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PBS's Moyers: Forget Compromise on ObamaCare, Defeat Would 'Reinvigorate' Democratic Party

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:48:08 +0000

Jeff Poor

Who needs to make health care Barack Obama’s Waterloo, as Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. suggested? Why not make it the president’s Alamo?

Bias In Specter-Scope

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:57:37 +0000

The other day, when Specter's pollster apparently told him he was going to lose to Toomey in a rematch, he promptly chucked that blather about his courage and conviction and narrowed his thinking to clout. In desperation, he switched to the Democratic Party.

L. Brent Bozell III

When Sen. Arlen Specter ran in a contentious primary against conservative congressman Pat Toomey in 2004, his slogan was "Courage, Clout, Conviction." The other day, when Specter's pollster apparently told him he was going to lose to Toomey in a rematch, he promptly chucked that blather about his courage and conviction and narrowed his thinking to clout. In desperation, he switched to the Democratic Party.

Ellen to Wed Portia; What about DOMA?

admin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe

Here are two seemingly unrelated facts:

1. Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and her girlfriend Portia de Rossi will get married in California this weekend.

2. One of the platform planks for the Democrats at this year's convention includes language to repeal DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.

McGovern Criticizes News 'Saturation' of Democratic Primary

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:40:54 +0000

Jeff Poor

Although he didn’t have a winning track record in presidential elections, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee and former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern had no problem critiquing the media for lack of substance.

Edwards Affair Rules the News Cycle for Three Days

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Kristen Fyfe

John Edwards probably hoped his broadcast mea culpa – the public apology for his extramarital affair on ABC's August 8th Nightline – would get buried in the hype of the opening ceremonies of the 29^th Olympiad. But that's not the way the Internet-dominated news cycle works.

As soon as ABC News announced that Edwards had confessed to infidelity, the story was headline fodder, leading the Drudge Report and no doubt wreaking havoc in news rooms around the country.