I was starting to write a post about this Ed Koch endorsement of Obama. My plan was to point out what the piece said about Romney’s positions vs. his actual stated positions, highlighting the sometimes subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle distortions … Continue reading →
In the lastest New Yorker, John Cassidy writes: In my neck of artisanal, hormone-free Brooklyn, the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, which shows Mitt Scissorhands leading “The First Gay President” by three points, landed with a nasty thud. “I … Continue reading →
Richard Mourdock primaried and yesterday ousted six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in Indiana, and the MSM is very upset. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider succinctly points out: The only time the press weeps at the loss of a … Continue reading →
I’ve long been a Janine Turner fan because I’ve long been a big, big “Northern Exposure” fan. And I’ve been aware that lately she’s became a conservative political commentator, because I’ve seen her now and then on TV in that … Continue reading →
There was a lot of discussion in this thread yesterday about liberals being right-brained and conservatives left-brained, and/or liberals “feeling” and conservatives “thinking.” I think that’s an oversimplification. Sorry, but I know lots of very logical and rational liberals, very … Continue reading →
New York magazine’s Sasha Issenberg has a weak article on a topic that interests me, the difference between liberals and conservatives, and whether it’s hard-wired. In it, he (and some of the researchers he quotes) not only displays the typical … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting comment (the language is not quite what I’d use, but the sentiment is): there is no evidence, in the modern era, that a person more conservative than Reagan can win on a national level. the last person … Continue reading →
Jonathan Adler asks the question: why did legal elites underestimate the case against the mandate? You might want to give quick and flippant answers—such as, for instance, “because they’re stupid and biased”—but that really doesn’t tell us much. Legal elites … Continue reading →
Funny how the word “crazy” comes up quite a bit today, in modifying the words “Republicans” and “conservatives.” First we have the Daily Beast’s John Avlon with, “The Case for Crazy: What the GOP Would Learn by Picking Rick Santorum.” … Continue reading →
To someone such as me, who’s experienced a certain amount of liberal shunning and/or anger because of my political “change,” this report comes as no surprise whatsoever: [The Pew Research Center] found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or … Continue reading →
Stop the presses: E.J. Dionne has a good point: This Republican presidential campaign is demonstrating conclusively that there is an unbridgeable divide between the philosophical commitments conservative candidates make before they are elected and what they will have to do … Continue reading →
It used to be that candidates would make stump speeches and have debates, and that was the best guide you had to their intentions if they were to win—that, and their records. The latter consisted of the jobs they’d held … Continue reading →