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As you may have observed, the Obama administration -- like all administrations -- is pretty disdainful of polling. Speaking at a White House press briefing...
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If you've been unfortunate or needy enough to be aware of the ongoing relationship between the Obama administration and the political media, then you know...
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Due to a combination of factors -- the overwhelming interest in Nevada's Senate race and the unique way in which the Internet can close the...
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All week, I've been discussing how remarkable it is that these WikiLeaks disclosures resulted in a stunning and hitherto unvoiced consensus from the media that the "conventional wisdom" is that the War in Afghanistan is not going well -- and that hearing about it all over again in the form of a document dump...
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Here's a bizarre exchange between CNBC's Erin Burnett and Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) that occurred on the teevee today. It began with this set-up from...
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As already pointed out, the big reveal from WikiLeaks this week was that it got the entire American press to admit that the war in...
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Seems like only a hundred or so days ago that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, causing a massive oil-spill volcano to belch millions of...
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While this week's document dump from WikiLeaks on the war in Afghanistan may objectively contain no blockbuster -- game-changing disclosures in the form of any single document, it still manages to create something extraordinary: an extended period of time in which the media rushed to the cameras to insist that the big story is...
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As we've already seen in Maine, some strange ideas are being folded into the emerging revisions of various state GOP platforms. But something truly bizarre...
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Earlier today, Politico's Roger Simon reported that Chuck Todd told him that he had been "kept...up nights" by the War in Afghanistan the massive unemployment...
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