The Republican Party’s most electable candidate starts this race trailing Obama by only a few points in national polls. That seems like a promising development until you look at the map. At this point the most likely outcome of the…
The Republican Party’s most electable candidate starts this race trailing Obama by only a few points in national polls. That seems like a promising development until you look at the map. At this point the most likely outcome of the…
The Religious Right and Tea Party groups are making the case that Romney could have won if he had more clearly and unambiguously embraced their policies. They are determined to force the Republican Party to stop nominating “moderates,” on the…
Among the far-right entertainer class, 2012 was defined as the “takers versus makers” election. According to that narrative, Romney lost because the grasping poor wanted a President who would promise them “free stuff” instead of opening up opportunities to succeed…
Pressed up against the big shoulders of Chicago is a suburban county that has been governed by Republicans since sometime after Noah’s Flood. While the state of Illinois, which hasn’t seen full Republican leadership since the 1950’s, struggles with the…
A pair of Scottish businessmen found themselves alone late at night in Houston’s elite Memorial neighborhood. They went knocking on doors hoping someone would let them call a cab. Peter De Vries, age 28, was shot and killed by a…
The Securities Act of 1933 is one of the most elegant and successful pieces of complex legislation in history. In less than 60 pages it constructed a regulatory framework that would allow Wall Street to survive its self-immolation and re-emerge…
Overused terms can lose their meaning. Few words are thrown around as carelessly as Communism, Socialism, and Fascism. Socialism is not the cheese touch. There are realities behind these ideologies. Reducing a word like “Communist” to the rhetorical equivalent of…
See that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, I told you – I was one of those Leonard Cohen, First We Take Manhattan The images of college students thronging to Ron Paul campaign events…
When my father was young, my grandfather was seriously injured in a ranch accident. He was unable to work for an extended time and was never able to return to his previous job. While he struggled to recover and find…
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