I am certainly against the “marriage” amendment to the Constitution, and I have some serious qualms with the anti-abortion amendments that get proposed. But the constitution does need to be amended. I believe that the second amendment ought to be rescinded, and that the gray area between presidential and congressional war powers ought [...]

To quote from this article:
“The House approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies Wednesday as Democrats cited record oil prices and rising gasoline costs in a time of economic troubles”
So… oil prices are going up, and the way to deal with that is to tax companies, who will pass on the [...]

I’ve been pretty critical of some of the things the Clinton campaign have said about media bias. Now, I still maintain that for the campaign themselves to complain about bias is politically unwise, but last night’s debate generally proved me wrong. NBC’s moderation of the debate was awful, and virtually every one of [...]

Why is it that Ralph Nader has gotten as much media attention in his one day of running for office than Ron Paul has gotten in the entire race?  Ron Paul has consistently been polling at 6-10% and in some states has pulled in over 15% of the GOP vote.  He has raised a ton [...]

In today’s New York Times, Geraldine Ferraro writes an op-ed in defense of Super Delegates. She was on the DNC commission that created them in the first place, so she has an interesting perspective on the issue. I’ve written disparaging, but largely off-handed remarks, on the topic before, and so I feel that [...]

A few days ago I accused the Clinton (and to some extent the Obama) campaign of operating on vague platitudes. Mike suggested in commentary that there were plenty of details and that nobody would read or understand a more detailed policy report, so that my characterizations were somewhat misleading. Perhaps. But as [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time. But I keep putting it off, partly because its a very challenging issue for me as a libertarian who’s also a scientist. Here is the problem: Science is expensive. But its also important. So, who pays for it? [...]

Clinton claimed two things about Obama in the most recent debate.

1) He works in vague platitudes, and doesn’t deal in issues
2) His health care plan will cover 15 million fewer people than hers.
I was curious about this, so I went to her website, downloaded her healthcare plan, and read it carefully.  And here’s what I [...]

As our frequent commenter Silence noted the other day, the Obama-Clinton race shares a lot in common with the most recent Massachusetts gubernatorial election in which we elected Deval Patrick. This shouldn’t be especially surprising, especially considering that Obama and Patrick are long-time friends with similar backgrounds. In fact, it was Deval [...]

Obama and Clinton are in campaigning in Ohio this week, and their stump speeches seem designed mostly around the topic of the economy, and free trade in particular.  The free trade bogeyman has apparently caused all the problems in the Ohio economy… didn’t you know?  Its all NAFTA’s fault that Ohioans are out of jobs, [...]