June 19, 2013
5:15 p.m.
Nate Cohn FIGURES that President Obama’s dip in the polls probably won’t last very long:
The president’s approval rating has dipped, probably because of the NSA surveillance revelations or the accumulated effect of supposed or actual scanda...
June 19, 2013
5:15 p.m.
Steve Benen has the story HERE:
When the Heritage Foundation launched an offensive against comprehensive immigration reform in early May, it focused its attention almost exclusively on one area: the legislation’s price tag. After all, one of the ...
June 19, 2013
5:15 p.m.
A few weeks after the election of last November, I wrote THIS:
[S]ome political pundits don’t like polling analyst Nate Silver (above). They don’t appreciate how he uses mathematical analysis to read the political tea leaves while they depend o...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
How dumb is THIS?
You might call North Dakota the antithesis of President Obama’s political base.
Whites make up 90 percent of its population, which is fewer than one million people and mostly in rural areas. Its proportion of people 65 and over excee...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
Hmmm. All that talk of a few weeks ago about impeaching President Obama for his involvement in IRS targeting of conservative groups (see HERE, for example) suddenly seems to have faded away.
I wonder why. Does it have anything to do with the fact that ...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
As I’ve noted on previous occasions (HERE, for example), polls on the matter of snooping by the National Security Agency and how to deal with NSA leaker Edward Snowden have shown divergent results that blur the lines between the left and right o...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
In recent weeks, and especially over the past few days, this humble little blogging enterprise has been plagued by various technical problems, some of which have made it difficult or impossible for prospective readers to connect with us.
But thanks to ...
June 18, 2013
5:15 p.m.
Gee whiz! What a surprise THIS is!
Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) believes women have no place in elite military units, he said Tuesday in a Facebook post accusing President Barack Obama and the Defense Department of enacting a policy change that does...
June 18, 2013
5:15 p.m.
THIS is going to confuse the hell out of some wingnuts:
Bill Ayers [above] believes President Obama should be put on trial for war crimes at The Hague, the Weather Underground co-founder told Real Clear Politics in an interview posted Tuesday.
Ayers t...
June 18, 2013
5:15 p.m.
The U.S. Constitution requires supermajority votes in the Senate only in very limited circumstances — mainly to approve treaties and override presidential vetoes.
The Founding Fathers had no intention that a supermajority would be required for Se...
