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Take Five (Dave Brubeck memorial edition)
ONE: Alle Menschen werden Brüder… Suffused with bipartisan good vibes, Republicans greeted Barack Obama’s re-election with smiles and outstretched hands… firmly withheld. Grapes actually don’t get any...
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Take Five (The Wrong Remains the Same edition)
ONE: “What part of ‘second’ don’t you understand?” Did you daydream that Republicans would accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s renewed mandate and resolve to be a little more cooperative? That...
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Take Five (Busyness as Usual edition)
ONE: Brainy Nights in Georgia In the wake of the Newtown massacre and other recent mass gun murders, the NRA helpfully busied itself with supporting secession for Wisconsin, decrying the “vicious,...
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Take Five (CPAC Up Your Troubles edition)
ONE: Middle Age Queasy The Conservative Political Action Conference turns 40 this year, but don’t expect maturity from a gathering where the speakers include Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Artur Davis, Dick...
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Take Five (Really, Really, Really Fuzzy Math edition)
ONE: Misunderestimations This week marked the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, illegal as in fraudulently undertaken, thereby invalidating any supposed sanction previously conferred...
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Take Five (Iron Lady Down edition)
ONE: The 5.8-Percent Solution Who better to eulogize the execrable Margaret Thatcher than the abysmal Sarah Palin? And so she has, in 1,002 suspiciously articulate words that appeared under Palin’s...
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Take Five (Woe Is Us edition)
ONE: ZOMG? Really? Heavens to Betsy Ross! Another Obama Administration… uh… scandal. The NSA has been metadata harvesting. Of course, they’ve been doing so for years, with Congressional oversight and...
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Take Five (The Anger Games edition)
ONE: Party Scooper? Sarah Palin has managed to turn feigned anger into a pretty damned lucrative pseudo-career. Now on her second stint with Fox News and coming off a headlining appearance at the Faith...
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Stormy Monday, 10/14/13
Can Wall Street talk sense to Congressional Republicans? It’s a trick question, of course; nobody can talk sense to Congressional Republicans. Still, all eyes will be on the financial markets Monday as...
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Take Five (Odds & Sods edition)
ONE: Season of the Which? “Silly season” used to refer to a specific time of year when substantive news was temporarily replaced with outsized coverage of trivial events, quirky happenings, fluff, and...
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Stormy Monday, 8/18/14
At the behest of Attorney General Eric Holder, the body of Michael Brown will be autopsied for a third time this week as federal and state investigations into his fatal shooting by police officer...
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Stormy Monday, 9/22/14
The Secret Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility will undertake a procedural review following Friday’s disquieting incident involving a knife-carrying man jumping the fence and actually...
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A Good Year for the Poses
The 2014 Values Voter Summit wrapped up Sunday in Washington, and Omni Shoreham Hotel staff must be working hard to expunge the building of the heavy stench of gunpowder and cliché. Like previous...
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Time Mismanagement
Republicans, unconcerned with progress or sensible public policy, have plenty of free time to devote to other pursuits. Like feigning outrage. For that, and only for that, Barack Obama has been their...
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