October 8, 2010
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
I love those Dos Equis commercials, where an older, bearded Spanish guy is seen cavorting with beautiful women, conquering the most challenging challenges, doing the most fascinating things. Here are some reasons why he is the most interesting man in...
October 7, 2010
Congress Leading the Race to the Bottom
Matt Bai has an interesting column in today’s New York Times about what voters are really thinking in this election, and isn’t about issues. According to focus groups, what most worries voters is the decline of civil society and its...
October 5, 2010
The Tea Party’s Future
(Originally published on Votesane.com) The Republican Party was born in 1854 from the ashes of the Whig Party, which disintegrated over the issue of slavery. Over the course of its more than 150 years in existence, the Grand Old Party...
October 5, 2010
Education as a wedge issue
(Originally posted on TheHill.com 10/4) Over the weekend, the NAACP and the NEA, without the slightest bit of irony, marched hand in hand in Washington in a rally that was touted as “One Nation Working Together.” This comes on the...
October 4, 2010
Spin Shields The Truth
The headline in yesterday’s New York Times blared: “House Majority Still Uncertain, Republicans Say.” Politico reports this morning, “Democrats seize on signs of hope.” On the one hand, you have Republican strategists trying to play down expectations so that when...
October 1, 2010
Regular Order
When Denny Hastert started as Speaker of the House, he promised, after four tumultuous years of Newt Gingrich, to bring regular order back to the lower chamber. To Hastert, regular order meant that the House would do its business in...