Say Goodbye to the Occupation
Tom Jensen from Public Policy Polling has some new figures about the Occupy Movement’s dwindling stature in the public’s eyes: The Occupy Wall Street movement is not wearing well with voters across...
View ArticleRomney’s Going Big in Iowa
One wonders how much the rise of Newtmentum influenced this decision: The answer to one of the great lingering questions about the Republican presidential race has suddenly turned up here along...
View ArticleWill Mitt Romney Lie, Unimpeded?
So here’s how Romney’s campaign is responding to those who have pointed out that his first television ad of this campaign is “pants on fire“-level dishonest in how it quotes the President out of...
View ArticleMitt Romney Invented the Internet
An underrated aspect of what will be the 2012 election is the fact that, just as they hated Al Gore in 2000, the national political press hates Mitt Romney. For a taste of what, in some bizarro...
View ArticleWin Or Lose In 2012, Obama’s Got No Class
Noting that, for the first time in a generation, inequality will be a major theme of a US Presidential election, Michael Cohen writes how the result in November may establish a new conventional wisdom...
View ArticleIs Mitt Romney An Egomaniac?
So some guy that I’ve never heard of before, but who used to work for Rep. Bachmann, that paragon of competency, has been canned by Team Romney for getting too much attention for supposedly being the...
View ArticleJames Fallows On Obama
This is, by some distance, the best piece I’ve seen yet in the already voluminous genre of Who Is Obama and/or What Obama Means. It’s long and as Maude Lebowski would say, very thorough; but it’s an...
View ArticleWhat___Said
Barney Frank on democratic accountability: Politicians make mistakes, journalists make mistakes, and the public is no bargain either. Yeah, I get frustrated. But some people in the media act like...
View ArticleBarack Obama And The Supertanker Of State
In response to my recent post on what I called Obama 2012′s rather limited ambitions, valued reader CK MacLeod wrote the following. My emphasis: …look at “the Reagan Era” from the perspective of a...
View ArticleOn Quin Hillyer’s Nuanced And Thought-Provoking Treatise On Race
Lord help me, I’m going to write about race s’more. All right — so what we’ve got this time is the American Spectator‘s Quin Hillyer and a post of his that’s absolutely brimming with righteous...
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