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The View from Abroad: Part 1 -- The Half-Truth of the Short Campaign 25 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
While the folks in Washington take their summer vacations, I thought it would be interesting to spend a couple of posts on upcoming elections in some of our allies. Australia is scheduled to hold its...
Republicans could have a June 2016 convention #RNC2012 16 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
I can't say I blame them after the disaster that was the 2012 Republican nomination process and convention. There is "almost unanimity'' among party officials to move the nominating convention to a d...
San Francisco for 2016 Democratic National Convention? #DNC2016 16 Aug 2013 | 05:20 am
The San Francisco Bay Area is hosting America’s Cup and has bragging rights to the 2016 Super Bowl — so what’s next? Some Democrats are already suggesting city leaders get to work pursuing the 2016 D...
Philly for 2016 Democratic National Convention? #DNC2016 6 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady has his answer. Tomorrow, the city's Democratic Party chairman will make his case for a convention bid to political, tourism and labor leaders from the region. To do so, Brady is ...
Sunday with the Senators: An Issue of Ethics 4 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
The MSM big Senate story is Fancy Farm: Alison Lundergan Grimes saying that Mitch McConnell is so intractable that if he had a kidney stone he'd refuse to pass it. Along with Cook moving Kentucky to t...
GOP could move the 2016 Republican National Convention to July #RNC2016 2 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
According to a key official in the RNC hierarchy, there is a particularly high level of support among committee members for moving the national convention -- which has been held in late-August or earl...
Court Cases in Pennsylvania: Good vs Evil 1 Aug 2013 | 02:11 pm
Two interesting happenings in the courts of Pennsylvania this week. Both of them relate directly to Tom Corbett and show him to be the kind of person dedicated to personal gain and opposed to human ri...
Kansas City looking at 2016 GOP convention bid #RNC2016 31 Jul 2013 | 10:33 pm
Kansas City Mayor Sly James says he and several others are traveling to Boston in mid-August to make a case for bringing the 2016 Republican National Convention to the area. Several local governments...
Racism in America, Your Face is George Will 29 Jul 2013 | 04:32 pm
While serious people are discussing serious solutions to the Detroit bankruptcy, and other cities are looking at taking preventative measures to avoid the same fate, George Will is using the situation...
Sunday with the Senators: Why Nate Silver is Wrong 28 Jul 2013 | 04:35 pm
I've been trying to watch Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. I can watch about 15 minutes, and then I need to leave it to return later. I find it terribly distressing. I need to go outside and ...
