Here I Stand
About ten days ago my mother-in-law received a letter from the Republican Party’s national chairman,
Carville Ups The Hypocrisy Bar
Remember James Carville, the chihuahua-on-steroids Democratic Party strategist who came up with the idea of making
Hitler’s Calculation and the Sorry State of American Politics
Adolf Hitler was a poor student of mathematics, but he got the hang of it sufficiently to figure how to take over the German government. A "majority," Hitler reasoned, consisted of 51 per cent of the votes necessary to control 51 per cent of the seats in the legislature - - 26 per cent of those voting, in other words. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans now find themselves victims of the same political calculation.
Forgetting Ronald Reagan
Republicans generally regard Ronald Reagan as a fine man and a great President. Conservatives, who are not all Republicans, tend to feel the same way. So why is it that Republicans in general, and especially conservative Republicans, now go out of their way to besmirch the best advice they were ever given by a man they revere?