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Walter Shapiro says yes: under Republican winner-take-all rules, a candidate with 35% backing can go all the way.
Archive for November, 2009
November 15th, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control, Watching Conservatives
Closing Gitmo would improve national security. Guess which party is against it?
November 15th, 2009
Category: Abortion, Health Care
The RNC is dropping abortion coverage from hits heath insurance. Is that saving them any money?
November 14th, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington, Uncategorized
A lobbyist for Roche wrote large passages in statements of a bunch of Congressmen on the health care bill. And the Congressmen, including Joe “You Lie!” Wilson, were too lazy even to change the language so that it might look like they were thinking for themselves.
November 14th, 2009
Category: History
It turns out that studying the reign of Edward I allowed Hume to forsee the history of Bush the Lesser: That neglect, almost total, of truth and justice, which sovereign states discover in their transactions with each other, is an evil universal and inveterate; is one great source of the misery to which the human [...]
November 13th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
David Alpert proposes making parking collections more like taxes and less like a negative lottery.
November 13th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
He wants me to be horrified that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is to receive an American trial in an American courtroom, just like the show trials held by third-world kleptocratic totalitarian regimes.
November 12th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
That seems to Obama’s response to the Afghan option his advisers offered him.