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Seriously?

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On April 6, 2011

I just did a quick Nexis search, and discovered that the query "(Paul Ryan) and serious" produced 314 hits in the last 48 hours. Browsing through a couple of dozen.

Politics as Hobby

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In Robert Farley
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On March 8, 2011
The recent Sheen-stravaganza brings these thoughts to mind. Bernstein: Remember: if you're reading this blog, odds are good that you're at least in the top 10% of all Americans in political knowledge, and more likely you're in the top 1%. And for those of us...

How Narratives Work

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In Uncategorized
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On February 3, 2010
Essentially, the only remaining interest in the "revelations" about John Edwards at this point is that they provide a good example of how narratives are put together by political journalists when in their theater critic mode. Once someone has been established as one of History's...

The rehabilitation of John McCain

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In Uncategorized
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On October 14, 2008
It looks increasingly likely that the McCain-Palin ticket will go down to a crushing defeat three weeks from today. One perennial trope of American political journalism is that once a presidential candidate has gone down in flames, an explosion of sentimentality (edited to add: in...

Turning trick questions

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On October 1, 2008

Although I haven't seen it I understand there's a David Cronenberg movie in which people are subjected to telekinetic bombardment until their heads actually explode. If the increasingly unstable state.

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