It's ScuttleButton Time!
An absolute pleasure running into so many old friends on Saturday at the meeting of the American Political Items Collectors in Tyson's Corner, Va. Yes, such an organization exists. No, I was not the...
View ArticleIs It 2016 Yet? Moves By Hillary Clinton & Rand Paul Suggest Yes
If you have any interest in politics at all, you pretty much know two things. One, that the next presidential election, on Nov. 8, 2016, is only 1,324 days away. And two, you won't be surprised if...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
In the thousand-plus or so emails I get each time a ScuttleButton puzzle is posted, I invariably will get dozens and dozens of complaints that it was just too easy, that it insulted their intelligence,...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
I'm on vacation this week, and thus no Political Junkie column, Talk of the Nation appearance or podcast for me. But giving up ScuttleButton ? No way. ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week...
View ArticleSanford And Weiner: Different Humiliations, Same Remorseful Script
In the past three decades or so, when writing about political sex scandals became an art form, the tendency has always been to lump everyone together. There are many differences between, say, what...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
Hopefully, the disappointment/frustration of that April Fool's ScuttleButton has subsided and now you're ready for the real stuff. ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
Lots of people have been inquiring about the future of ScuttleButton . While I wish I had an answer — I don't, not yet — I'd like to suggest that you sign up for the Political Junkie/ScuttleButton...
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An openly gay basketball player? Next thing you know, there will be openly clever ScuttleButton puzzles. Only not this week. ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in...
View ArticleOpen Democratic Senate Seats Again Give Big Opportunity For GOP, Or Not
The headlines have not been especially kind to Senate Democrats lately as they, for the second consecutive cycle, head into an election with a numerical disadvantage and more open seats to defend. But...
View ArticleJoe Biden Has History On His Side But Little Else If Hillary Clinton Runs
It's pretty much a truism in American political history: If the president is not running again and the vice president wants his party's nomination, it's his for the asking. That was the case in 1960,...
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Disgraced but asking for redemption. I'm describing me, of course, after a spate of uneven ScuttleButton puzzles. Though, I must admit, I liked last week's offering. ScuttleButton, of course, is that...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
We know how the president feels about it. "We don't have time to be playing these kinds of political games in Washington," Barack Obama said on Monday, in what many took to be a full attack on...
View ArticleWhy Don't We Pay (More/Any) Attention To Los Angeles Mayoral Elections?
Horace Greeley may have suggested at one point that going west might be a good idea, but he probably wouldn't be happy to see what's going on with Los Angeles as of late. The Dodgers are in last place...
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They can wiretap my phone and snoop through my e-mail all they want, but I will never reveal the answer to this week's ScuttleButton puzzle. At least until next week. ScuttleButton, of course, is that...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
Just a reminder that there is a possibility ScuttleButton may disappear from the NPR Web site in the next month or so. So if I were you, I'd sign up for the Political Junkie mailing list (info below)...
View ArticleVirginia Lt. Gov. Nominee Excites The Right, And Democrats Couldn't Be Happier
It's taken awhile, but Tea Party activists and social conservatives are finally beginning to get smiles on their faces. Whether that will last through the November election is another story. After...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
It's time to solve this week's S cuttleButton puzzle. ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Tuesday or Wednesday I put up a vertical display of buttons on...
View ArticleLautenberg Death Complicates Christie's Road To November, And 2016
One of the last things Alaska Gov. Walter Hickel did before he resigned to join the Nixon Cabinet was to fill a Senate vacancy caused by the December 1968 death of E.L. Bartlett , a Democrat. Hickel...
View ArticleIt's ScuttleButton Time!
The sad thing about this week's ScuttleButton puzzle is that Edward Snowden has already revealed the answer. ScuttleButton, of course, is that once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Tuesday...
View ArticleIt's The Final ScuttleButton Puzzle ... For Now
Some words I never thought I would utter: This is the last ScuttleButton puzzle that will ever appear on the NPR Web site. With the cancellation of Talk of the Nation , and of course the weekly...
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