If you look at the polls that appear regularly these days, it looks like a very close election. Obama or Romney tend to lead by a point of two in these polls. Even when the lead is greater it tends Continue reading
Want to understand contemporary American politics? It’s all summed up in a headline found on today’s Bloomberg website — “Donors Invest Millions in Romney for Billions in Returns.” Are these donors believers in the official Republican small government line? Please. Continue reading
So there I was, chasing this Romney rabbit, trying to figure out what it was, exactly, and what it really had in mind for my future. When it suddenly ducked down a rabbit hole. And when I approached that hole Continue reading
The pundits will give all sorts of reasons why Mitt Romney picked Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. They will say it’s an attempt to rev up the right wing of his party and pull in even more big Continue reading
Most Americans are not only open to the idea of income equality, they like the idea a lot. As a people, we think that those who are successful should be well rewarded financially, and these rewards should grow over time. Continue reading
You can own property, but you can’t own other people. Those who do own other people are slave owners. Those who are owned are slaves. Corporations are people, ‘persons’ or ‘natural persons’ as they are usually referred to in court. Continue reading
In a recent appearance, as part of a long campaign speech, President Obama said that if anyone became financially successful, someone else along the way helped him or her get there. It was a flagrant challenge to the Sinatra song-based Continue reading
I’d only planned to review the political TV ads offered up by Super-PACs, thinking they would be where the real fun stuff would appear. No reviewer worth his Bushmills, however, could possibly ignore ads currently coming from the parties’ own Continue reading
The big campaign flap these days concerns Mitt Romney’s relationship with Bain Capital after 1999. He was listed in official documents as the company’s CEO and sole owner for several years after 1999 until 2002, years in which some company Continue reading
One must be fair to Mitt Romney. Without doubt, he was the pick of the litter among those running in the Republican primaries. Stacked up against Michele the Swiss Miss, I’m-righter-than-thou Rick, Herman the pizza mogul motivator, and Newt the…(but Continue reading