Toronto The rhetorical devices that former CNN and NBC news-person, Campbell Brown, is using in what now seems like a tryout for an op-ed column in the New York Times, are very smart and almost personal in a clever, conservative “cover-your-bases” way. Yesterday’s piece was essentially an attack on Planned Parenthood in the guise of …
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Big Money Buying Elections as Republicans Uniting on Anti-Union Animus
New Orleans Billionaire Vegas and global casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s 11th hour $5 million contribution to a Super PAC to try to save Newt Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican nomination for US President should become a case study in the influence peddling now allowed by the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision. Any pretense that politicians …
Republican Mansions by the Sea
New Orleans You get the feeling that the popular Republican political embrace of “servant” leadership is more like a simple handshake or an air kiss than a full pressure bear hug. Too many of them seem to be saying, well “me first” and then, hey, if I have time, I might squeeze in a couple …