Month: February 2012

In theory, Mitt Romney could regain his lead against Obama among independents as quickly as he lost it. But I don’t think that is likely to happen. Romney’s plunge isn’t related to any particular gaffe. More...

It must be nice to be Charles Murray: a successful 30 year career of lies and distortions that bring in the big bucks.  And now he’s talking smack about my adopted hometown, Philadelphia.   I’d like to see...

Charles R. Pierce – whose ability to combine thoughtfulness and snark has made him one of my more favorite political writers in legacy media the last couple of years – has a post surveying a few of the nuttier...

The way I see it is that we can go two ways with the nominating process. We can decide that the two major parties aren’t really parties. They are just brands. People stand for nomination, but the general electorate decides...

Gee, it’s been fun to talk about contraception, and the US Catholic Bishops’ opposition to providing contraceptive care to employees of their affiliated charities and hospitals. But, to be honest, for a religious...