As anyone who reads this blog somewhat regularly knows, I feel there is a big risk of a President Bachmann in 2013. I have given plenty of reasons previously, but the biggest one that scares me is the enthusiasm gap on the left. A new Public Policy Polling poll verifies that fear: There’s been plenty […]
I’m sure this will cause some heads to explode: In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is “less popular than much maligned groups like […]
An article currently appearing on Fox 19 in Cincinnati asks if the media is fairly covering the Ruppert Murdoch hacking scandal. After giving a vague background on the story, they go to their analysis: In the great scheme of things,”News of the World” is pretty immaterial to News Corp.’s earnings, in the one percent range. […]
This could prove to be some real entertainment: As Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan comes to a final decision about running for president, several top national conservatives are encouraging him to join the race. Ryan, who has been seriously but quietly considering a presidential bid for several months, is expected to decide on a run in […]
(via Raw Story) When we hear about the extremes some Muslims go to when they punish spouses or children, a lot of Christians quickly blast the faith. It’s funny how quickly they forget a lot of the same “punishments” are also taught in the bible, but not Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz: Three years ago, Kevin Schatz […]
Sure we can’t trust politicians to do what they say, but now we also can’t trust them to even say something remotely truthful. Take Rick Perry for example: For a small-government conservative on the presidential campaign stump like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a new federal regulation forcing farmers to get commercial drivers licenses would make a […]
The man of “yes we can” seems more and more like “ehh I really don’t care”. That’s the feeling you get when you hear today’s big news from the campaign trail, in which President Obama rolled out his new “rural job initiative”: At the White House Rural Economic Forum in Peosta, Iowa, Tuesday, President Obama […]
We haven’t heard much from the News Corp/Murdoch hacking scandal lately. I think that is all about to change: A former News of the World reporter has alleged that there was a massive cover-up of phone hacking at the paper. Clive Goodman, the former royal reporter jailed for his role in phone hacking, wrote a […]
The big buzz today has been the change in the GOP Presidential field. Essentially we are now looking at three candidates. Here they are in this screenshot from the HuffPo: So the three we have to watch out for are Romney, Perry and Bachmann. All three of them are scary and can pose a possible […]
Warren Buffett has a great op-ed in today’s Times, in which he says it is time for Washington to extend the “shared sacrifice” we hear so much about to the rich, including himself: OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends […]