Sophia Oldsman   They’re assholes, really, New Hampshire primary voters. At Gilchrist Metal Fabricating’s grimy factory in Hudson the day before the primary, during what the Granite State for some reason calls a “town hall meeting,” Chris Christie tells an illustrative story. One of these indigenous Granite State prima donnas buttonholed him, he says, to […]

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  Photo Credit: Jack Tuesday, March 1, is election day in Texas. If you vote in the Democratic primary, your choice for the presidential nomination is not just between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. There are six other candidates on the Democratic ballot, three of whom are Texans: Calvis L. Hawes, of Hawkins; Star Locke, of […]

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Photo Credit: Michael Vadon The 2016 presidential primary has featured a whole host of new lows. From a neo-fascist, crony-capitalist Republican front-runner, to the repeated attempts at red-baiting on the Democratic side against a Democratic socialist, no less, we’re on track for a Super Tuesday race to the bottom. A little over a week before 12 […]

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Photo Credit: Brian Turner Senate confirmation of judicial appointees always slows down in the final year of a president’s term when the Senate is not controlled by the president’s party. Under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the confirmation process began to shut down almost two years before Barack Obama’s last […]

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  “Not a dime’s worth of difference,” was how Alabama Governor George Wallace described the Democratic and Republican Parties of the late 1960s, when he led the short-lived American Party. The same can be said of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump as they compete for the voters Richard Nixon saw as key to a Southern Strategy […]

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