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Good Afternoon. This is Charles Gibson reporting of, by and from the White House. It’s been a really cool day here so far, and it’s going to get really cooler when we talk to President Obama about health care, later in the broadcast.…
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For all the volumes that are filled about the foreign policy predilections of American presidents, a commander-in-chief’s attitude towards foreign affairs can often be captured in a single iconic moment. There’s John F. Kennedy staring…
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Imagine a baseball game that appears almost over, but then goes into extra innings for almost 15 years. With that image in mind, one can begin to understand the nature of Marshall vs. Marshall, the endless Anna Nicole Smith inheritance litigation, which…
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When asked this week whether he planned on reading Sarah Palin’s new autobiography Going Rogue, Barack Obama curtly replied, “probably not.”
Fair enough. The President is a busy man playing pickup basketball games at the…
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In 1965, a young economist named Mancur Olson published a book that revolutionized the study of interest group politics. In “The Logic of Collective Action,” Olson turned the conventional wisdom about the economics of political power on its…
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.” That was the verdict of H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore wag who many consider one of the greatest journalists of the early 20th century. …
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Sometimes, the public square can be mistaken for an insane asylum.
On November 5th, an amendment to a bill funding the Census Bureau was defeated in the United States Senate. Unlike most proposed changes to routine spending bills, the amendment…
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Americans in the other 49 states can be forgiven if they don’t understand what the big deal about California is. Sure, the Golden State is a land of movie stars, sun kissed beaches and endless innovation. But it’s also a place perched on the…
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