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Shut Down Watch: 1 Day Out
Per the WaPo: “Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday morning that the talks on a fiscal 2011 budget deal foundered over two Republican policy provisions on abortion and the environment and that the negotiators largely agreed to an amount of spending cuts. But House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) disputed that, saying…
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Obama on Libya
The President took the importance of America’s role as world leader and ran with it—as well he should have. His tone was tough and right. The speech itself was about as good as the situation would allow for, but does, nevertheless, warrant some reflection: Questions: -What non-military measures could conceivably drive Gaddafi from power? -If…
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Pump the Brakes Mr. Cillizza, Pump the Brakes
Even for all of its obvious craziness, the world, it would seem, still fails to provide enough talking points to keep everyone in conversation. Thankfully, there are census results—a conversational safe haven for those journalists and bloggers left uninspired by war, revolution, economic catastrophe, and, of course, nuclear meltdown. Divorcing himself from his usually engaging…
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Newt’s Over Anxious Patriotism…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s infidelity now rests in pretty well-trodden territory. Even so, he has recently taken to the air in an effort to explain away some of his more pressing PR problems: “There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked…
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An Email From the Tea Party
As the election season entered its final push, the dueling Colbert-Stewart rallies took on something of a critical gravity. And, as the election fervor finally starts to fade, it seems as if another set of rallies — or, as they’ve been termed, “orientations” — are finding some degree of media traction as well. A pair of freshman congressperson…
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The Bush Tax Cuts and an (Obviously?) Unnecessary Dilemma
That the Bush Tax cuts will be of issue in the upcoming Congressional session is, at this point, all but fate. Lame though the duck might be, it will no doubt have some water to tread on this particular issue. And although the ultimate destiny of Bush’s contributions to the nation’s tax-scheme remains uncertain, the…
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Civilian-Civilian Relations
Earlier this semester, WUPR published an article in which the author spoke at length about the importance of civilian-military relations. The state of the military at large, the author argued, stands to be wholly compromised by antics like those on display in General Stanley McChrystal’s now infamous Rolling Stone interview. And, I think, the author…