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What is America to make of Rick Perry, who one day laments before God, and a live audience of 30,000, the “discord at home” and “anger in the halls of government,” yet two days later conjures visions...
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If you want to predict who the Republican nominee for president will be, look no further than what John McCain, Bob Dole and Ronald Reagan had in common, says Shankar Vedantam in Slate. They all came...
View ArticleJohn McCain plays games while the Senate weighs war
Sen. John McCain, photographed playing video poker during a hearing on a potential attack on Syria, “is not the first politician caught with his attention wavering, and he won’t be the last,” writes...
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