Jesse SchecknerDecember 5, 2022
6min0
DeSantis’ popularity among stalwart conservatives and Republican converts has soared over the last couple years.
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Jesse SchecknerDecember 5, 2022
Associated PressSeptember 23, 2020
10min276
Joe Biden was running late. Again. On a recent Friday, he’d already apologized for the delayed start to a speech, then taken more questions than expected at a subsequent press conference. When it was finally over, Biden’s motorcade sped away quickly enough to leave behind one of the journalists traveling with it. But as the […]
Associated PressFebruary 28, 2020
8min223
The high-tech effort took years of research.
Darryl PaulsonAugust 17, 2017
6min426
We are all familiar with gobbledygook: Words that have no real meaning. We are now seeing Googledygook: speech which says one thing, but really means something different. On June 29, 2017, Google employee James Damore posted a ten-page memo on a Google message board which was designed to solicit ideas and encourage debate. Damore’s post, […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 1, 2017
5min509
Charlie Crist is one congressional Democrat who appears to be greeting the incoming Donald Trump administration with an open mind. “Whatever it is that we come to help American workers get back to work and help the middle class and our country, we need to do it together and do it in a spirit of […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 24, 2016
14min355
With his twice-weekly forum on The New York Times Op-Ed page, along with weekly gigs on NPR’s All Things Considered and the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks is regarded as one of the pre-eminent political pundits in the country. So when I had the opportunity to speak with him about an hour-and-a-half before his scheduled appearance at the Palladium […]
Mitch PerryNovember 12, 2015
7min392
David Jolly once again is criticizing Hillary Clinton for her previous remarks about problems with the Department of Veterans Affairs. He’s also trying to draw in Alan Grayson – his potential opponent in the 2016 U.S. Senate race – into answering Clinton’s comments as well. The Pinellas County Republican congressman appeared on Boston Herald radio Thursday […]
Mitch PerryAugust 27, 2015
2min165
The conventional wisdom among some political observers is that whatever is happening this summer in U.S. politics, next year’s presidential contest will inevitably come down to a Jeb v. Hillary contest. Whether that will happen will be known soon enough. In the interim, Jeb Bush‘s campaign team continues to look past Donald Trump and aim […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 3, 20155min143
It wasn’t that long ago when Time magazine was proclaiming Rand Paul the most interesting politician in America. Rand was by far the mainstream media’s favorite idea of a Republican: a man speaking out about the poor and disenfranchised; who spoke in Berkeley and at Howard University; a saner version of his old man, Libertarian […]