Month: September 2014

Sen. Pat Roberts Should Not Be Favored

I think Nate Silver is brilliant and very, very good at predicting elections, but he’s only as good as the data he has to work with, and he is capable of making small mistakes or developing models that are too clunky to...

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Giordano on Clinton

Al Giordano’s call to arms is provocative and somewhat inspirational. And when Al makes a prediction, you best take it seriously. I do have some problems with his analysis, however. I think he’s shoehorning a lot of...

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Serious Question

If you were forced to choose between ending legal divorce, banning gay marriage, making contraception illegal, or restoring 19th-Century sabbath laws that banned work and play on Sundays, which would you choose? One of those...

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Casual Observation

It doesn’t seem to make any sense to poll the public at large about whether “Redskins” is an offensive racial slur. Is it a big surprise that the majority of non-Native Americans think that the term is...

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We Have an Opioid Epidemic

Don’t get me wrong. Chronic pain is a real thing and we need solutions for people who suffer from it. But we also need to get real about an epidemic that is slaughtering our people at a very alarming rate. Just in Staten...

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