Health Wonk Review is a fortnightly collection of health policy writing from around the blogosphere.
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Gore denied he was a policy wonk who was too stiff to relax and watch television.
The Ryan plan was the health wonk equivalent of deja vu when I read it.
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Every politician and policy wonk suggests the usual remedies more education, retraining and infrastructure investment.
That is the advantage to having a political ideologue lead the organization as opposed to a policy wonk.
It also has fans on the Right, most notably Yuval Levin, dean of the conservative entitlement-reform wonk set.
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"A policy wonk, " says Joseph Tartaro, president of the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation.
Both think Mitt Romney made a definitive choice in selecting budget wonk Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) as his running mate.
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The senator is a policy wonk with the political skills, regularly applied across party lines, to put ideas into practice.
Another category of health blogs I like, but often disagree with, is embodied by the collection at Health Wonk Review.
Instead of coming off as sexy and vacuous, the wonk in the hipster glasses presents as functionally unisex and extremely content-rich.
Per usual, Clinton seemed to revel in his policy wonk persona, once again compartmentalizing his life into distinct personal and professional boxes.
The third reason: Obama the policy wonk doesn't mesh with black voters.
Half of last month's congressional recess was spent pressing political and policy-wonk flesh in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Romania and Bosnia.
And, with marijuana, this gets pretty interesting at least for a tax wonk.
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Slowly but steadily, a new party line is taking form: Believe it or not, Bill Clinton is a crack foreign policy wonk, after all.
Development aid is the wonkiest of wonk subjects, something the average person, at least until a few years ago, did not pay much attention to.
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After a bad spell as a front-line wonk, leading her husband's failed effort to reform health care, she has retreated to safely feminine issues like children.
Ryan, 42, is considered a policy wonk and conservative Catholic likely to energize the GOP base and sharpen the campaign's focus on government spending and the economy.
Wind the clock back to 1979, and no one, not a single pundit, policy wonk, or economist, forecast the economic boom that came from the last such cycle.
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Kid is Duncan Pinderhughes, a wonk who doffs his bottom-down collars when a school administrator accidentally switches his identity with that of Blade Brown (Play), a stylish, incorrigible homeboy.
You can find the wonk in the hipster glasses in your newspaper too, or at websites that publish a lot of listicles, charticles, graphs, and, sometimes, acts of wonk-on-wonk violence.
Quiet and intense, O'Neill described himself recently as a "free-ranging, self-admitted maverick, " but he's also a wonk, drilling down into the details of a problem personally until he finds what he wants.
But as a policy wonk with numbers to back up his opinions, and a belligerent debater who likes to argue for the sake of arguing, he can't and won't keep his mouth shut.
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As director of information, Mr. Berger is the team's official wonk, entering every play by every NFL team into a database in search of trends and tendencies that might be useful for Giants coaches.
Villas-Boas never played professionally, and from the time he was a teenager, he worked his way up the coaching ranks as a kind of tactical wonk who studied the finer aspects of soccer strategy.
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Allow your inner policy wonk to take over.
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My own taste would have him talk less like a policy wonk and more like a preacher, but as the panel demonstrated in a confused and awkward way, most of us are on the same side.
Research by the likes of David Halpern, a wonk who worked for Tony Blair and now serves Mr Cameron, and Alan Milburn, a former Labour cabinet minister who is advising the government on social mobility, shows the same thing.
In a point of order yesterday, Labour procedure wonk Chris Bryant obtained confirmation that joint committees operate under Lords standing orders, which means that the committee chair will have both a vote in their own right and a casting vote - which could give the government point of view more clout in deciding its conclusions.
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