Author: Tom Van Dyke

The Republican Party doesn’t need its opponents to call it stupid. They call themselves that—there’s no point in denying an open secret. It was proper and legal to invoke Virginia’s already-existing election code and...

“The Christmas spirit, marked by a wonderful feeling of goodwill among men, is in danger of being lost in the ongoing war against religion. Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the...

It’s now Conventional Wisdom that this 2012 GOP bunch is the total pits, but objectively, the 2008 Democrats are right in there: Winner Division Barack Obama —First-term US Senator, spent Years 3-4 of 6-yr...

Ron Paul with his newsletter makes a good pair with Barack Obama and his pastor Jeremiah Wright’s rantings from the pulpit: See no evil, hear no evil. Brings to mind when Bob Dole saw...

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.” Although Ben Franklin didn’t actually say that [it dates back only to the 1990s], it’s already a familiar American truism....

[We premiere a new feature @ LoOG: Republicans are a largely unknown and alien race here.] Few LoOGies observe Republicans in their natural habitat: Talk Radio comes in only through Media Matters’ accounts of...

A passing yet timely thought as we survey the Western world’s welfare state: What was thought to be 50 years of flight has turned out merely to have been free fall. [Note: Originally posted...