Month: January 2015

I know that Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) doesn’t have “a racist bone in his body,” but it’s hard to reconcile that with his actions. The third-ranking member of the House Republican leadership didn’t...

I’m one of those geeks who actually enjoys looking at (and even trying to predict) who serves on which committees in Congress, so I am actually always abreast of who is on the verge of taking over as the chairman or...

UPDATE: As Oui points out in the comments, this is actually old news involving the cancellation of the South Stream pipeline and its affects on Europe. The seemingly new angle mentioned was that the cutoff of gas going through...

I guess Ronald Reagan ran for president two times before he actually won, but does 1968 really count? And another thing: isn’t it easier to bounce back from narrowly losing the nomination than it is to recover from getting...

I have a lot of negative things to say about Dr. Ben Carson but my understanding is that he was a tremendously talented pediatric neurosurgeon. And when you are separating conjoined twins or performing an hemispherectomy, it...