Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.
We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.
Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.
Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.
The FBI released its report on [Hillary] Clinton's emails. It exonerated her almost completely, but a few days later Matt Lauer obliviously spent a full third of his interview with Clinton on the emails anyway. Lauer was widely pilloried for this.
When Donald Trump disingenuously demands to know why [Hillary] Clinton never tried to close the loopholes he used, the answer is: She did. And if there had been any way to make it retroactive, she probably would have voted for that too.
Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.
My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the establishment win yet again and the revolution doesn't happen.
In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.
It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...
The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.
The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.
So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?
I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
