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Many want Barack Obama to return to the optimism of his 2008 campaign. It’s hard to be a Liberal these days. Our supposed savior seems to be moving slowly but steadily to the right as he concedes to conservatives on issue after issue. Our...
The inefficient provision of government services…out of control government spending…up to our ears in debt… In the UK and the US alike, politicians and pundits flood the airwaves with these catchphrases. Indeed, the idea that government...
She has explored witchcraft and condemns masturbation. Despite her unconventional past and viewpoints, the Delaware Republican Senate candidate for the past 2010 election, Christine O’Donnell, although she lost, was not at the margins of the...
As the election season entered its final push, the dueling Colbert-Stewart rallies took on something of a critical gravity. And, as the election fervor finally starts to fade, it seems as if another set of rallies — or, as they’ve...
And the Tea Party defers… to the establishment—or so optimistic conservatives have been given reason to believe. Michele Bachmann—the House’s Tea Party Caucus founder—has pulled her name from the race for Republican Conference Chairperson,...
Per Peggy Noonan’s recent piece in the WSJ: “Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service. And you need...
The message, as the entire political punditry has explained, is that the president has been repudiated. And while his party certainly lost, whether or not Mr. Obama has been scorned by the electorate falls firmly outside the purview of what...
It looks like the incumbent Senatorial candidate form Alaska, Murkowski, has won the election there AS A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE. This is unprecedented, because the whole point of our “democracy” is that you can’t win without the...
Tea Party Protesters at a 'Refounding America' Rally At first, I thought the Tea Party movement would be a good thing for the Republican Party. It was destroyed in the 2008 elections: John McCain failed to motivate the conservative base...
Up top for Jesus! …The Catholic Church revised its rules for dealing with the sexual abuse of children. Abandoning its medieval ways, the Vatican directed bishops to report cases of sexual abuse to the police, lifted the statute of limitations...
