Tag: Maureen Dowd

Now we know what they do on a slow day (in other words, every day but 'Husker game day) in Nebraska. They take their...

The ad refers to a column Dowd wrote about buying a pot-laced candy bar in Denver, taking a few large bites and descending into full Willy-Wonka freak out, lying in her hotel and turning extra-conscious mental pirouettes for hours.

The "struggle for control of the Republican party," a long-running favorite politics media narrative, was the winner of yesterday's Republican U.S. Senate primary race in Mississippi.

Some parts of the bill seem to be there just to show that they can be -- like making it legal to carry in certain parts of the airport. Hey, it's good for (the gun and bullet) business!

Lost: What could have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

The supposed "vampires" and "parasites" of the post-paper media-sphere are having a good laugh at the pains old-school New York Times maven Maureen Dowd is taking to explain away how she lifted an entire paragraph from TPM's Josh Marshall for her column yesterday.

I love The West Wing. I find myself taking notes on what politics could become if only our leaders acted more like, well, leaders. West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin recently wrote a fictional dialog between real presidential candidate Barack Obama and fake President Josiah Bartlet. It's positively brilliant.

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