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Promised Land of Dreadful Optics

on May 18, 2018
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Perhaps this one is a little “inside baseball,” but I take some issue with a column that Thane Rosenbaum wrote for CNN this past week.

Speaker of the House

on April 12, 2018
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With the news that Paul Ryan is retiring, James K. Polk, the only president to have previously served as Speaker of the House, has been on my mind. Researching this one was a lot of fun, and I thank both[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…