There are very few politicians I can legitimately support. The Libertarian Party party is known for putting political non-starters and intellectual duds on ballots, and principled Team Donkey or Team Elephant candidates are about as common as Sasquatch. But here’s a guy that I can put some weight behind. Gary Johnson (former governor of New […]

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Both “L” and “l” libertarians have been saying this for years: Having pushed back against the conventional wisdom on the Tea Party costing Republicans, I will say this: conservatives ought to seek out higher quality candidates as their standard-bearers. If Joe Miller comes up short in Alaska, he won’t have lost because he was too […]

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Bill Press of The Hill in his reaction to Tuesday’s elections: Even before Tuesday’s midterm elections, a lot of adjectives were used to describe American voters today: frustrated, disappointed, angry, betrayed. Looking at the results, I suggest there are two adjectives missing: fickle and dumb. And we even get a bonus “you ignoramuses are ungovernable”. […]

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WaPo on message sending voters: There is no blunter way for voters to send a message. For the third election in a row, Americans kicked a political party out of power. Now if only they could read their own handwriting and come to the logical conclusion that simply swapping parties every two years doesn’t fix […]

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The New York Times on the democratic response to last night’s smearing by republicans: The question that will dominate the conversation among Democrats in the days ahead is how it came to this, especially since Republicans offered little to voters beyond an emphatic rejection of the president’s policies. Some Democrats believe they fell victim to […]

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It’s refreshing to see an overtly conservative leaning publication come out in favor of California’s Proposition 19 which would make marijuana legal for recreational use. The American Spectator: I find the current consensus against legalized marijuana nearly as baffling. As Conrad Black argued the other day at National Review, it’s pretty clear that our current […]

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Oh, fuck. Clearly WaPo isn’t trying to push across its own political agenda here or anything. Since John G. Roberts Jr became chief justice five years ago, focus has been on the Supreme Court’s changing makeup and shifting ideology. In the coming months, the Washington Post will examine the real-world consequences of the court’s rulings […]

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The New York Times on voters flocking away from Obama’s sinking ship: Critical parts of the coalition that delivered President Obama to the White House in 2008 and gave Democrats control of Congress in 2006 are switching their allegiance to the Republicans in the final phase of the midterm Congressional elections, according to the latest […]

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One of the prominent and infinitely fucking annoying libertarded memes of the last few weeks is the idea that the elections are being hijacked by “outside groups” that are able to anonymously fund political speech because of a nefarious SCOTUS decision (Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (PDF)) which enables these groups to spend unlimited […]

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The New York Times concerning Obama’s begging of plea to Hispanic voters: In a radio interview that aired on Univision on Monday, Mr. Obama sought to assure Hispanics that he would push an immigration overhaul after the midterm elections, even though he has not been able to attract Republican support. This should certainly be thought […]

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