Driving in to work this morning, I caught a bit of the Hugh Hewitt show. I’m not sure who Hugh was interviewing, but the topic was the Republican repeal of Obamacare and attempts to improve the legislation as it is taken up by the Senate. The brief segment that I caught (before sliding Rush’s Grace […]
There is currently a bit of a controversy in the state of Florida involving a high-profile murder case. A man named Markeith Loyd killed his pregnant girlfriend, and later killed an Orlando Police officer who attempted to arrest him. After a manhunt that took the life of another cop, he was finally arrested. Elected State […]
Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for President in 2012, just published an op-ed in the Washington Times in which he griped about not having been given enough free air time in the 2012 Presidential elections. (A rather interesting complaint from a supposed libertarian.) I was immediately suspicious. Is it possible Gary Johnson really has a contribution […]
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet I used to think that labeling the Affordable Care Act as “Obamacare” was a good idea for the GOP, particularly during the Presidential Election of 2012. At that time, the goal for the Republicans was to […]
A commenter to the blog recently posted a frustration with colleagues at work who had a knee-jerk response to the word “Republican”. The commenter was not necessarily a Republican, but was a person who was willing to listen to ideas regardless of the origin of those ideas. That got me thinking about something which has […]
Jerry Seinfeld tells a funny joke about public speaking. He noted that a recent survey asked Americans what they were most afraid of, and death came in at number 2. Number 1 was public speaking. So if you’re at a funeral, Seinfeld summarizes, most people would rather be the one in the coffin than the […]
A brief post today to announce a new page on my blog – My Conservative Bookshelf. From time to time I will add book recommendations and brief reviews of books that have shaped my thinking. To date I’ve only added four books – the books I’ve read or reread most recently – but I hope […]
There is a very dangerous and stupid analysis floating around the Republican blogosphere that goes something like this: John McCain got 2 million more votes that Mitt Romney. How can this be? Either Romney was a terrible candidate – unable to win even all of the McCain voters from 2008, or evangelical Christians refused to […]
I made a comment in my previous post that it was hard to imagine the 2012 turnout was much less than the 2008 turnout. Votes are still being counted, but at this point it looks as though the turnout was lower than in 2008 by about 8 or 8.5%, which is pretty substantial. Columnists are […]
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