Month: October 2016

Flipped on the radio on the way home from work on Thursday to hear the Bundy brothers and the rest had been acquitted on all charges. This is after assorted other defendants had individually taken plea deals a few months ago, on...

Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) Camp Iŋyaŋ Wakháŋagapi Othí (Sacred Stone) Camp Mni wicon (Water is life) This is personal.  My wife and I met working on a liberal do-good project in 1976 in...

There are basically three ways that the presidential polls can be wrong. The first is that they have the wrong models for who is actually going to vote. So, for example, they may be underestimating Latino or black or Millennial...

As a longtime Bill Clinton adviser came under fire several years ago for alleged conflicts of interest involving a private consulting firm and the Clinton Foundation, he mounted an audacious defense: Bill Clinton’s doing...

Over at Huffington Post, their number crunchers now estimate that Donald Trump has a 23% chance of being an even bigger loser than George McGovern, i.e, getting less than 37.4% of the popular vote. Those aren’t great odds,...