Friday, October 1, 2010
Businesspeople and politics - do they really mix?
SHARE Do businesspeople really understand the economy any better than non-businesspeople? They know how to make money for themselves of course, but does that really translate into their having better judgment on how to make the economy work for everyone?

       Sunday, September 12, 2010
Blue Dog Democrats bite Democratic Party
SHARE It's really difficult to see what the Democratic Party gains by running Blue Dog Democrats. Not only do they get a complete failure of messaging, but they don't even get reliable Democratic votes.

       Saturday, June 12, 2010
Hoo boy!
SHARE The deficit scolds are eagerly pushing their "catfood commission" (They just LOVE the idea of impoverishing all of our senior citizens to the point where they have to live on cat food).

       Friday, April 16, 2010
The Tea Partiers
SHARE Tea Party protesters seem to have hit a ceiling in terms of their popular appeal. They may yet turn towards sedition, but hopefully, the traditional media will now drop the silly pretense that they represent a growing grassroots movement.

(1 comments)        Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Torture and the meanings of words
SHARE Did President G.W. Bush "authorize torture"? Perhaps not, but the assertion by Karl Rove that Bush didn't reminds me of the famous Clinton statement "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I don't think Rove is precisely lying in his sentence. Not precisely, anyway.

       Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Democratic leadership and primaries
SHARE The leadership of the Democratic Party, the White House, the Democratic National Committee, the two Campaign Committees, need to stay out of primaries!!!

       Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Y'know, it's funny...
SHARE Kind of amusing to see right-wingers suddenly discover issues of free speech and respect for others.

       Tuesday, December 1, 2009
President's upcoming speech on Afghanistan
SHARE President Obama looks set to escalate the Afghanistan War. Bad idea. The US is in no shape to sustain such a conflict.

       Saturday, October 24, 2009
How seriously can we take media objections to the Fox News vs The White House "war"?
SHARE Just how seriously can we take criticism from "The Village" (Blogger term for the press corps) concerning the "war" between Fox News and the Obama Administration?

       Thursday, July 16, 2009
The hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court
SHARE There's never been much question that Sotomayor would succeed in the end, so any drama in the hearings has been "ginned up."

(1 comments)        Saturday, June 6, 2009
Recent protests in Philly
SHARE A summary of four recent protests along with answers to two questions

(1 comments)        Saturday, May 23, 2009
A "conflict" that never should have been
SHARE Absolutely amazing how a "conflict" can develop out of misreporting or "Reason 50 zillion and nine as to why the left blogosphere exists."

       Monday, April 20, 2009
DNI McConnell's credibility
SHARE In which we review a number of items that we DFH's strongly suspected was the case anyway.

(1 comments)        Saturday, April 11, 2009
Fascinating other side to the story
SHARE Seems the lack of enthusiasm in the Bush Administration's "realist" camp was shared by some unexpected players.

       Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Great Recession
SHARE Is it like the Great Depression? Sort of, because it's quite serious. Not really, because America has a pretty clear consensus on how to deal with it and some regulatory structures left over from that period that have prevented a full-blown repeat.

(1 comments)        Thursday, March 26, 2009
President Obama reaches out to Iran
SHARE It's far too early to judge whether Obama's speech to Iran and the Iranian people will be effective, but it's a worthwhile experiment.

       Monday, January 19, 2009
Philly Peace March
SHARE Philadelphia conducted a rally and a march on the occasion of President-elect Obama passing through to remind him "The Peace Movement is still here."

(1 comments)        Friday, January 2, 2009
Reflection on eight years from Bush's aides
SHARE Bolten and Hadley struggle with Bush's popularity and fail at explaining their boss to the American people.

(2 comments)        Monday, November 17, 2008
WaPo frets over allegations of liberal bias
SHARE The Washington Post Ombudsman is very concerned over what she describes as "liberal bias," but it's not clear that there's really a problem there.

       Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election reactions
SHARE More arguments against bipartisanship after Tuesday's election results.