The United States is not a country with strong party discipline. Every campaign features a few cross-party endorsements. Every Democrat gets a few prominent Republicans to endorse him, and every Republican gets a few prominent Democrats to endorse him. So… Continue Reading
By now, if you’re still following news from the Presidential campaign, you’ve come across the two-day-old trope of pouncing on Sarah Palin for differentiating “pro-America” parts of the country from other areas. Compounding it was another remark, which I’m not… Continue Reading
Andrew Ladhe made millions and millions of dollars running a hedge fund, staying in the subprime real estate market until it was clear things had gone irretrievably sour. A month ago, he cashed out and is now retired in his… Continue Reading
I wouldn’t be able to add much to this brief and well-written remembrance of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. I still see Brown as an ambiguous figure — an idealist who saw a need to take on a great… Continue Reading
Sometimes, you need to wait until the ninth inning before you leave a ballgame. Last night when we left dinner, I glanced at the TV and saw the Rays ahead, 7-0. I thought, “This thing is over.” Turns out, not… Continue Reading
Lots of talk this morning about “Joe The Plumber,” an imaginary, “average” American who John McCain started speaking to in the debate last night. Obama picked up the trope and now Joe The Plumber is in every house across this… Continue Reading
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”— Winston S. Churchill Ben Smith at Politico proves Sir Winston right with an astonishing e-mail he got from his buddy, a GOP consultant who was watching… Continue Reading
When the rhetoric gets so bad that your own candidate has to endure boos from the party faithful to rein in the excesses of political dialogue, that’s a bad thing. But once again, as the campaign moves into the closing… Continue Reading
…Oh, and I’m not liberal, either and I don’t appreciate being called one just because I happen to think that gay people deserve the same rights as everyone else and the government should stay out of people’s sex lives and… Continue Reading
And I didn’t either, when I first read the transcript of the debate. But some people did. The debate took place in Nashville, which was called “The place where the Bible Belt has its buckle” by many Tennesseans. But not… Continue Reading