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Mixed messages

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

If you’ve ever given money to a political campaign-even one-then like me you are probably getting about thirty fundraising emails a day. Clearly, based on what I get, people’s respond to different messages. Consider the subject lines in emails I received one after the other: NOTHING CAN STOP US (all caps in original) We risk […]

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Why, oh why?

Monday, October 15, 2012

Okay, I just bailed on the Murphy-McMahon debate. I can’t take it anymore. I have a simple question I would like to ask all Democratic candidates. When asked about social security or Medicare, every Republican candidate responds with some variant of the claim that he or she will not cut benefits for those saintly seniors […]

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About the Debate

Thursday, October 4, 2012

I turned it off about 15 minutes before it was over. It’s no news that Romney lied about his “program”. The really irritating, though not unexpected thing, is how the debate was solely concerned with the obsessions of the Very Serious People in the Beltway: cutting benefits and the deficit. Unemployment is still high, but […]

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Meandering

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A few observations about the campaign, and it is entirely coincidental that I am linking to a couple of stories from the Globe written by an excellent young reporter who shares my last name and half my genes. And it really is coincidental, sort of. First, a lot has been written about Romney’s lack of…how […]

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Something sane happens

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Amazon is going to have to start paying sales taxes to the State of California. Apparently, at least for the moment, other states need not apply, though Amazon’s aspirations to achieve same day delivery (which implies distribution centers almost everywhere. ) seem to bode ill for any continued legal basis to justify Amazon’s exemption from […]

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Rightward drift

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Eduardo Porter of the New York Times takes notes of the rightward drift in the location of our political center: Interestingly, Americans say their political ideology has changed little since the late 1970s. The share of voters who defined themselves as liberal was 20 percent in 2010, up slightly from 19 percent in 1980, according […]

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The Ryan Pick: A gift from the gods

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Romney has grooved a fastball right over the middle of the plate. The question is, will the Democrats smash it out of the park, or pop it up? I agree the Ryan choice is all about nailing down the right-wing base, and that Romney is still not sure of their support. I'm also sure that […]

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I’m with Harry

Friday, August 10, 2012

I have to take issue with Kevin Drum, who believes Harry Reid is, let us say, stretching the truth in his charges about Romney’s taxes: Politically, of course, Reid’s ploy has worked like a charm. Romney’s taxes are back in the news and Romney’s ham-handed handling of the whole affair has kept it there. And […]

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Obama’s gambit

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

  According to Ed Kilgore at Political Animal, there’s a conservative number cruncher who doesn’t see Obama’s move on immigration as being all that much of a game changer, given that Hispanic voters are only truly significant in two tossup states, Nevada and Arizona: Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics (a conservative numbers-cruncher whom I […]

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Solidarity, Brother!

Friday, June 8, 2012

  Private sector Unions in New York join with business interests and DINO Andrew Cuomo to destroy public sector unions. What do they think those folks will do once they succeed with state workers? Maybe they ought to listen a little closer to Scott Walker.  

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