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Luther Martin

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: July 8, 2019

On July 8, 1839, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born. On this same date in 1907, businessman and politician George W. Romney was born. Died on this date, American founding politician, Luther Martin [pictured], in 1826. Martin is famed among founding fathers for refusing to sign the U.S. Constitution,…

Great & Powerful Teleprompter

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: September 6, 2012

There’s a man behind a curtain somewhere doing whatever one does to a teleprompter. Load? Arm? Detonate? Last week, in Tampa, a Republican teleprompter put words into the mouth of Speaker of the House John Boehner, then chairing the convention, specifically these words: “In the opinion of the chair, the…

Alfred Nobel Rolls Over

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: October 16, 2012

The Nobel Committee, having whetted its appetite for absurdity with a long string of goofy Peace Prize Awards, especially but not limited to the 2009 award for Barack Obama (who had done nothing but get elected to earn it), went all the way by giving the 2012 award to the…

Breaking the Jell-O Mold

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: March 24, 2023

American politics has become amazingly “gerontocratic.”  Congress is run by really old people, the faces of the Supreme Court Justices are as wrinkled as the Constitution they allegedly serve, and the oldest U.S. president in our history is a Silent Generation stumbler with one foot in the grave and the…

Ron Paul Switches Gears

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: May 16, 2012

The day before the official debut of Brian Doherty’s Ron Paul’s Revolution — the new book on the man, his crusade and his many enthusiastic supporters — Ron Paul slipped his 2012 presidential campaign into neutral: Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to…

Luther Martin

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: July 8, 2021

Died on this date, American founding politician, Luther Martin [pictured], in 1826. Martin is famed among founding fathers for refusing to sign the U.S. Constitution, seeing the new compact as unduly centralizing and nationalistic. On July 8, 1839, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born. On this same date in…

#NeverTrump Red Herring

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: June 1, 2016

Neoconservative writer Bill Kristol doesn’t like the prospect of Donald Trump running as the Republican presidential candidate this year. And Kristol’s not just going to talk about it. He’s trying to get something done. But instead of doing the rational thing and lobbying each and every delegate to the Republican…

“Our Agenda Was Common Sense”

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: February 14, 2018

The Republican Party doesn’t need to bury the corpse. Its victim has been assimilated, like the Borg did with alien peoples in the Star Trek universe, or maybe it was just soaked up as if the GOP were a giant fungus amongus. So, what’s dead? The Tea Party, which was…

The False Fairness of Bias

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: August 15, 2016

“If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly,” Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday, “I would be beating Hillary by 20%.” Argue the percentage, sure, but acknowledge the obvious bias. Asked by MediaBuzz host, Howard Kurtz, about a “tilt against Donald Trump,” Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for…

Listen to Whom?

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: May 10, 2016

It’s a time for choosing, I concluded yesterday, for Republican voters — between the so-called “establishment” Republicans endorsing Donald Trump’s candidacy and those, such as House Speaker Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and both President Bushes, who have declined to endorse. Sen. John McCain’s admonition that, “You have to listen to…