Month: September 2012

http://federaldaily.com/articles/2012/09/25/bipartisan-group-of-senators-pledge-to-compromise-to-avo id-sequestration.aspx?s=FD_260912 Blue Dogs are about to sell us out again. The Democrats blinked first.

Do you ever get tired of reading analysts who ignore that the presidential contest is a competition between two human beings and try to predict what will happen by looking at economic data or other historical factors? For me,...

I think that Paul Waldman is probably right that the conservatives will learn approximately nothing from their drubbing in November. In fact, the logical reset will be to look to Jeb Bush to save the Republicans in 2016, but he...

From high atop the Scrapple News Tower, it’s time for our weekly news-reel. This week: Liposuction! Iran! And, a magical rainbow pony! If you enjoy this, tell all your friends!  If you don’t, don’t tell...

As Michael Pollan pointed out in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, we have become the people of the corn.  Only we don’t seem to get that notion.  If we did, alarm bells over this past summer’s drought in the...