Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters, and lauded by the ABC News political website as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation," Dick Polman is a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "writer in residence." Dick has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC. He covered the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns.
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All commentaries posted before April 18, 2008, can be accessed at www.dickpolman.blogspot.com.
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Never before have so many politicians seemed so fixated on their "stimulus packages."
Or maybe the tally has risen lately simply because no secret is safe in our transparent culture. Maybe that helps explain why we know about John Edwards and his videographer, David Vitter and his hookers, Eliot Spitzer as Client No. 9, Larry Craig and his
- The fireworks of fear
Ending the ban on openly gay solders will be far simpler than was racially integrating the military.
When will Barack Obama tap his inner Truman and take the initiative to end the ignominious ban on gays serving openly in the military?
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Conservatives are in a lather over Sonia Sotomayor's frank acknowledgment that her thought process as a high court judge would be influenced by her life as a Hispanic woman. They cite such remarks as proof that she would pursue a "liberal activist" agenda with scant regard for the rule of law or judicial impartiality.
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Roughly five dozen Americans have died in mass shootings since the beginning of March, so naturally the details tend to blur. Nevertheless, the Pittsburgh incident stands out. On April 4, some nutcase with a private gun arsenal wigged out at his mother's house, killed three city cops, and held off a SWAT team for several hours with the help of his AK-47 assault rifle.
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Once upon a time, long before the GOP plummeted to its current status as the Southern and Rural Older White Guy Party, it actually was home to a healthy subspecies known as the Republican moderate.
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On the cusp of his first 100 days in office, the new president is fully embarked on his transformative mission, dominating the news cycle by sheer force of his telegenic cool, exuding confidence, and prompting downhearted Americans to feel better about their troubled country.
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