No More Calls Please — We Have A Winner

After a great deal of discussion and speculation, we finally have the answer: Barack Obama is the New Nixon. The clincher?  I’ll let Anthony Holden tell you in his own words from today’s Daily Beast: Among the countless blessings conferred by the election...

Newsprint’s Last Hurrah?

It’s hardly news that print media has been in steady decline ever since the moment that the ball came down in Times Square on December 31, 1999, and the world realized that these newfangled computers were not going to all crash and were here to stay. This...

Bill Ayers Speaks

It was widely noted in the media yesterday morning that former Weather Underground leader and current professor of education Bill Ayers voted at the same grade school where Sen. Barack Obama (and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan) cast their ballots. But lost in...

Obama Statistics

Barack Obama is the first non-Southern Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote since 1944.  (In 1960, JFK got less than 50 percent in his race against the Old Man.) In fact, he is only the second non-Southern Democrat since 1828 to get more than 51 percent. ...

Views of a Progressive Republican

Read my colleague Robert Nedelkoff’s thoughtful views on the election and its possible aftermath. I would like to offer a respectful counter-point with some views of my own. You know, I want to vote Republican. After all, I have been a registered Republican since my...