A common practice in politics is to define your opponents before they define themselves. Usually this results in gross misrepresentation of where the opposition
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I was recently in Albuquerque, NM and amazed at the extensive and exceptional coverage that one local TV station gave to the proposed Republican
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What’s the matter with Missouri: 2017 edition
The blood-red Missouri legislature, the state’s once-Democrat-now-Republican Governor, and our party-uber-alles senior Senator continue to make this state a beacon for everything that’s going