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The Three Faces of the GOP

Watching the various Republican responses — official and otherwise — to President Obama's State of the Union address was a bit like watching a right-wing remake of The Three Faces of Eve, the 1957 classic about a woman who suffered from "multiple...

Washington's Post-Fact Press Corps

  Politico today features a story by Jennifer Epstein detailing 10 proposals from Obama’s previous State of the Union addresses that were mostly frustrated.   The report begins with an utter distortion that is nearly universal in Washington reporting: “Perhaps...

The Central Economic Problems Of Our Time: Ideological Fools

Here it is, in living color: Previewing his speech for The Weekly Standard’s Stephen F. Hayes, Rubio said he would make the case that the national debt “has a direct impact on unemployment” and that it is hurting job growth: “The debt has a direct impact on...

The SOTU of Our Dreams

Bill Moyers asked a bunch of smart people what they would like to see the President say in the State of the Union address this year. Their answers are all good and I urge you to read them. if we could put them all together it would make a hell of a speech. The one...

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