December 8, 2011
Mark Shields
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Shields: Washington and the von Moltke Grid
We who live in Washington are admittedly a little defensive about this city we call home.
Mark Shields: Advice on graduation day
The graduation speaker's duty is to provide some rules or advice for the graduates.
Mark Shields: One man who gave politics a good name
Happy Chandler left the U.S. Senate in 1945, when the owners of the then-16 Major League teams elected him to be commissioner of baseball.
Mark Shields: A maligned generation
This past Monday night, along with 680 other lucky people in Washington’s historic Ford’s Theatre, I was able to enjoy the wit and wisdom of America’s dominant political satirist, Mark Russell.
Mark Shields: President not a fan of Washington
President Obama spends a lot of time knocking his adopted hometown of Washington.
Mark Shields: The GOP's lost youth
Who the president is when we first come of voting age strongly influences our future voting allegiances.
Mark Shields: Yes, I'm a 'college' dropout
The Founding Fathers were not, it turns out, infallible. The Electoral College is absolutely anti-democratic.
Mark Shields: Campaign 2012 deficits -- humility and humor
After watching the first two 2012 presidential debates, I only wish that President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney could have personally observed New York City's 1969 election.
MARK SHIELDS: GOP should steer clear of Gingrich nomination
“No man is good enough to be president,” wisely observed Abraham Lincoln, one of the nation’s greatest, “but someone has to be.”
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