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High principle lives on

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

 Back in the 60s, I used to watch a TV series called The Defenders, about a father-son team of defense lawyers. I remember in one show the father quoted an aphorism to his son to the effect that it was better that 1000 guilty men go free rather than one innocent man be convicted. Of […]

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Rethinking the Romney meme

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

It’s been conventional wisdom for quite a while that Romney, mass of warts and all, is nonetheless the strongest candidate the Republicans have for the general election. I bought into that, and while I’m not quite ready to declare outright apostasy, I think the argument is losing a lot of its force awful fast. Newt […]

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Scotty Walker writes to my wife

Monday, January 23, 2012

Somehow, and no matter how it was, it was she did nothing to deserve it, my wife has ended up on a right wing mailing list. It first started with Sharon Angle (remember her?) and as these things will, it has metastasized until just about every right wing organization is writing to her. She normally […]

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Buchanan exits, stage right

Monday, January 9, 2012

John Aravosis at Americablog notes that Pat Buchanan appears to have been (silently) dropped by MSNBC. All to the good. Aravosis gives this example of Buchanan’s only slightly coded racism.    For what is a nation?Is it not a people of a common ancestry, culture, and language who worship the same God, revere the same […]

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Newt disobeys Reagan

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

There is one and only one unbreakable commandment in the Republican party: Thou shalt love Ronald Reagan as thou lovest Jesus. Indeed, thou shalt love him so much that thou shall refuse to believe that he did anything with which you purport to disagree, such as raising taxes, no matter that the facts are indisputable […]

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Republicans may have obliterated the enthusiasm gap

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A few days ago I noted that the big question in the election was which side was the most dispirited. I said I thought it would be the Republicans, and it looks like it may turn out that way. As Steve Benen notes total turnout for Republicans only slightly exceeded turnout in 2008, when they […]

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Iowa Caucuses

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Who cares?

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Who’s on this A team you speak of?

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Steve Benen reports that Bill Kristol is still casting about for late entries into the Presidential sweepstakes, and apparently Kristol’s not the only one:   This comes, by the way, a day after National Review’s Rich Lowry ran a piece quoting “a pretty prominent conservative officeholder,” who conceded that when it comes to the Republican […]

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I Pledge Allegiance…to anyone who asks

Monday, December 12, 2011

We learn here that Newt Gingrich just pledged to never ever commit adultery, among other things. Luckily, for him at least, he was not required to affirm that he had never ever committed adultery, but as the article at the link points out, this is still at least the fourth time he’s taken such a […]

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Thinking about flip flops

Monday, November 28, 2011

Yet another article documenting yet another flip from Romney, this time on immigration. It occurs to me that Romney’s history of flip-flops, in a way, documents the insanification (that word is copyright me, by the way, and is patent pending. Might not be as good as truthiness, but it gets the point across) of the […]

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