It’s all in how you ask the question
One news item making the rounds today comes from a polling question. The ABC News/Washington Post poll asked Americans about a number of subjects, but the headline comes from a statement that 80% of...
View ArticleCrying poverty
I just had to laugh when I read this from our President. I think I should pick it apart a sentence or two at a time. When I’m out there talking to voters, we talk about what we’ve done, what we plan to...
View ArticleRemoving ‘Citizens United’?
I was actually looking for something else, but sometimes that’s how one stumbles across interesting tales from the other side of the political spectrum. So it is with a group, recently formed in...
View ArticleMy day at CPAC in pictures and text (part 2)
When I last left you at CPAC, I was ready to return upstairs to see Sarah Palin (and ran into Dan Bongino in the process.) But I wanted to digress beforehand and explain a little bit about my vantage...
View ArticleThe silence of dissent
This actually came to my attention a couple weeks ago, but I thought they may get more response if I wanted until closer to the deadline to post this. As background, the Maryland Citizen Action Network...
View ArticleWill Maryland join a Convention of States or an Article V Convention?
By Cathy Keim The push for an Article V Convention is growing nationwide, and it is coming from both sides of the political spectrum. The citizens are aware that they are not being heard and they are...
View ArticleObama: we need mandatory voting. The state of Oregon is on its way.
I ran across part of this story in the Washington Times today, a piece where Barack Obama suggested that America adopt mandatory voting like Australia and a handful of other counties have adopted. In a...
View ArticleTwelve years is enough
It’s not the most glamorous pair of positions, but every four years the Maryland Republican Party elects two of its three representatives to the Republican National Committee. The positions of National...
View ArticleThe battle now turns on fundraising
(Update: I was surprised to find Bossie read this piece and sent along pages of additional Presidential Coalition donations since 2006, to the tune of almost $140,000.) Do you think Louis Pope is...
View Article2017 Wicomico County Lincoln Day Dinner in pictures and text
This time around it will be fewer pictures and more text. It’s not like I haven’t done this for many years at the same venue. But you may recall I took a hiatus from party politics for awhile, meaning...
View ArticleDebunking another myth
It’s the fourth of what promises to be a continuing series of diatribes to my snail mail box, but instead of extolling the (so-called) virtues of my incumbent State Senator Jim Mathias, it makes a...
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