This theoretical victory stuff is always a fun game , Joe. Actually, if you want to do it up right, you could get a majority—the twenty-six smallest states, fifty-two senators—with just 11,010,526 voters, or 3.62 percent of the population. That’s based on the CIA Factbook ‘s . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently the Cargo Cult meme already hit the Web before my last post, via the American Thinker, picked up by the Daily Kos as well.In fact, I first used the term in January 2008 after Obama’s surprise victory in the South Carolina primary:If Reagan offered “voodoo economics”, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of not knowing how squished they are:Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference chose Ron Paul (R.-Texas) as their favorite candidate in the CPAC straw poll. That’s not a vote: it’s a tantrum. Ron Paul is an idiot, on a good day. The vote bespeaks . . . . Continue Reading »
Like the New Guinea primitives who built straw airfields after the departure of American forces to bring “cargo” down from the heavens, Americans wait for the business cycle to turn. They will wait a long time. The Obama administration is administrating the economic equivalent of . . . . Continue Reading »
A sermon by my colleague, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mayes, on this day of St. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr.Unremarkable MatthiasIn the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dearly Beloved:Matthias is unremarkable. We have his feast on our Evangelical-Lutheran church year calendar simply . . . . Continue Reading »
Today comes news that 20 percent of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, according to a Gallup Poll that queried ten times the number of households involved in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Household Survey. According to BLS numbers, 16 percent of Americans are unemployed or . . . . Continue Reading »
In your post , Jody, you mention that, “You could elect 86 senators with a minority of the population, as the bottom 43 states have fewer people, in total, than the top seven states.” If the always-reliable Wikipedia is to be believed, it has always been possible to elect a majority of . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of Jody’s post earlier today: On Feb. 12, I posted this item at my “Inner Workings” blog at Asia Times and on the Spengler blog at First Things : Although Greece is an EC member, its finances and political system have the character of a banana republic. EC membership, . . . . Continue Reading »
And so it starts. Among those in First Things ’ offices, our senior editor David Goldman goes on The Kudlow Report to do the heavy lifting on economics, and things like guessing which way the Euro is going to break are way beyond my remit. Still, there are no good solutions to the Greek . . . . Continue Reading »
While reading an interesting analysis of the (poor) chances of health-care reform from Jay Cost this morning, I came across this note: While I don’t think right versus wrong properly enter into considerations of reconciliation, I have noticed one particularly ridiculous moral argument in . . . . Continue Reading »
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