In the midst of the discussion about the Bradley Effect and whether Hillary’s tears were contrived or spontaneous, the pivotal events march on by the minute. A couple of things: Bush is positioning himself as the savior of the Middle East and thinks he’s brokered a real Israeli/Palestinian peace accord. Is that […]

My interest in the Iowa caucuses stems from having lived there for most of two decades. I take mild offense at all the inbred-pig-farmer jokes made by people dissing the caucuses, although many of those same jokers are spot-on about the blinding cultural whiteness of the place. I’ve been to New Hampshire once in my […]

Our long national nightmare is almost over . . . the Iowa caucuses are tonight. One of the most ludicrous aspects of the 2008 campaign is that we’re doing this two days after New Year’s. (If a few other states had gotten their wish, we’d have done it around Christmas.) January 3 is the earliest […]

The issue of nations attempting to enrich uranium to “weapons grade” quality has been a carrot and stick issue during Democratic and Republican administrations, with results at best, mixed.  Is Mehmet, traveling from Ankara to Vienna by train really carrying the components for a super high tech “dirty bomb” inside his Wii?  What about Mussa, driving with his […]

In the post below, Leftcoast asks: How can Hillary lose? I think it’s even easier than Lefty suggests. Hillary loses . . . by getting the nomination.
Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Giuliani this week—even though Robertson is not the driving engine of the religious right he once was—indicates how the game is likely to go. The […]

Like Bob Dillon said before he reconverted to Judaism and moved back to Balibu (sorry, I’ve got a cold today), you don’t need to be a Jesuit to know which way the wind blows…  He might not win, but he won’t fumble.  Who will be his running mate on an indie ticket?

There are a handful of politicians running around the country on private jets, indebted- in many ways- to contributors, pretending to play the scripted role of the next “decider” for a post post-industrial, supersized, recession-in-denial democratic corporativist nation formerly known as the “United” States.  As the “war” continues to drain the national economy, a Democratic White House would face the […]

It’s a long twelve month slog to Election Day 2008 and if Dumbocrats acquiesce to ex-copresident Mrs Clingon’s sins of ego we may be driving to the electronic voting centers on fuel refined from $125/barrel oil.  John McCain would be a respectable loser for Republicans- the ex-POW as patsy… fatcat PIGs would enjoy nothing more than reaping the benefits of […]

Back in the late 1960s, early Clinton health care guru Ira Magaziner was the pride of Brown University.  One might have argued that whiz-kid Ira and antiwar icon Dr Benjamin Spock were indeed separated at birth.  But something funny happened on the way to Chicago.  Ira received a foundation grant and started touring US campuses preaching […]

. . . by reading this.
I’d try to fathom precisely why the folks putting on the Values Voter debate last night (which was blown off by Multiple Choice Mitt, Rudy, John the Baptist, and TV’s Fred, and attended only by the nutjobs in the field) felt the need to begin their debate in this manner […]