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Identity Politics in 1960

Source: Slate, Nov 22 2012, 6:06am CST

On Election Day 1960, the Kennedys gathered at the family’s compound on Cape Cod, Hyannis Port, Mass. “People filtered in throughout the afternoon and evening,” Ted Sorensen recalled in his memoirs. “We dined on Maryland crabs and then found co ...

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GOP Shouldn’t Use “The ‘I’ Word”

Source: Town Hall  |   May 21 2013, 11:20pm CDT

A version of this column appeared first in USA TODAY. As new revelations underscore the administration's epic incompetence in its handling of the Benghazi disaster and IRS abuses, some Republican voices in the House a ...

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Americans should remember: Politicizing the IRS is a bipartisan tradition

Source: Christian Science Monitor  |   May 21 2013, 10:12am CDT

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee said last week that it did. So did a host of other GOP critics, who linked the recent targeting of conservative groups by the IRS to Nixon’s use of the agency as a weapon a ...

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25 weeks ago


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"I am sorry to say ... I am less in the mood than ever to ‘straighten the matter.’ I am not like my older son who makes up to the people who attack him. When I have a bad experience, I remember it forever. It is very bad, I realize, and I know that I should be more charitable in my old age, but I seem to get worse instead of better."


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He’s No Nixon

Source: The Weekly Standard  |   May 21 2013, 7:11am CDT

The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, "Richard Milhous Obama," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to acknowledge. The estimabl ...

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Dems strike back at GOP voting measures

Source: Daily Camera  |   May 20 2013, 11:39pm CDT

DENVER -- In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. FILE - In ...

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Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures

Source: WVEC.com  |   May 20 2013, 12:33pm CDT

DENVER (AP) — In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. It's the l ...

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3 days ago

Watergate looms as Obama hurts his own cause: analysis

Source: PennLive.com  |   May 18 2013, 6:04am CDT

The grit, tenacity, and unmitigated nerve imprinted in the DNA of most elected chief executives rarely - if ever - allows them to admit a mistake, or take responsibility for independent actions taken under their authority. When the mea culpa ...

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4 days ago

Two presidents, one bad comparison

Source: MSNBC Blogs  |   May 17 2013, 2:49pm CDT

I honestly think the modern GOP has no idea what Watergate actually was. Like the Dubya administration, they've scrubbed it (and anything else negative about their party) from their memories. They just know it's something bad that a president did ...

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5 days ago

The Kennedys Are From Chicago, Too

Source: ChicagoMag.com  |   May 16 2013, 1:59pm CDT

In Chicago, on September 26, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon squared off in the first-ever televised presidential debate. Joseph Kennedy (1888-1969) The patriarchal Boston-reared businessman created a tr ...

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Five Voting Fights You’ll Care About Come Election Time

Source: The American Prospect  |   May 16 2013, 7:55am CDT

Remember last year when we all cared about voting policies? Back then, newspapers were filled with updates on different states’ legal battles over strict voter ID—the laws that require photo identification to cast a ballot. Republicans pushed the ...

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