Zombie Politics

For someone who just lost an election, President Obama looks an awful lot like a winner . That's largely due to his recent trip to Asia ...

As Congress tries to steamroll President Obama into building the Keystone XL pipeline , oil billionaire Harold Hamm says it's a waste of...

From SF Gate... “Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to this country,” declares the wealthy, rakish, silver-haired Newport Beach white...

Jules Verne published Off on a Comet in 1877. Its plot is rather silly, but really no sillier than Interstellar and Gravity. Now one of ou...

Remember, before the election, when Ebola was going to kill us all? The nurse in Maine who wanted to ride her bicycle was endangering everyo...

In a recent CBS interview, the president vowed to move on immigration if Congress does not act. The Republicans may have won the most recen...

Mark and I went to see Interstellar this past Sunday. It's been compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey , a notion perpetuated by director Ch...

Here's an interesting piece from my local paper on how the Democrats won on the issues but lost with candidates. Some choice cuts. -V...

Regarding the election being a referendum on President Obama... This election was a weird referendum on Obama. His core supporters voted ...

US News has an interesting graphic up that shows just how bad voter turnout was in the election last Tuesday. Barely 40 percent in Arkansas...

The Republicans had their day in the sun yesterday winning (for right now) a 52 seat majority to 45 for the Dems. Alaska looks like it will ...

Twas the night before the midterms and all seems lost for the Democrats... I'm still not changing my prediction. It's going to end...

There have been several articles, like this one , that say Republicans win more seats in off election years because Democrats are disappoint...

U.S. Economy Grows at Steady Clip  The economy grew at a solid pace during the third quarter, driven by an uptick in military spending and...

Everyone in Maine is shaking in their boots because Kaci Hickox went on a bike ride . Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Afr...