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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

May 22, 2013 I'm hoping the administration won't go through my personal e-mails to reveal the answer to this week's ScuttleButton puzzle. Hopefully they'll wait a week, like everyone else.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Why Don't We Pay (More/Any) Attention To Los Angeles Mayoral Elections?

Los Angeles mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel.

May 21, 2013 After eight years of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles voters will pick a, shall we say, more charismatically-challenged successor.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

May 15, 2013 President Obama says we don't have time to be playing these kinds of political games. Was he talking about Benghazi or ScuttleButton?

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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

May 8, 2013 Seriously, who cares about the Jodi Arias verdict when there's a new ScuttleButton puzzle to be solved? Actually, even if there weren't a new ScuttleButton puzzle.

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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Political Junkie

Joe Biden Has History On His Side But Little Else If Hillary Clinton Runs

Biden 2016

May 7, 2013 History says that if a sitting vice president wants to succeed his retiring boss, the nomination is usually his. Think: Nixon '60, Humphrey '68, Bush '88, Gore '00. But history may not help Joe Biden in 2016.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Open Democratic Senate Seats Again Give Big Opportunity For GOP, Or Not

Tsongas

April 30, 2013 Of the eight senators retiring in 2014, six of them are Democrats. Which should be good news for the Republicans. Maybe. Plus: take our poll, please, as to who will win in South Carolina next week.

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

April 30, 2013 America has rushed to embrace the first openly gay NBA active player. Now if it would only embrace ScuttleButton, the popular waste-of-time button puzzle.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

April 23, 2013 The complaints begin anew. First, it was indignation over the April Fool's puzzle. Now, it's how EASY last week's one was. Well, here's another ScuttleButton for you to figure out.

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Friday, April 19, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

April 19, 2013 Please forgive me for the cruel, April Fool's ScuttleButton, which ultimately was deliberately unsolvable. This week's puzzle is on the up and up.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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Sanford And Weiner: Different Humiliations, Same Remorseful Script

April 17, 2013 It's wrong, and journalistically lazy, to lump together every politician who was ever involved in a sex scandal. Still, there are a lot of similarities between Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner — at least in their post-scandal "script."

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Monday, April 01, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

April 1, 2013 I couldn't possibly go on vacation this week without leaving a ScuttleButton puzzle to be solved behind.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

March 26, 2013 Everybody complains when ScuttleButton puzzles are too easy. Well, this week's offering is anything but easy.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

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Is It 2016 Yet? Moves By Hillary Clinton & Rand Paul Suggest Yes

March 25, 2013 Is it too soon to be thinking about 2016? Not really, especially after watching Hillary Clinton talk on same-sex marriage and Rand Paul on changes to immigration policy. Plus: a brief history of the GOP's rise in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District.

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Monday, March 18, 2013

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It's ScuttleButton Time!

March 18, 2013 America's two great pastimes — baseball and ScuttleButton — came together in last week's puzzle. Now you have a new one to figure out.

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Gay Marriage, DOMA And The Dramatic Shift In Public Opinion In One Year

For a brief time in 2004, then-S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

March 18, 2013 Public opinion is clearly shifting on the issue of gay marriage; even one Republican senator has come out in favor of it. But it was a different story in 1996, when an overwhelming majority of congressional D's and R's supported the Defense of Marriage Act and a Democratic president signed it.

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