If you haven’t visited the Monkey Cage recently, you should. There are excellent posts from Bryan Jones and Sarah Binder, among others on the debt ceiling and how… Read More
Rule 22ers are off enjoying today’s festivities and hopes you are doing the same. Here is some light reading from Gordon Wood on the full significance of the Fourth. Read More
We can add one more case to the list of government shutdowns. Politico has an interesting article about the implications that the government shutdown… Read More
Politico notes that the Ryan budget is quickly becoming a litmus test for Republicans. The trick, David Catanese argues, is catering to conservative primary voters while dodging the unpopular Ryan… Read More
Gridlock is a popular talking point recently. It is, of course, a response to Congress’s inaction on just about everything. While this is what is exactly what is expected during… Read More
Politico has a story today (here) that addresses the new crop of women in the Republican party. There are a couple points in the article that I… Read More
Just in case you hadn’t heard, John Kasich, the current Ohio governor, issued a resolution the other day making the Dallas Mavericks “honorary Ohioans.” My favorite part of the resolution: “Whereas, NBA Finals… Read More
AOL Weird News conducted an analysis of Sarah Palin’s emails using the Flesch-Kincaid score. The analysis revealed that Plain drafts emails at an eighth-grade level. (The actual scores, according to… Read More
Here are the mandatory Wiener-gate posts. On a side note, when is the media going to get more creative with scandal titles? Why must everything end in –gate? From… Read More
Here are two word clouds of Mitt Romney’s 2007 and 2011 presidential announcements (I used wordle.com). The returns were limited to the 20 most frequently used words with “common”… Read More
