Interesting. I scored New Coalition Democrat, not conventional liberal. Related: “Beyond Red vs. Blue” at PewResearchCenter
Democrats
Once Again, the Laffer Curve Curves
Michael Barone, whom I usually respect, confuses, like most Republicans, the issue about tax rates. Yes, when Kennedy cut the top rate from 90% to 70%, federal revenues did actually go up. And when Reagan cut the top rate to […]
2011 is not 1995
I confess that I was hoping that 2011 would be 1995. After all, we had just climbed out of a serious recession in the earlier part of that decade – dwarfed by the more recent one of course, but big […]
You’ve Seen Dan Morain’s Article…
You’ve seen Dan Morain’s article. For those of you who are interested, here’s the link to the actual answers I wrote! And you’ll get to find out what NTSEBREE and NESEBREE are. Related: “Howard Ahmanson, now a conservative Democrat, holds forth” by Dan Morain […]
Back to the Nineties
The current election results are making us remember 1994, when also, under a Democratic President, and with health care issues in the air, the Republicans won control of the U S House of Representatives. I’m concerned with social issues, and […]
Election Recommendations – November 2010
Partisan Office: I was rather disappointed in the Democrats, so I voted Republican on all partisan offices. Superintendent of Public Instruction: Larry Aceves. I checked the Internet and his opponent, Tom Torlakson, is the one endorsed by the Teachers Unions. […]
California Tea, Like California Housing, Evidently Pricey
According to Steven Greenhut, who I admire greatly, even though he is a philosophical Libertarian, one reason the Tea Party has not been so effective in California is that the state, being so large, requires candidates for statewide office to […]
Why The Religious Right Is Soft On Immigration: Plus, I Propose To Revive A New Deal-Era Institution
I read a recent New York Times article on the Mormon editor who is being lambasted by the conservatives for his views on immigration points up a little known fact – the strictly religious right is fairly soft on immigration. […]
American Christianity – Soon a Phenomenon of the Educated?
For years and years we have been fed with the story that orthodox Christianity and other conservative and demanding religions were primarily, though not exclusively, the domain of the less educated, and that the highly educated were inclined toward more […]
Living Like a Liberal
In this article Matt Labash explains how being liberal, or progressive, is becoming more than a political belief but a way of life – I would almost say a spirituality of sorts. The text, he says, is Justin Krebs” work […]