The Values Voter Summit – Overture & Overview
As I noted last week, I’ll be going to Washington DC this week to cover the Values Voter Summit. I’ll eventually look to put together a long-form article next week, but I also wanted...
Author: Tod Kelly
Washington DC Shindig Set!
Update: Black Squirrel owner Amy Bowman is all kinds of space awesome. Having seen this post, she shot me an email, offering us their party room and asking me to give a...
Required Reading: “John Cole is Space Awesome” Edition
There are a lot of reasons I love reading Balloon Juice’s John Cole. He has a passionate zeal about him, which is not so uncommon in a political blogger. But unlike most other political...
First round is on me, Beltway guys and gals…
As I said a while back, I’ll be in Washington DC next weekend covering the Values Voter Summit. Since I know we have a fair number of readers and contributors from the Beltway, it...
This Just In: Democrats to take away your Bible, force you into same-sex marriage (Now Updated – Twice!)
[Now with Second Bonus Update below! -tk] [Note: Updated below – tk] Well, that was quick. Last week it appeared that Republicans had made a tactical decision to shed their stuffy, country club image...
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Illusions __________ I was in high school when I first became a Richard Bach fan. ...
The Incredible Shrinking Candidate!
Of all the many odd things that are happening in this election cycle, maybe the oddest is the current strategy of those looking to put Mitt Romney in the White House. I could be...
A Few Words on Bigotry
Years ago when I was a bit younger (but still very much a grown adult of the world) I was traveling by car on business. A young man we’d just hired was accompanying...
NFL Football Contest!
Summer’s winding down, and Labor Day’s just around the corner, which means that it’s just about time for football. I was thinking this year we might have a contest to see whose professional gridiron...
Leading Missouri Senate Candidate to Women: If you get pregnant, you weren’t really raped
This really should be a Blinded Trials shoot down, but since the good Doctor is away on a well-deserved holiday with husband and critter, I’ll go ahead and take the uncontested shot from the...
Voter Fraud & The Inherent Corruption in Populism
There’s nothing so democratic as a lynch mob, as concerned citizens of Ohio and Pennsylvania have recently shown. In Pennsylvania this week, a judge upheld Act 18-2012, the now-famous piece of anti-voter-fraud legislation. Voter...
Forgive the defense their picks, Father – they know not what they do.
Remember when I said I couldn’t decide if the Broncos/Jets lightning-rod quarterback was Tim Tebow, the spunky athlete that just finds ways to win, or Tim Tebow™, the cynically marketed, pre-packaged product? Yeah, I...
Being rich is awesome! – or- Maybe Harry Reid is on to something after all…
Our current tax code is a complicated affair, and our desires to make to more “fair” are even more so. What is “fair,” after all? Is it the rate you pay, or the total...
Today in League History…
Hey, guess what? You remember that one guy? The one that was one of the only four people to ever be banned from the League? The one that was banned for, among other things,...
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to think: Gary Harrington, Oregon water rights, and Freedom
Note: This post may – or may not – be part of our League Symposium on Democracy. I can’t quite tell. [Moderator: Looks like it fits in to me. – BL] In any case,...
Romney names Ryan the VP nominee in campaign concession speech
(Note: This post is NOT part of our current Democracy Symposium. If you want to follow the Symposium – and you should! – you can find it here.) This morning, the Romney camp made two...
When I was your age we had to walk five miles uphill in the snow to get liberal Democracy
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. The...
The Unintended Costs of an Armed Society
(Note: This post is NOT part of our current Democracy Symposium. If you want to follow the Symposium – and you should! – you can fid it here.) When I was twenty-one and still...
Wow. Just… wow.
The day I forced myself to watch three hours of FOX News, the one consoling thought going through my head was: “Hey, at least it can’t get any stupider. I mean, they can only go...
The Good Book
While I was away traversing the mighty jungles of mid-town Manhattan, I had the chance to see The Book of Mormon. Even if you aren’t a theatre person, chances are you’ve still heard of...
