Month: May 2012

“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of...

If Jackson Diehl is a thoughtless warmonger, Richard Cohen is an indescribably stupid man. Everything I said about Diehl’s advocacy of war with Syria can be said six-fold about Cohen’s argument. I’m not even...

We have records of the popular vote in our presidential elections going back to 1824. In all that time, there have been only 11 presidents who were elected to a second (consecutive) term. With the exception of the first, Andrew...

I’m worried. I really am. Here we are in May…months before the conventions…yet it appears that all the cards are stacking up against poor Willard. Been stacking up since this ridiculous campaign began. A...

it appears that most of my time today is going to be dedicated to wiping Finn’s runny nose. It’s like a faucet. I did discover, however, that the British committee charged with investigating (pdf) Rupert...