Month: October 2013

Senate Career Advice for Cory Booker

If you aren’t a long-time observer of New Jersey politics, you probably won’t understand all the simmering tensions between Camp Menendez and Camp Booker. Nor will you understand why, in nine cases out of ten, you...

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The Super Hot California Model

Everybody seems to be flogging the top-two primary system that has been instituted in California and Washington state as the antidote to hyper-partisanship and gridlock. I favor the top-two system, but not because I think it is...

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Casual Observation

I don’t know quite what to say other than that Bruce Labay and David Ladwig are extremely stupid individuals. And they seem to be part of a much larger tribe of monstrously stupid people.

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Thought Experiment

Reading this article about the potential for the Republican Party to split in two if they lose the 2016 presidential election, I began to wonder how the 20th-Century would have played out differently if the Republican Party...

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Riding the Tiger

It seems like almost every major news organization in the country is running an article about how the business community is frustrated with the Tea Party and contemplating how they can wrest back control of the Republican Party...

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