Month: August 2005
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Is Bill Frist like Steve Forbes?
Jason Reifler, one of my colleagues at Duke (and an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago in the fall), offers a telling analogy for who most resembles Bill Frist among past presidential contenders: I think you missed the real reason behind Frists’s change of heart on stem cells. It’s not a break in his pandering
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The Hotline on Frist and Hillary
Here’s a nice point from yesterday’s edition of The Hotline, the subscription-only insider political newsletter, about Bill Frist and Hillary Clinton making gestures toward the center in the period before the 2008 primaries (though I think that Hillary hasn’t actually moved very far). They’re right that Frist is taking a much greater risk — he
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Harry Reid asserts a John Bolton coverup
In an interview that was quoted by the Washington Post, Senator Harry Reid claims that the administration’s refusal to turn over classified documents on John Bolton requested by Democrats prove that “[t]here must be something he’s trying to hide”: BuzzFlash: Reading between the lines, we speculate that the Democrats in the Senate know of a
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Why John McCain won’t win the GOP nomination in 2008
As I’ve argued before, there’s no way John McCain is going to win the Republican nomination in 2008. Establishment conservatives dislike him too much. Grover Norquist, the influential head of Americans for Tax Reform, called McCain a “gun-grabbing, tax-increasing Bolshevik.” And in a recent profile of Norquist in The New Yorker, David Keene, the president