Category: Bits and Pieces

How do you all think the Vice-presidential debate is going to go tonight?  Personally, I think Ryan will wipe the floor with Biden. Also, do Vice-presidential debates make any difference in elections?  Will they make any difference in this one?

Gallup has now split their results into registered voters and likely voters.  Obama leads among registered voters but Romney leads among likely voters.  When I predicted Obama would win, I said the one thing that could change the outcome is the debates.  So far, so good.  Here’s hoping the remaining

One school of thought suggests that adhering to a stronger conservative position benefits the Republican party.  Another says that the best way to appeal to crucial middle-of-the-road voters is to adopt a middle-of-the-road position on the issues.  This article contends that the tea party efforts on behalf of the first viewpoint have

I just went to get my (overdue) haircut at the hair salon, deep in that hardcore-Democrat lair that goes by the name of Cook (“Crook”) County, Illinois. The woman who has cut may hair for the past 20+ years works in a working-class hair salon that tends to employ lower-middle

According to Gallup, Romney has slipped from dead even to 6 points down in the last four or five days.  It is debatable whether these day-to-day changes mean anything at all, but such a quick shift is pretty dramatic.  It raises at least two questions, which I’m eager to hear

So why would the Obama administration overtly lie about what transpired in Libya? Because, on the anniversary of 9/11, Al Qaeda won a “battle” and this administration could only pretend otherwise. What most of the pundit media seems to have missed, including the inestimable Mark Steyn and John Bolton, is

Whilst driving the upper Mississippi valley recently with my brilliant spouse, she asked me the most trenchant question of this election season: can anyone think of a single foreign or domestic program enacted by Barack Obama that has been successful…at least, from the perspective of the people of the United

The production values on this little video are primitive, but I still promise that you’ll be charmed to watch the next generation tackle politics head on.

My family needed me today. All of them. Every last one of them. I feel very needed. Separating need from want, while I wanted to read stuff on the internet and write things, and needed to take care of them. And I did. Tonight, I think I want chocolate ice

Sometimes real life is a pain in the whatsit.  Exercise was good, but I wasn’t thrilled that paying work (yes, real paying work), plus a doctor’s appointment for my Mom not only dragged me away from blogging, but dragged me away from thinking about blogging.  Feh! Tomorrow should be a