Archive for the ‘GOP’ Category
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Playing Politics With Ferguson
Posted on September 2, 2014
In the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, race riots convulsed the country. Chicago, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Louisville endured the worst of it. Almost 50...
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Portman’s Possible Run Fills Gap In GOP Field
Posted on August 29, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Jeb Bush is probably not running. Neither is Mitt Romney. Chris Christie is trying to hard to recover from Bridge-gate but that...
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The Passing of Jim Jeffords
Posted on August 19, 2014
In the opening months of the 107th Congress, with the House firmly in Republican hands but the Senate tied fifty-fifty, rumors started flying. Was somebody going to switch parties to...
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How to Appeal to the Suburban Revolutionaries
Posted on August 11, 2014
It used to be that the Republican Party had a problem with suburban voters on the left. The social conservatism of the evangelical wing, with its focus on abortion, used...
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Boehner’s Blunder or Barack’s Brush-Back
Posted on July 11, 2014
If I were a constitutional lawyer, I would find Speaker of the House John Boehner’s impending lawsuit against President Obama completely fascinating. I am not a lawyer, so I can’t...
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