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Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Terrorism, Gays in Military
Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?- Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
'Snowmageddon' in D.C. -- The Politics, Talk Shows and Snowball Fights Go On
Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin
California Governor Race: Whitman Campaign Email Pressures Poizner to Quit
By Andrew Clark
The Republican primary battle between eBay millionaire Meg Whitman and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner for California's governorship has taken a sharp, dramatic turn -- Poizner claims that Whitman's campaign has improperly pressured him to get out of the race. On Monday, Poizner's campaign distributed to reporters an email (download it here) that Poizner pollster Jan van Lohuizen received from Whitman adviser Mike Murphy. In the email, which was reportedly part of an ongoing series, Murphy urges Lohuizen to get Poizner to drop out: Is there anything we can do to get SP to ...
Hillary Clinton Not Seeking Second Secretary of State Term: Is Private Life Next?
By Andrew Clark
People don't often make headlines for things they aren't doing. Yet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made news Thursday after telling PBS's Tavis Smiley in an interview that she did not see herself serving as head of the State Department should Barack Obama be elected to a second term. "No, I really can't," she said. "The whole eight (years), I mean that would be very challenging. But I... don't want to make any predictions sitting here." Last October, Clinton found herself in the headlines when she ruled out the New York races for governor and senator. She has also dismissed another run for ...
Obama's Risky Plan: Government Takeover of the Student Loan Business
By Andrew Clark
All of the noise-making caused by the health-care-reform effort and the political uncertainty now surrounding Obama's liberal agenda has allowed one item on that agenda to pass swiftly and smoothly under the radar -- his plan to nationalize the entire student loan process. Unfortunately, the plan is too risky for the economy. The White House initially thought the plan would face stiff resistance and launch a contentious and hard-fought ideological battle in Congress. "After all," wrote Time Magazine in September, "the Administration's proposal to restructure the student-loan industry is, in ...
Internet Freedom Battle: Hillary Clinton's Policy Speech, Google's Stand in China
By Andrew Clark
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered Thursday what has been described as a first-of-its-kind, historic speech detailing U.S. policy toward Internet freedom around the world. This was in response to Google's recent announcement that it has plans to end all censorship filters on its search engines in China -- and may even consider withdrawing from the country's market altogether -- in response to a cyber-attack on the Gmail (Google's e-mail service) accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Clinton spelled out American policy in plain terms: "We stand for a single Internet where all ...
Massachusetts Special Election: A Mandate on Health Care Reform?
By Andrew Clark
It's fitting that the Massachusetts special election to replace late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy on Jan. 19 (read Jill Lawrence's coverage of the race here) will intersect almost perfectly with the next Senate vote on the revised health care reform bill. If any state knows health care, it's the Bay State, which passed its own landmark health care reform bill in 2006. Indeed, the two events are so close together that Republican candidate Scott Brown has built his campaign around the premise that he will be the "41st senator" to stop health care reform in its tracks and "force the Democrats to ...
Enough With Lament: Why This Decade Should Be Celebrated
By Andrew Clark
Now that the eve of a new decade is upon us, the pundits are looking back at the 2000s, and they're judging it a train wreck. Time Magazine heralded the goodbye to the Decade From Hell, calling it the "most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post-World War II era," going so far as to create a slide show titled "The 10 Worst Things About the Worst Decade Ever." In a clever wordplay, the Washington Post lamented that the decade should not be called the Aughts, but the "Oughts," in memoriam of all the achievements that "ought" to have happened in the 2000s, ...
To California Student Protesters: Why Target the Regents?
By Andrew Clark
I have to ask: what, exactly, is the goal of the various University of California student protest movements and their vocal campaigns criticizing the regents' decision to hike tuition? It's true the UC system has been one of the biggest victims in California's budget nightmare. As a result of a $26-billion budget shortfall, the Democrats in the state legislature and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted what the University of California has called "unprecedented state budget cuts of $814 million in 2008-09 and $637 million in 2009-10." It's also true that students have been ...
A Final Word On NY-23
By Andrew Clark
Rarely has a special-election for a congressional seat attracted so much media attention, drama and money. NY-23, a largely rural congressional district in upstate New York bordering Canada, has been a Republican stronghold for well over 100 years, yet last Tuesday it voted in a Democratic congressman, Bill Owens. The final results gave Owens 49 percent of the vote to Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman's 45 percent. The Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out of the race just before the election and then endorsed Owens, claimed 5 percent. The pundits have exploded trying to ...
Obama's Blue Tide in Virginia: Aberration or Trend?
By Andrew Clark
A year ago Tuesday, President Obama made history as the first African-American elected to the White House. He also made history by re-defining the electoral map, most notably in Virginia, a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat since 1964. Since then, pundits have been debating whether the Democratic sweep of 2008 was a re-aligning of America into a more-permanent Democratic majority -- as argued in a new book, The Emerging Democratic Majority by Ruy Teixeira and John Judis -- or an aberration unique to Barack Obama and the political climate. Indeed, a new poll out by Gallup this week has ...
Michelle Obama Pledge Ruffles Feathers at GW University
By Andrew Clark
This year, Christmas came early for George Washington University's politically active campus. Commencement speaker announcements always kick up firestorms of controversy, as some students find their invited speaker to be too liberal or too conservative, too radical or too reactionary -- or just too darn disagreeable -- for the student body to handle. Most university students are fairly seasoned with the resulting political drama, and dismiss it as just political posturing -- yet, they don't expect to hear the calls of controversy and bias until March, or perhaps April. So when GWU's school ...
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