Presidential Placebo
When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profound as the NSA spying scandal,…
When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profound as the NSA spying scandal, I suspected he would raise issues that he hoped the media would ignore. That's because the Reagan White House did a study in the early 1980s and concluded that Fridays are low-value news days and thus a good time to bury the lead, so to speak. Every president since then has followed that lead.
Instead of addressing the massive violations of the natural and constitutionally protected right to privacy, instead of acknowledging that but. . .
When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profound as the NSA spying scandal,…
When the Framers were putting together the Constitution in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, they knew the states would not adopt…
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