Monthly Archive: August 2012

After the Republican Party was massively defeated in the 2006 Congressional elections, then almost as badly in the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections, there was a fair amount of discussion that the GOP’s national...

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the...

It’s important to read and think about views other than your own, especially if the disagreements are profound: Many of our young people want to be ”wives and husbands” rather than simply ”partners” and...

Your speech at the RNC convention was a masterpiece. My congratulations. Effective doublespeak requires double the effort. None of us will forget that bright September day when your assistant told you an airplane had...

CBPP’s “Off the Charts” blog has a helpful round-up of Paul Ryan’s budget plan. (The one that beltway “sages’ seem to think is “brave” or whatever nonsensical crap they like to talk about). Contrast...

Why not mandate a citizen-directed redistribution instead of a government-directed redistribution?

New Zealand already has Civil Unions but a Bill has been introduced to allow gay marriage.  It passed its first reading (the first of 3 votes needed to pass the Bill), which clears it...

Whewwwwwww!  Daaaaaaaaaamn! Former Secretary of State’s Condoleezza Rice’s speech was, in a word, awesome.

I am going to be on Huff Post Live with James Poulos at about 9:30. The topic will be jobs. <strike>When I have one, I will update this post with a</strike> Here is the...

Please join up for this year’s fantasy football league! Sign up here, using the password tombradysbabygoat. If you have difficulty locating the page, it’s Yahoo Fantasy Football league no. 627721. The winner of the fantasy...

Imagine license plates existed starting in 1765. The post image means something, yes?  If you’re John Adams and you’re trotting down the road on the way to drop off a letter to The Boston...

Winning a two-candidate election in which voters can be plotted on a spectrum will require winning the median voter. This is a well-known result in political science. We usually think of the median voter...

Did the crowd really just chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!” during Mia Love’s speech at the Republican National Convention? Is this normal?  I’ve never really watched a convention before… but it stood out to me as...

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