Quick, answer these three questions. Which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives? Who is the U.S. Secretary of State? Who is the British Prime Minister? Easy, right? Well, if you got all three correct, you scored better than 82% of your fellow American who took the quiz. The questions were part of a Pew [...]

With the $700 billion market bailout inflating the power of government and a big-spending, big-regulating lDemocrat or a big-spending, big-regulating Republican poised to take the White House, a lot of experts and politicians are giving last rites to small government. Just today, I’m reading the era of small government is over. And Reagan capitalism is [...]

Nothing turns me off like partisan anger. I know a lot of people like to get wrapped up in the false fury propagated by certain partisans, but I try to keep my irrational outbursts focused primarily on my beloved Dallas Cowboys. I don’t really understand those who feel the need to bring the gladiatorial spirit [...]

Just in case you missed it, the entire broadcast… Guests include Jon Corzine, Rob Portman, Erin Burnett, John Harwood, Paul Gigot and Ted Koppel. But still no Sarah Palin.

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Since Justin has made a fairly strong and persuasive argument in favor of the bailout bill currently being debated by the house, I offer in response a morning post from my personal blog setting forth the arguments against….. While it seems likely that the Democratic and Republican Congressional leadership will be successful in hammering the [...]

The author David Foster Wallace was found dead two days go from a suicide. Many of you probably know him as the mind behind “Infinite Jest,” but in 2000 he wrote a piece for The Rolling Stone about John McCain and his run for the White House. Trust me, it’s a must read…especially for observations [...]

It was bad enough that Kevin Cronin, Hawaii’s Chief Election Official, failed to register to vote for five months. It was part of the job qualification, but more importantly, he is supposed to set an example. By neglecting to register, he dismisses this important act as less important than his other duties. His excuse? Essentially, [...]

There’s a new website for those who are looking for something outside the usual partisanship. It’s called Bipartisan Bridge and is striving to be a meeting place/advocacy group for those who what politicians to work towards solutions and stop the endless bickering. Here’s how site founder Brad Kane describes the effort: The Bipartisan Bridge was [...]

I belong to this site called ReviewMe.com and from time to time somebody pays me to review their website and post it. The site this time is ActualPolitics.com, which bills itself as a political forum that gives users the ability to post stories about politics and have other users rate them with sliders that determine [...]

Looks like Iran engaged in a little saber rattling of its own today… From the WaPo: Iran said today it had test-fired a long-range missile capable of reaching Israel and U.S. troops in the region, a step promptly condemned by the Bush administration as heightening tensions over the country’s suspected nuclear weapons program. The roughly [...]

I’m sure many in the Bush administration are probably remembering that old saying, “Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.” Because while we freed the Iraqis from Saddam’s control and helped them get elections going, guess what they’re doing with this newfound influence? From Washington Post: BAGHDAD, June 13 — The Bush [...]

Not so long ago, “Big Government” was so out of favor that Democratic President Bill Clinton announced its era had come to an end. A decade later and it seems there’s no end in sight to the swelling of our federal government. The Republicans proved themselves greedy and incompetent and did little to rein in [...]

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Over at repptide, we’ve been taking the pulse of public opinion on a number of political issues. So when Hillary Clinton started making claims that it was sexism that was to blame for her campaign’s second-place showing, we wanted to see if she was right or if there were other factors that could have explained [...]

I’ve been seeing a lot of criticism of “elites” lately. And it seems to me like there is some sort of concerted effort to redefine the word. Its current definition is this… 1. (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons. [...]

But he is crafting a similar version of his own… From The Daily Press: Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has suggested he would oppose a bipartisan measure by Virginia Sen. Jim Webb to expand college tuition benefits for military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. McCain told reporters Monday he was working on [...]

Larry Lessig and Joe Trippi announced this Thursday what Change Congress will be. Here’s more from Wired… The professor wants legislators to promise to do four things which he says will reduce the influence of money on policymaking: To promise not to accept money from lobbyists and political action committees; support public financing of elections; [...]

I had mentioned this in a previous post’s comment thread that I can’t find now, but if politicians think that polls don’t matter, the public feels the exact opposite. From World Public Opinion: In sharp contrast to views recently expressed by Vice President Cheney, a new poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe [...]