Via The Weekly Standard, Sperling Admits Obama Misled in Debate: The President Did Propose the Sequester:

White House economic adviser Gene Sperling admits that, yes, in fact, the sequestration was President Obama’s plan.

“We put forth the design of” the sequestration, Sperling finally admits after a long back-and-forth.

When the White House is reduced to...

From a highly informative post, Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis at Red Mass Group:

This post is about technology, but is written for a non-technical audience.

You may think you know what happened with the technology of the Obama and Romney campaigns because of what you read about Orca. You don’t...

Because you still care (?).

Via @BarbaraLedeen, I recommend you read the full transcript (excerpts only below) and listen to Rush Limbaugh’s segment, Caller: Why Should I Still Care?

CALLER: I need some help here. I’ve tuned out since the election, absolutely tuned out…  I’ve tuned out. I own my own business. I’m just gonna...

I have written several times about the implicit marginal rate which makes it economically irrational for a  poor or lower-middle class wage earner to make more money because of the loss of government benefits the higher income incurs.

Back in November 2009, I saw the government benefits trap as a key political...

Meteorologists who examine their prognosticative skill often notice a curious phenomena. 

Forecasts for snow on December Twenty-fourths and Twenty-fifths have higher probabilities than forecasts for Twenty-sixths or Twenty-sevenths.  This disparity is inverted on the Fourth of July, where probabilities for rain are lower than for the Fifth.  Surely nature doesn’t have a...

A point made here before is that we may not fully understand the reasons why Mitt Romney lost.

I’ve proffered a few gut feelings, but have cautioned against adopting Democratic talking points on immigration and other issues — in other words, becoming Democrat-lite — based on narratives which may be wrong and...

I bet you didn’t realize that conservative media was to blame for Mitt Romney’s loss by about 3% of the total vote, much closer in swing states.

That’s the story line at Buzzfeed Politics, How The Conservative Media Lost The Election.  It is a story with barely a dissenting voice.  Buzzfeed fails to make any...

Obama Enjoys Surge in Positive Coverage the Last Week of the Race; Attention to Romney Drops:

In the final week of the 2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama enjoyed his most positive run of news coverage in months, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism....

As an amateur Egyptologist who occasionally writes about Egypt at the Temple of Mut, my specialty is mummies. So, I know dead things and can say with certainty: The Tea Party is NOT dead.

I have been a Tea Party activist since the first nationwide series of events were organized in February,...

I pointed out yesterday that there is no reason to believe that there is any more of a conservative echo chamber/bubble/cocoon than there is a liberal echo chamber/bubble/cocoon, Politico wants conservatives to stop reading alternatives to Politico.

Don’t think that false meme comes only from the left.  This post by Doug Mataconis at...

The wisdom of his age. Profoundly so.

Maligned by those who failed us so badly. Profoundly so.

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Introspection and reevaluation — and even a bit of circular firing squad — are necessary after an electoral loss.

But I’m not buying the end of conservatism argument immediately being peddled by pro-Obama media types.  It’s just a variation on Operation Demoralize.

There is a full blown attempt to cement in the popular consciousness...

Yesterday morning—the morning after—I posted this:

Barack Obama is the first two-term president in at least 100 years to get fewer votes in his reelection than he did the first time out. (FDR did less well in both his third...

Last night after news of Obama’s reelection was announced, I headed into downtown Chicago and came across groups of supporters celebrating. The video below was taken of a group that gathered outside the ABC studios. They spoke about how thrilled they were to see that government would be expanding.

One man said...

in Wisconsin, GOP retakes state Senate and full control of state government:

Republicans recaptured the state Senate on Tuesday, once again giving them the complete control of state government that they used to enact sweeping changes in the last legislative session.

Yet this, Tammy Baldwin tops Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin and this:

Theory.  Wisconsin voters...