Zombie Politics

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional u...

In a democracy the business of government needs to be open and transparent: we need to see what our elected representatives are saying and ...

Can you imagine? Donald Trump is involved in another controversy that has nothing to do with Barack Obama's birth certificate! Miss Pe...

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker survived the recall effort and won 1,334,430 to Barrett's 1,161, 870. These results pretty much jibe wit...

I was expecting Scott Walker to survive the Wisconsin recall vote, and he did. There were basically three reasons: First: money, money, mo...

Thanks to Nikto (and me a little) we have a link to Electoral-Vote.com , the premier site for election year goings-on. Andy does a great jo...

The editorial board of Bloomberg News put up a recent piece which perfectly summarized the answer to "Who's to blame" for our...

Uh...I'll go out on a limb here and say...because he's white?

Over at the Washington Post, Fred Hiatt asks whether Obama or Romney would be more likely to fix the nation's budget problems . He spend...

Chamber’s Donohue Grades Obama on Economy: C+ Not an F? Not Armageddon? I don't get it. Considering the source of this rating, th...

Capitalism is too important to be left to ... capitalists . It turns out that capitalism is a marvelous creation for efficiently pro...

Yesterday's tough economic news has sent the media into a tizzy. How can the president possibly win re-election now? After all, it's...

I'm still amazed when I hear the right whine about the liberal media. To begin with, isn't that playing the victim card? Yes. Yes ...

A central tenet of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and conservative orthodoxy in general is that taxes on wealthy "job creators...

What amazes the most about these figures is not the disparity but the willful ignorance of the right ...