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A Congressman's desire to protect his home turf often saves weapons that ought to fade away. Neither the Air Force nor the Army asked for money for the C-12 personnel-carrying aircraft, and the Navy requested only twelve, presumably because all the services knew the politics involved would...
Bush’s firm desire to privatize Social Security is driven by ideology, not reality. This same ideology prompted Republican presidential candidates Alf Landon to describe Social Security as “a cruel hoax” in 1936 and Barry Goldwater to advocate the repeal of Social Security...
A Dear Abby for Dems, this site's Auntie Pinko answers woeful letters with hope: "Liberals are now (more or less) where the ultraconservative wing of the G.O.P. was back when Mr. Goldwater was defeated in 1964."
Politics doesn't come naturally to me. I don't have the old savoir faire. I have a chilly demeanor and a long, sad face that comes from growing up among good people who told me I was going straight to hell. I'm not a salesman cheerful certainty makes...
Of course, not all political film-making of the past was characterized by such straightforward objectivity. The 1964 feature The Best Man, based on a stage play by Gore Vidal, resonates with today’s negative politics, as it dramatizes several candidates’ efforts to smear and outmaneuver...