Joshing Politics

George Bush may be out of office but Republicans are still giving to his base...and robbing the rest of us to pay for it.

I've been listening to President Obama give speeches since he was a State Senator from Illinois. I know he can give a great speech. For ...

Simply put, last night was a rough one for the Democratic Party. Sixty or so seats in the House, six or seven in the Senate and a plethora o...

I know it's been forever since I've opened my blogger's publisher tool, but I just had to take a minute to post this message: ...

Teabaggers are nuts. They have no real solutions to helping our country out of it's morass. Yet they know how to get under the skin and ...

Generally elections are static events, especially in primary contests. Few people vote and for the most part, the incumbents are able to use...

One of the best institutional guards for incumbency is that multiple challengers can split the vote for change in a district. Even if more v...

This really should be a no-brainer, but with the way things are going in American Conservatism a good old fashioned book burning isn't s...

Money and politics have always had a contentious relationship, generally alienating people from the process who do not have much to give to ...

There are many terrible crimes that one person can perpetrate on another....and a hate crime is certainly one of them. When Ahmed Sharif was...

Alan Keyes may be a Republican, but when the G.O.P. moves so far to the extreme right that they are thinking about tampering with the 14th A...

The deadline for our state government to fulfill their obligation of passing a state budget came and went long before our sultry summer, and...