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Cool Hand Conservatives?

By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, January 23 2013

This is a Seinfeld column. It is a political column about nothing. It is a column about nothing because there is a need for some breathing space. Last year, for many months, everybody who cares about public affairs was caught up in what seemed like a near-crisis atmosphere, talking and worrying and writing about the most consequential presidential election since at least 1980. Then when the unfortunate results became apparent, the time for reflection, and for wound-licking, was severely foreshortened by the “crisis” of the so-called “Fiscal Cliff.” Then came the bitter…

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