Romney has a history of surviving poor decision-making by gulping down federal largesse.   He's built up an impressive mythology about someone who makes things work.  It's true when he speaks about at Bain as a job maker, conveniently … [Read more...]

367 days ago, I wrote a list of predictions for 2011.   Many joined in with theirs.  How did we do?  Well....huh... Most annoyingly, after I specifically predicted that Kim Jong Il would not die, he went off and kicked the bucket just in … [Read more...]

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin   Hey Republicans--   Given that the Iowa Republican Party is going to assemble the caucus "results" in a dark, … [Read more...]

Read that a bipartisan group (uh-oh) including Dennis Kucinich (Uh-oh) recently filed suit against Barack Obama (UH-OH!) for violating the War Powers Act by staying in Libya.  An interesting breakdown of the case's chance for success here, … [Read more...]

I'm sorry.   I can barely bring myself to read the new BMG.  I can't really bring myself to write here.  The writers are the same.  The issues, too.  The content is what I like.  But for some reason, well, I loathe BMG. I loathe the … [Read more...]

Shortly before a midnight vote to strip rights away from some of the most organized and educated middle class working families in the state, a prominent corporate lawyer announced a need for union leaders to "tone down the rhetoric".  With … [Read more...]

The idea that Americans students lag behind others is a myth.   One around since the Cold War (see the 1958 cover story of Time).  Fact is, once you control for poverty, American students are as good as anyone else in the world if … [Read more...]

But I remember, Mommy, how you got mad.  Because I was in the kitchen standing on a stool, with part of a cookie in my hand, you thought that I broke the cookie jar!   I don't know why, Mommy, but that really hurt my feelings. … [Read more...]

Perhaps among the several hundred members of the site, not a single one believes that an attempted assassination of an American lawmaker was as newsworthy as, say, the statistics of pregnancies in New York (highly recommended!). … [Read more...]

World: 1. Portugal is bailed out by the IMF/EU, but Spain and Italy survive. 2. Kim Jong Il survives the year, but increasing reports and evidence indicate that the real power in the country is not him or his son, but Jang Song-taek. 3. … [Read more...]