Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Depressed today. Decided to do a risk assessment of possible (and impossible) and likely (and unlikely) outcomes. Feel free to chime in. McCain & Palin win and Republicans eke out a majority in Congress: Impossible. McCain & Palin win and Democrats retain control over Congress: Less and less likely. Obama
Continue readingYesterday, I urged you to read Thomas Lifson’s January 2006 article looking to the two political seasons that affect most Americans — the long inattention season and the short attention season. Today, Thomas was good enough to revisit his original premise and analyze how it helps Republicans generally (which is
Continue readingAlmost three years ago, Thomas Lifson wrote what I think is one of the most important political analyses I’ve ever read — and one that goes a long way to explaining the way in which American voters are slowly abandoning Obama and coalescing around the McCain ticket. Thomas believes that
Continue readingThe good thing about living in a liberal community is that you get to hear how ordinary people — not the pundit class and the media — think. I blogged yesterday about one elderly woman’s absolute trust in the MSM. If they say it, it must be true, all actual
Continue readingThe Times may have refused to publish McCain’s Iraq editorial (afraid, no doubt, that publishing it would cast a shadow on Obama’s purported wisdom), but I have no such fear. Here’s, courtesy of the Drudge Report, is the op-ed McCain wrote — and it’s an op-ed that any reasonable, non-partisan
Continue readingSee important update below. I have been trying without success for a couple of weeks now to volunteer my writing and editing services to the local “John McCain for President” chapter. No one is getting back to me — and I’ve been told by someone with ties to the local
Continue readingOne of the first things you learn as litigation defense counsel is that you will lose if you let the plaintiff control the case’s message. It’s easy to let this happen, because the plaintiff comes out of the gate like gangbusters, and the defendant finds himself, logically, in a defensive,
Continue readingWhether we forget or remember the past, sometimes we seem doomed to repeat it. Certainly with all the candidates, the analogies to historic times flow freely. The two big analogies, of course, are World War II and the Vietnam War, depending on whether voters view Islamists or fellow Americans as
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