As 2007 drew to a close, I was making unverifiable assertions to friends and associates not to discount Mike Huckabee as a dark horse among the Republican presidential nominees. As 2008 opened, I declared on air (free bumper sticker to the careful listener who can help me figure out which podcast it’s in) that John […]

Democratic turnout in Tennessee favored Democrats, which is more noteworthy than some other states where this has been the case considering that we don’t have party registration.
The media has been desperately trying to turn the Republican race into a two-man race before it legitimately was one. I was (too privately, alas) an early predictor (before […]

After realizing that the biggest fraud of an entitlement program–marrying her way to the presidency–was in jeopardy, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated just how poisonous Clintonism will be if we allow it to return for a sequel. She has finally distilled the Democratic primary contest to the basest type of identity politics.
Until immediately after Iowa, Barack […]

Summary: It’s time for Elbert Ventura of Media Matters to de-spinify (It’s a word. Look it up.) what we hear on the radio and the TV. Despite what we may have heard from Chris Matthews, John McCain did not win the Iowa Caucus. Plus, Phil Valentine wants to find out just how low he can […]