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- Weekend Reader: Hollywood Left And Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
- A ‘Morehouse Man’ Continues His Unlikely Journey
- 5 Great Signs For Obamacare
- We’re Spending Fewer Federal Dollars On Infrastructure Than We Have In 20 Years
- Massachusetts Senate Race Turns Ugly As Markey Expands Lead
- Is There Really A ‘Conservative Reform’ Movement In Policy?
Weekend Reader: Hollywood Left And Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
National Memo StaffThis week, Weekend Reader brings you an excerpt from Hollywood Left And Right, by film historian Steven J. Ross. Recently, there has been a consistent relationship between mainstream politics and the entertainment industry — movies like Argo and Lincoln can attract large audiences because Hollywood films have made historical political figures and events so accessible.
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A ‘Morehouse Man’ Continues His Unlikely Journey
Cynthia TuckerThis is a story of redemption, a tale of obstacles overcome, statistics defied, clichés silenced. Last week, Genarlow Wilson, once judged an irredeemable sex offender, graduated from Atlanta’s Morehouse College, the small, all-men’s institution that is the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Why Second-Term Scandals Are Almost Inevitable
Cass SunsteinIn the last month, there has been a lot of talk about whether American presidents face a second-term curse. It’s not clear that such a thing exists, but any second-term president is likely to have to deal with some real or apparent scandals. The reason isn’t arrogance, distraction or hubris. It’s a matter of arithmetic.
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Why Second-Term Scandals Are Almost Inevitable
In the last month, there has been a lot of talk about whether American presidents face a second-term curse. It’s not clear that such a thing exists, but any second-term president is likely to have to deal with some real or apparent scandals. The reason isn’t arrogance, distraction or hubris. It’s a matter of arithmetic.
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Poll: More Americans Feeling Effects Of Sequester Cuts
According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, the budget sequester is finally starting to pack a political punch.
The poll finds that 37 percent of Americans now say that the sequester has hurt them personally — a significant rise from March, when a Post/ABC poll found that the $85 billion across-the-board spending cuts had personally affected just 25 percent.
This Week In Crazy — May 24th Edition
Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the wildest attacks, conspiracy theories, and other loony behavior from the increasingly unhinged right wing.
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Separate But Unequal: Apple Defers Its Taxes, You Foot The Bill
The richest of the rich are different from you and me because instead of paying taxes, Congress lets them pay interest.
This little-known difference was on full display before the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee this week, though you would hardly know that from the news reports of testimony by Apple CEO Tim Cook and his top finance and tax executives.
McCain Responds To ‘Nuclear Threat,’ Criticizes Tea Party Senators
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) took to the Senate floor on Thursday morning to scold members of his own party yet again, as Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Mike Lee (R-UT) insist on blocking the Senate from sending its budget proposal to a conference committee with the House.
Read more...If The Election Were Held Today, The GOP Could Lose The House
You know by now that the Republican Party used their 2010 landslide to gerrymander an electoral map that would make it nearly impossible for them to lose the House of Representatives until 2022. Well, the impossible could happen if the GOP doesn’t change direction.
Read more...Tea Party Group Protesting IRS Has History of Questionable Political Involvement
Tea Party Patriots, originally formed as a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation in 2009, has a history of questionable electoral activity. Nevertheless, as one of the largest of the movement’s national factions, it is taking advantage of the so-called IRS scandal to re-ignite the anger of Tea Partiers, encourage their (false) sense of victimhood, and increase their ranks.
Read more...Obama Defends Drones, Condemns Guantánamo In National Security Speech
President Barack Obama outlined new regulations for drone strikes and reiterated his desire to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay in a wide-ranging speech about the future of American national security.
President Obama’s speech, which was delivered at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
How Obama’s ‘Scandals’ Will Hurt The GOP
More astute Republicans are well aware that their so-called “scandals” can end up damaging them more than President Obama — just as the impeachment of President Clinton wounded the GOP in 1998.
Read more...You Can’t Really Get So Upset About Obama If You’ve Written The Book Fifty Shades Of Greygan
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Former Reagan speechwriter/fan-fictionist Peggy Noonan is deeply, deeply pained by the “scandals” surrounding President Obama.
“This IRS thing is something I’ve never seen in my lifetime,” she achingly whimpered on Meet the Press Sunday.
She Thanked God, And The Debate Rages On
It was a flash of joy against a relentless backdrop of despair. So, of course, the video of Barbara Garcia’s happy news went viral.
Just as predictably, her breathless moment of gratitude sparked debate on virtually every site I could find that posted the video.
Garcia mentioned God. That’s all it takes.
