Last week the dunces driving America’s automobile industry down the washboard road to oblivion, left their corporate jets in Motown and drove hybrid cars to Washington, DC to once again plead their case for a bailout. Having seriously misjudged the symbolic (and, therefore, political) importance of modes of transportation, these transportation moguls were, for [...]

History is made! For the first time since 1961, small children will live at the White House. Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but neither was really a child anymore, and neither was (at the time, at least), particularly photogenic. Some social scientist somewhere should examine why three [...]

(With an Added Bonus Regarding Negative Politics)
What follows is an excerpt from a book I sort-of published in the mid-1990’s.  By “sort of”, I mean that it was rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America because it was too long (560 pages) and had a limited potential market.  The Republican National Committee [...]

Here’s an old joke most of us have heard:
Q:    How can you tell when politicians are lying?
A:    Their lips are moving.
Here’s not-a-joke that most people don’t know:
Q:    Why do politicians lie?
A:    Because voters will not tolerate truth from politicians.
Bear with me as I take a somewhat roundabout way of demonstrating my point.
While it may not [...]

It ain’t worth a pitcher of warm piss!*
- John Nance Garner, VP under FDR
[* The media in the 1940's were unable to print this pithy quote verbatim and substituted “spit” for “piss”. The quote is repeated accurately but, frankly, I like “spit” better.]
The nation waited with ‘bated breath to learn whom Barak Obama would [...]

Russian historian/novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow at the age of 89. A great man has passed on to what, if there is any justice in the universe, is a great reward. In his book The Case For Democracy, fellow Soviet dissident and refusnik Natan Sharansky listed Solzhenitsyn, along with Ronald Reagan and [...]

Stephen Ambrose, author of popular histories including Citizen Soldier, D-Day and Band of Brothers, specialized in telling the history of war by personalizing it at the grunt level – kind of an historian’s version of journalist Ernie Pyle. If, in the words of Von Clausewitz, generals must deal with “the fog of war”, then [...]

THE LITTLE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER
(AND HOW THEY EXPLAIN WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE TAKING SO LONG)
“As long as we count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” — Boss Tweed
“Factions will always emerge in any organization whose members believe the organization’s goals are important.” Howard’s Law
When you get right down to the [...]

On a torturous path from Eleanor Clift’s Newsweek article today (4-18-08), and an op-ed piece in the Washington Post by Democratic pollster Doug Shoen (4-16-08), we arrive at the long-expected point where nut-cutting takes place in the Democratic marathon for the nomination.
None of the writers or periodicals may be counted as part of the Vast [...]

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One of the many blessings of the internet is that any idea, no matter how idiotic, can get exposure to the gullible public.  During the political season, rumors and urban legends abound and we take this opportunity to shed a [...]