So newly-nominated U.S. Senate candidate apparently once “dabbled into witchcraft” back in her early twenties. That sounds like a gigantic yawner of a non-story to me. There being no religious test for the holding of Federal office and all forms… Continue Reading
It’s fair to say that a trio of announcements from the White House are enough to signal a new tone, if not necessarily a new policy, on economic issues. The policies are the result of the continuing failure of the… Continue Reading
I’m not all that impressed with Barack Obama, either. But has he really earned Ben Quayle’s attack as “the worst President in history”? My choice for that label is number fifteen: As bad as Obama is — the worst deficit… Continue Reading
This blog has an odd name and there’s a lot of social conservative stuff there that sits poorly with me. But a friend writes there and he just freaking nailed it today. It’s sad to see that incumbents, even in… Continue Reading
There is a building near the corner of Broadway and Park Place in New York City, occupying a spot either two or three blocks north of the edge of the World Trade Center reconstruction site depending on how you count… Continue Reading
This is big news. He’s timing his retirement so that Arnold Schwarzenegger, and not his successor, gets to name the next Chief Justice of California.
The top overall vote-getters for Governor yesterday were: Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown 1,478,752 Meg Whitman 1,101,528 Steve Poizner 461,823 So under the old rules, Brown and Whitman are their party’s nominees and will face off against each other in November.… Continue Reading
I haven’t ever done official endorsements before, but blogging is all about trying new things. So here goes. Proposition 13: Provides that certain kinds of seismic upgrades to existing structures will not trigger reassessment and thus property tax increases. I… Continue Reading
Twice in as many weeks, it has been revealed that the Obama Administration has offered White House jobs to prominent primary challengers to incumbent Democrats. Once in Pennsylvania and now, we learn, in Colorado. The idea seems to be to… Continue Reading
I really really want to like Rand Paul in Kentucky. I want to see him find a way to mediate basic libertarian ideas and appeals to social conservatives. But he isn’t doing it. Hopefully, the worst of his gaffefest is… Continue Reading