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Political Culture: In Defense of … ACORN?

Jon Cummings September 24, 2009 10

Glenn Beck scored another pelt for his demagoguery-fur coat this week, when Congress voted to cut all federal funding for the community-organizing group ACORN in the wake of those seedy undercover videos Beck has

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Political Culture: How Specter Screwed the Democrats

Jon Cummings April 30, 2009 7

The Republican Party’s annus became considerably more horribilis this week, with Arlen Specter switching parties, President Obama taking what amounted to a 100-days victory lap (despite the economy’s continuing decline), and a new poll

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Political Culture: I Have More Influence than Rush Limbaugh

Jon Cummings March 5, 2009 15

It’s been a giggle this week watching Democrats paint Rush Limbaugh as the “bloated, drug-addled” head of the Republican Party, as Paul Begala put it the other day. It’s been even more of a

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Political Culture: Bipartisanship — What Is It Good For?

Jon Cummings January 29, 2009 19

As of last night, absolutely nothin’. (Legislatively speaking, at least.) But you gotta give Barack Obama points for trying. Presidents don’t often do what Obama did on Tuesday. A week to the day after

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