Photo Credit: BKL This was Obama’s “I did it my way” State of the Union. He had no choice but to go it alone. Not only was Barack Obama the first African-American president, he was the first modern president to face near universal and near unanimous partisan opposition to all his major legislative initiatives. He was […]

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  Photo Credit: The Bush Center In 2005 I was doing a regular Tuesday–Friday commute between Austin and Washington. One of the regulars on the flights was Karen Hughes, a longtime advisor to then-President George W. Bush. At the time, she was commuting to her State Department office, where she was the undersecretary for public […]

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Photo: Jory Heckman Hey yo, so check this out! Yeah! Know your enemy! –Rage Against the Machine   Before he was Speaker, before he grew the Hugh Jackman beard, before we knew he was a Rage Against the Machine fan and that his playlist “starts with AC/DC and ends with Zeppelin,” Paul Ryan was a […]

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  Photo Credit: frankieleon Donald Trump is constantly bemoaning the “War on Christmas” and ripping Starbucks for its plain red cups. “I tell my wife don’t go to those stores, I want to see Christmas,” he told attendees at the 2015 Values Voter Summit. But the Donald is a rhetorical Christian soldier. Real believers take the […]

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photo: Flickr user buen viaje Did the U.S. media miss a big environmental story while the world is focused on Paris? (And the neo-fascism of Donald Trump.) Maybe the biggest single-source climate victory in the past decade. On Monday, Canada’s daily Globe and Mail reported that the Northern Gateway Pipeline is “probably dead.” Nobody outside […]

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