Where will the nation be in the next four years? According to Dave Barry’s latest:
[T]he conventions are over. We won’t go through this again for another four years. And we have no way of knowing where the nation will be then. No, wait, we do: the toilet. I don’t know about you, but I’m [...]
If your a political junkie, then you should know by now that Congressman Todd Akin is not ready for prime time. Maybe he never was. It is time for him to do the right thing for the GOP and the state of Missouri: drop out of the Senate race.
Both political parties have strains of [...]
The Democrats are spinning this morning that Congressman Paul Ryan will not be in Florida today because of his stance on Medicare. Is that the best they can do?
In Congressman Paul Ryan we finally have someone running for national office who can explain, in plain English, why we must make tough choices [...]
Want to know what is going to happen in the 2012 election? Stand in line. No one really knows. The political professionals who do this for a living, are in high season. They will do what they do best and fight for win until the very end.
The political convention season beckons. The Republicans head [...]
After living high on the federal hog, Spain’s Left is upset. Very upset. They see it all slipping away and they are doing something very French, and irrational, taking to the streets to make their point.
Spain’s conservative government announced yesterday a painful, $65 billion worth of spending cuts and tax hikes. [...]
If you think you’ve seen the last of the DC fiscal budget debates, this is just the beginning. Judging by the media coverage this week, most commentators and financial analysts may know a lot about money, but little about policymaking and politics. Capitol Hill has its own special tune and folks on the outside (i.e., [...]
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Jeff Foust of The Space Review concludes that the Congress is the “biggest obstacle” to export control reform. His post can be read here. I tend to agree with Foust, however, not for the same reasons. The Congress is an easy target for voters and politicians to beat on [...]
This afternoon I did an interview for the CNN Español evening political news segment on the mid-term Congressional elections and recent poll data suggesting that there could be a shift in Congressional control.
What I said off camera was a lot more interesting, but the reporter kept trying to ask a question that, [...]
A new chapter in a once promising story for Central American democracy is being written in the streets of Managua. Faced with possible defeats at the ballot box, it appears as if elements of the Sandinista Party have devolved to their old, Cold War ways.
In an speech before a Joint Session [...]
Barack Obama and Joe Biden made history yesterday. There is no doubt that the Democratic wins have changed the political landscape. At least from a perception viewpoint, our country has ideologically “changed.” But you really need to dig a little deeper.
The Obama-Biden win was no landslide, far from it. While the Democrats won some new seats in [...]
For some odd reason only Foggy Bottom dwellers will likely comprehend, the Bush Administration has invited the United Nations (UN) to help set the tone for the 2008 elections. How so? According to a UN press release issued last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and [...]
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