Mom has been warning me about this election for a year now. People are fed up, she says....
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