Month: July 2015

Ed kind of summoned me to talk about the Grateful Dead, and particularly about the strange finding that independent-leaning Republicans are their most intense fans. I don’t agree with William Leitch that this is best...

Anytime that I write about Gallup polls, I have to add the proviso that I think that Gallup polls are just plain lousy. I am particularly skeptical of any polling they do of the sort that can never be verified by, say,...

I got curious and decided to take a look at how Mitt Romney did outside of the Confederacy in the 2012 presidential election. The Confederate States of America were Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,...

Sometimes, the mind is boggled: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed Obama’s decision to reopen the U.S. embassy in Cuba, suggesting that it was a “slap in the face” to Israel. I hear that non sequitur is a Latin...

Let me ask you a simple question. What do you think really explains the recent impulse to look back at President Nixon’s domestic policy with fondness and to thereby soften history’s condemnation of that snake?