Month: January 2013

You may have noted over the years that I very rarely link to or discuss polls about issues or job approval numbers or even elections. In the presidential race, I mainly linked to Nate Silver’s analysis of polls rather than...

We are a violent nation. A nation where far too many of us have worshiped at the alter of the God of Guns and the consequences of that worship, a culture steeped in violence, particularly violence blasted out of the barrel of a...

Between the centennial of the battle and the address of Gettysberg http://www.ajc.com/news/news/gene-patterson-a-flower-for-the-graves/nTt8Q/ A Negro mother wept in the street Sunday morning in front of a Baptist Church in...

Hey, indeedy. Steve Benen and Jon Chait have a laugh at Michael Gerson’s expense. Because, Gerson actually wrote this: Gerson sees this [budget] standoff as confirmation of Obama’s cynicism. Obama, he writes, “knows that...

I assume that because the Republicans can steal most of the Electoral College votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, that they will at least try to do so. Virginia, Florida and Ohio, I think they will leave alone. Let...