An article from the Wilson Quarterly, the Woodrow Wilson Center for scholars: “The Irrational Electorate.” By Larry Bartels who directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, published […]

Maybe it’s time to change the Pennsylvania state slogan, “You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania”, to something like: “You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania… if you’re a working-class racist slimeball Democrat.” Now, don’t misunderstand; that’s not my view of Pennsylvanians — it’s the view of Pennsylvania Democrat Jack Murtha. Congressman Murtha told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: […]

Investor’s Business Daily had a great editorial: “Should Congress Be ‘Perp-Walked’?” They say, “A federal grand jury in New York is probing the accounting shenanigans at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s about time, and we hope it doesn’t end there. Remember the early 2000s, when companies such as WorldCom, Enron, Tyco and Xerox suddenly […]

The election’s over, Chuck Todd said so today on MSNBC. All the polling data, a tipping point’s been reached, folks, it’s all headed in the direction of Obama. The only good sign for McCain is that the debate is tonight with Palin, but Palin is so incompetent and unqualified, that’s a loser. Gwen Ifill is […]

Last week — just outside Baghdad, at a palace once occupied by Saddam Hussein — Defense Secretary Robert Gates presided over an understated ceremony attended by top Iraqi and American officials. There, General David Petraeus handed over the flag of his command, the Multi-National Force, and said his farewells. The farewell came almost a year […]