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In regards to the Democratic primaries and the meeting today of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules meeting today, here in Washington, on the topic of seating delegates from Michigan and Florida:
I’m not sure how one can make a fair extrapolation of those states’ primary election results because of the conditions they were held under.
I’m not [...]

A friend, independent journalist Brian Conley, posted to Twitter about a use of the term “anti-American” by JJ Sutherland on NPR that I also questioned. Brian noted his disappointment that the term was used when “anti-occupation” would be more accurate, and obviously true. Since then I have picked-up on more seemingly lax and inaccurate uses [...]

A declaration that something is not political in itself will highlight the politics of the thing.
The New York Times quotes a Chinese Olympic official, Qu Yingpu, in response to the protests of the Olympic torch tour as saying “This is not the right time, the right platform, for any people to voice their political views.”
His [...]

On ABC News tonight, a report on the Republican field of candidates for President quoted a Texas diner goer as not seeing “a clear leader.”

Nothing else was shown of what this individual said, so perhaps he had a more nuanced view. But I wonder why people say things like that and I wonder why the [...]