Still working on getting around to working on some things I need to work on, but I thought I’d take a point of personal privilege and remark upon just how little I care about revolutionary Christine O’Donnell’s Republican Senate primary…
#2010 Elections
Flamesem & Japesem (Operation American Freedom)
Note: Duty (survival) is calling, and, though I have a couple of more theoretical than topical posts that I might polish up and publish, I expect that otherwise my blogging may be relatively light for the next few days, if…
No alternatives
David Brooks’ Friday column consists of a rather melancholic “what might have been,” an “Alternate History” in which the Democrats under Obama’s leadership put up “No Quick Fixes” signs all around the White House, and “define themselves as the economic…
The great set-up
In the process of wrapping up a detailed “crystall ball” prediction on the mid-term elections – House takeover for the Rs, Senate on the bubble, big gains among governorships – the very non-partisan political scientist Larry Sabato makes the following…
Fred Davis – Auteur of Admen – vs. the “Mom in Tennis Shoes”
h/t Ben Smith’s Blog
CHART OF THE DAY – Heavens to Murgatroyd…
…and Great Caesar’s Ghost! Conservative Enthusiasm Surging Compared to Previous Midterms – Gallup.com
Is our politicians lurning?
The title was an old favorite of Dean Barnett’s (I think I’ve got it right). The occasion is a post over at Non-Zombie Contentions in which Jonathan Tobin takes a gander at the British Conservatives’ slo-mo political trainwreck. His summary:…
Posted in Politics Tagged with: 2010 Elections, Conservatism, David Cameron, David Frum, Europe, Tory
Paul Ryan on Real Progressivism
Many people believe Democracy obsolete. They are wrong. Obsolete is the one thing Democracy can never be. R. Buckminster Fuller – “No More Secondhand God” In responding to Rep. Paul Ryan’s speech to the Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs on…
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