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Heritage Foundation to Congress: “Don’t legislate. Scandal-gate.”

May 18, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Government, Obama, Politics One comment

This is what passes for “thinking” at the leading conservative “think tank,” the Heritage Foundation. Earlier this week [May 2013], the Heritage Foundation’s executive

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Get re-elected. Resign immediately. Go to work for a lobbying group. Repeat.

January 17, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Congress, Ethics, Politics, States Leave a comment

Political manipulation and cynicism hit a new low in December 2012, when, just 30 days after being re-elected, Jo Ann Emerson, the  ten-term Congressperson

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The Heritage Foundation wants me to join up. Here’s their scary pitch.

March 19, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, Ideas, Language/Words, Obama, Politics One comment

I’m being recruited by the Heritage Foundation. They like me, they really like me! Or, perhaps, they like my zipcode and phone number, which

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