I’ve noticed an extremely annoying trend in politics recently – I’m looking at you tea-partiers – where populist morons have no idea what they are talking about.  You’ll pardon the harsh language, but I think it’s about time that both sides stop pointing fingers in the...

Sarah Palin is a moron. So how comes the Sarah Palin juggernaut?  Is she still a force in the 2012 election? I haven’t touched on the Republican candidates for a while now, because I think most of them realize that it is unwise to overexpose themselves this early.  Most of the major potential...

Usually, the Supreme Court hears 100 cases a year.  Of those, we might hear in the news about one or two of them.  One of the cases this year was Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.  It sounds boring in principle:  A non-profit organization tried to release a documentary against Hillary...

In a couple of my past articles, I’ve talked about the specter of terrorism floating above Obama’s head at all times, and how any attack could potentially derail his re-election campaign.  Ultimately, the possibility of another attack on the U.S. is downright likely, and falls to chance.  In a...

Gay rights are a tough issue to gauge in terms of their impact on a Presidential election, partly because the issue doesn’t necessarily come down to the President in most cases.  Gay rights were a stated part of Obama’s political agenda during the 2008 campaign, and his administration has said...

One of the major contentious issues of 2012 is going to be Climate, for a couple of reasons. First of all, the United States is becoming more and more skeptical about the climate change crisis.  It’s seen as a sort of red herring in politics for many people, who revert back to the arguments that the...

Despite the massive problems facing the United States, problems that Barack Obama is expected to fix, the Republicans have a serious uphill battle against them in 2012.  I’d much rather it was close, folks, because it’s more fun to call a close race, but hey, not up to me.  Point being that the...

Obama has gotten back to his populist roots in what appears to be a mixture of both cutting unemployment and canceling out some of the backlash to the Wall Street bailouts last fall and earlier this year. At a speech at the Brookings Institute, Obama said he wanted to use money left over (some $200 billion)...

There is a pretty good chance that Ralph Nader will run for President in 2012.  The thing to remember about third party candidates who run for President is that they rarely harbor any illusions about the possibility of actually winning the Presidency.  What they are trying to do is bring certain issues to...

Obama’s made the big decision that may define his presidency:  he’s stepped up the war in Afghanistan.  Whether or not this is a good idea is yet to be seen – and it probably won’t be seen any time soon.  Obama says he’s putting a 3 year deadline on the Afghanistan war, but...