National Politics
Fredrick C. Harris is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of Columbia University’s Center on African-American Politics and Society. In the world of academia, his racial/political bona fides are beyond reproach. so when he proposes that our first African-American President hasn’t adequately addressed racial inequality, it’s worth a read. In his Price of…
Yep, democracy is over. Scott Walker won by ordering the Wisconsin National Guard to stand in front of the voting booths and shoot any likely Tom Barrett voter who entered. Yes, democracy is dead. Wait, what? Walker won because the opposition successfully pulled off getting a recall vote but then more voters sided with Walker…
David Scharfenberg points to an interview that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse did with ThinkProgress in which he claims the five Supreme Court justices who ruled against Whitehouse’s preference on Citizens United shouldn’t have even been allowed to rule because they didn’t have the right experience to judge: Unfortunately you had the five right-wing judges, none of…
In a recent column, Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, authors of the new book It’s Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, state that the Republicans are to blame for congressional gridlock. As I tweeted earlier,…
Presumably referencing the divisive and pointless class war which the campaign of President Barack Obama (and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse) feels it needs to wage in order to win re-election, David Burge, aka Iowahawk, tweeted this remark Friday night. (H/T Instapundit Glenn Reynolds.) Apparently, I’m supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with…
Back in college, it was a matter of some classroom literary discussion that relativist thinkers still went about their daily lives as if they believed something to be true. (True enough, it appeared often to be that they deserved tenured sinecures that allowed them freedom to ruminate.) To broad readers of conservative political commentary, this…
Whether your response is excited, angered or tepid (ahem), Mitt Romney won 6 out of 10 primaries/caucuses last night, including the supposed bellweather, rust-belt state of Ohio. Though the latter was close, he still won it. Yet, as avowed Romney-supporter (some would say shill) Jennifer Rubin writes, you would think that Romney lost by winning…
Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that only 27% believe government can adequately “manage the economy” and 50% thinks it makes things worse when it tries to “help”. Rasmussen focuses on why this attitude explains “why politicians can’t connect with the middle class”. (Incidentally, Steve Laffey’s film, Fixing America provides further evidence of this point). Upper-income Americans…
Glenn Reynolds points to a Republican Study Committee graphic that asks, “Where Are the Jobs?“. The above chart shows the “labor force participation rate.” This statistic represents the share of working-age Americans who are either employed or unemployed but looking for work. It is not a pretty picture. Only 63.7% of working-age Americans are currently…
I mean, really….it doesn’t even seem like he’s trying anymore. Rehashing the same tired lines, delivered at an 8th grade reading level. It just reinforces the perception that President Obama likes the idea of being President much more than actually doing the job. Good thing the GOP has such a strong field of candidates….