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Gail Collins

Gender Equality, and Mediocre Men & Women

Trail Blazers vs. Trail Followers “Women have made it to a point where a woman who’s been first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state can win a presidential nomination. Now let’s see how long it takes for someone who’s a little less overqualified to get the nod.” –Gail Collins, “Hillary on the March“; The...
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Exactly Who is a ‘Millionaire?’

Fiscal Cliff Semantics From watching the fiscal cliff negotiations from (very) afar, I’ve gleaned two things to date:  1) apparently, the $250k threshold for raising income taxes has now been raised to $400k (the Republicans initially insisted on $1 million); 2) we now have yet more evidence that President Obama is a lousy negotiator (Gail...
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Gail Collins on "T-Paw"

Pawlenty Makes The NY Times It’s always a kick when a national columnist takes a poke at local, Minnesota politician. In this case, The New York Times’ Gail Collins has a little fun in her column this morning contrasting Governor Tim Pawlenty’s angry, “red meat” rhetoric to conservatives with his decidedly mild manner — and...
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