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Slade's Filibuster


Slade's Filibuster

  • An Open Letter to Howard Dean by Julius Slade
    You aren’t helping

  • The War on Christmas by Julius Slade
    Or how I learned to stop loving holidays and embrace hysteria

  • DC Moneyball by Julius Slade
    In DC, there are a million and o­ne ways to peddle influence, but the number o­ne way still remains good old fashioned cash. o­ne of the very first things my lobbying mentors told me was that money can buy access, but never votes. This of course would refer to legal amounts of money, not the estimated $2.4 million in bribes taken by now disgraced former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham.

  • “Staying the Course” is Not an Option by Julius Slade
    Strategies and goals must change in Iraq

    The more things change in Washington, the more they stay the same. In my years following and working in politics, there has been nary a time where all the players in a fight know how a debate will end.

  • State Sanctioned Murder by Julius Slade
    Why the death penalty must be perfect but never will be

  • John Murtha Calls for Immediate Withdrawal From Iraq by Julius Slade
    Pennsylvania's veteran congressman may change the Iraq debate.

Slade's Filibuster