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SOTU: Obama Moves the Goalposts

Is there a better way to deal with this annual exercise in empty pageantry?

Matt Welch and Jim Epstein | 1.13.2016 1:15 AM

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Barack Obama's final State of the Union address was an unintentional demonstration of the physics of football. Which is to say, those goalposts won't move themselves.

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