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 […]

Yo Fred…one more reason Huckabee is trending to be the Bushco-Rove replacement “decider”

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 […]

. . . 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 […]

I give Obama two thumbs up in Manchester, New Hampshire yesterday.  He was colloquial, believeable … maybe even electable… in 2016.  He’s saying the same things Mr and Mrs Clingon said when Perot handed them the White House in November 1992.  The difference is that Mrs Clingon don’t say that stuff no more.  She’s been bamboozled […]

Barack Hussein Obama says we shouldn’t return to the “divisive” rhetoric… well, I don’t know where the likes of him and Shrum and Frum and the rest of them bobbleheads have been cuz we never left the Plains of Divisiveness.  Remember when Lyndon Johnson was around…  Labor Day used to mean something.  Welcome to post […]

While Barry Obama is getting his teeth whitened, while John Edwards is getting another $400 haircut and while Mrs Clingon is learning the focus group results of just how much cleavage her frumpy dress should reveal the number of functionally illiterate Americans continues to ramp up at a rate that makes the Guggenheim a candidate for the […]

Sounds like a movie title in the tradition of Eric Roemer.  But it’s just something else the right wing blogosphere and other GOP hatchet people can weigh in on.  Unlike Dick Nixon, who was a “pinhead” in the eyes of J. Edgar Hoover and for that never got into the FBI (if he did, he would […]

James Baker used to say that “cheap beer and dollar gas” was all that average Americans who bother to vote really care about.  In spite of all the angst generated by the “MSM and the blogosphere” current US stocks of oil can last us for about a month and, in spite of that, at-the-pump gas prices […]