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Jeff Smith: My Macaca Moment

The recent attention to local and national politicians' racial gaffes reminds me of my own.

As readers may be aware, politicians have lately dredged up one of the ugliest aspects of our nation's history: slavery and the subsequent century of brutality and discrimination. Haley Barbour has often tripped himself up, beginning with his 1982 watermelon comment. More recently he's praised the ignominious Citizens Councils and declined to condemn a proposal to venerate Confederate war hero and...

The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Fashion

The Politics of Fashion

If you wear high-heels frequently, then you may suffer from high-heel syndrome. And no, I am not making this up – there is even a study to back it up!   [The Beauty Shop]

In news you should care about: Tyra Banks likes to chew on stilettos. Check out the video:   [NY Magazine]

Singapore was the newest fashion capital a couple weeks ago. The city of Memphis now claims that title as the Memphis Grizzlies FINALLY won their first playoff game at home. Will you be sporting a g...

RPTV: Fifteen Minutes of Fame with Jim Pinkerton

Today's guest for RPTV's Fifteen Minutes of Fame is the noted author, television commentator and GOP policy guru, Jim Pinkerton. Going back to the George H.W. Bush Administration, Pinkerton has been one of the leading Republican policy minds in Washington. Unlike most of cable TV's talking heads, Pinkerton does not stick to the party script, and has consistently pushed his party to the center on social issues, while remaining a fierce advocate for fiscal conservatism and the free markets.

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Tomorrow at the Recovering Politician

Tuesday will be another big day here at The Recovering Politician.

We begin with an RPTV Fifteen Minutes of Fame interview with author, political commentator, and policy guru, Jim Pinkerton.  Since the first Bush Administration, Pinkerton has been widely known as one of the keenest GOP policy minds in Washington, and he has never been afraid to skew from the party line.  Pinkerton shares his thoughts on the budget debate in Congress, the 2012 election, and his recommendations to combat income ...

The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Tech

The Politics of Tech -- Courtesy of arstechnica

You may have recently heard about the news that Apple's iPhone recording individual users' locations. Arstechnica gives a rundown of what this means for Apple device users and for the company itself. [arstechnica]

Gizmodo asks: Have you contracted Netflix Streaming Syndrome? I hear it's pretty serious [Gizmodo]

Many of you are probably familiar with Playstation Network, Sony's answer to Microsoft's Xbox Live. Unfortunately for Sony, many hackers...

The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Faith

The Politics of Faith

Forgiveness is emphasized in many world religions, but in this unforgiving world, what does it mean to forgive someone? [BBC News Magazine]

Yesterday, many people celebrated Easter with baskets full of candy, pictures with the Easter bunny, and Easter egg hunts. Write Anne Lamott reflects on what the holiday means to her, and what it means to be "Easter people living in a Good Friday World." [NPR]

More on the Easter theme–was the resurrection of Jesus physical or...

The RP: In Defense of Sarah Palin

One of my favorite columnists/bloggers/ whatever-you-want-to-call-hims, Andrew Sullivan, has been on an extended rant, raising questions as to whether Sarah Palin is the legitimate birth parent of her now three-year-old son Trig.

A conspiracy theory, formerly consigned to the ranks of far-far-left bitter partisans, is being very seriously and very publicly scrutinized by an often-conservative, almost-always-thoughftul member of the media Establishment.

Read here and here and here and here and

The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of the Web

The Politics of the Web

 

Visualizing the Iphone 5. What it may look like. [PC Magazine]

Internet celebrity Antoine Dodson arrested in Alabama. [CBS News]

Playstation Network outage leaves PS3 users disconnected for days. [Mercury News]

Obama pulls the plug on internet poker sites. [Washington Times]

Eva Moskowitz: School Dollars are Better Spent on Things Other than Class Size

Contributing RP Eva Moskowitz, a former New York City Councilperson, has been an unspoken advocate for charter schools since her time in public office.  Now the founder and chief executive of the Success Charter Network, a collection of seven charter schools in Harlem and the Bronx, she is speaking out on what she has learned from her work.  Today, she argues, contrary to conventional wisdom, that class size is not the critical factor upon which to build education policy.

Here's an excerpt — t...

Next Week at The Recovering Politician

Thanks for another incredible week at The Recovering Politician.  We are so grateful for all of your support, compliments, and good ideas.

We even appreciate your complaints.  And we are addressing them.

One of them comes from the RP's household.  The RP, as you may know, is not the Speaker of his House, and he's barely the minority leader:  Mrs. RP, the two RPettes, and even the RPcanine is female.

While the site's introduced two superstar female contributing RP thus far — Kathleen Kennedy...