Month: October 2010

I cannot make heads or tails out of the front-page Dexter Filkins story in the New York Times. It sounds like a rather serious and somewhat sophisticated effort to negotiate an end to fighting in Afghanistan, but it also sounds...

Republican Gov. Rick Perry is really running a nice show down in Texas. First the warehouse housing all Harris County (Houston’s) voting equipment burned up in a suspicious fire, and now thugs are harassing voters at...

It will be interesting if the Republicans pick up 15-20 seats in the South. Based on the New York Times’ reporting, we could see another solidification of the North/South realignment, which will then be amplified when it...

In 2000, there was a debate in Harlem between Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Bradley had high profile endorsements from prominent black athletes like Bill Russell and Michael Jordan, but polls indicated that blacks the Congressional...

The Republicans’ strength is built on sand. It’s almost wholly rooted in Democratic apathy rather than any kind of genuine support from swing-voters. People still hate the Republicans and trust Democrats more on the...