In February 2010 I wrote in the Huffington Post, "We Have A Crisis, Mr. Vice-President."
I wrote of the damage being done to American representative democracy by the use of the filibuster in the Senate. It's worse now then it was three years ago. It's worse now...

Ninety-three golfers played in the 2013 Masters. Each one played 18 holes stretched over an area of 350 acres at the Augusta National Golf Club. It took about five hours for each player to complete his round, which consisted of between 66 and 85 strokes. A total of 61 players...

Today, many Democrats and self-proclaimed progressives seem outraged by talk of the Republican Party planning to change the method used to allocate Electoral College votes in some states. Take Michigan, for example. The Democratic candidate has beaten the Republican candidate in Michigan's statewide popular vote in six consecutive elections --...

Why are so many people trying to "save the Republican Party" from its apparently suicidal slide into irrelevance? Most of the pundits, and those posing as such on TV and in the mainstream press, show little if any affinity for Republican policies or support for Republican candidates. So, why then...

Chuck Hagel is the name most often mentioned to be Secretary of Defense in the second Obama administration. While Obama is a Democrat, Hagel is a Republican. Chuck Hagel served in Vietnam, like John Kerry did, in the midst of the actual fighting. He returned from that war to serve...

The Sluggers of Steroids are eligible for Baseball's Hall of Fame this year. You know them -- Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens. Yes, there are others too, some whose drug use we know about, some we may not. Forgetting their actions, honorable or otherwise, once they left active...

Americans suffer under a fundamental misconception about their presidential elections. Put simply, we have no such thing as a "national election." What we have is 51 separate and distinct state and district elections, in which we award the winner various numbers of votes in the Electoral College. The candidate who...

The Obamaphiles are apoplectic. Perhaps they don't quite smell it yet, but on the back of their tongues they taste defeat. They're bewildered. How could "the people we've been waiting for," turn out to be the people we want to be rid of so soon? Obama's losing and his followers...

Quick, what do Richard Nixon and Walter Mondale have in common? The answer is: they are the last VP nominees to carry their home states for their party after their party lost those states in the previous presidential election. How long ago was that? In the case of Nixon it...

Maybe Gov. Romney -- who has expressed his willingness to have the United States "respect" an act of war by Israel against Iran -- needs an American History lesson. We all know what "respect" means coming from Romney's lips. If you were an Iranian what would you think?...

Here's the obvious: if Barack Obama wins every state in 2012 where he won in 2008, he will have 358 electoral votes and he will be reelected. If Obama 2012 loses states Obama 2008 won with as many as 88 electoral votes -- he still gets reelected. The GOP in...

The next president will not be elected on November 6, 2012. The nationwide popular vote on that day means nothing. Doubters are referred to never-were Presidents Al Gore and Samuel J. Tilden, plus the elections of 1824 and 1888. Four times in our democratic history the popular vote winner did...

The great fuss over Citizens United and the predicted awful consequences to our politics that the pundits immediately declared after this court ruling is a red herring, an unnecessary worry, certainly not the fault of the court and easily prevented by the very media who are supposed to serve as...

Presidential nominating conventions are television shows first and political events second. Before the TV era, the Republicans once took as many 36 ballots to nominate James A. Garfield in 1880. Nobody watched. Nobody listened. Nobody cared how long. The GOP endured 10 ballots in 1920; six in 1940; and three...

If we don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows, what do we need to know who and what Barack Obama is?

How can it be that nasty Ann Coulter -- the Chancellor of the University of Made-Up Shit - how does she know what so...

Somebody has to say it.

The Republican Party has lost touch with reality. They offer an irrational alternative to President Obama.

Who's responsible for this staggering development in our political history? The elephant's share of the blame goes to those perfectly reasonable, completely rational Republicans who have chosen to step...

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann won what's been called everything from a "solid" to a "resounding" victory in the Ames Iowa Republican Straw Poll. Strange, isn't it, that supposedly credible news analysts on supposedly credible TV networks all said so -- all spoke glowingly about Ms. Bachmann's "important win" -- when Rep....

The debt ceiling debate is more political than financial. Not the actual crisis -- just the silly back and forth that passes for a debate on the issue. It shows all of us, and The Rest Of The World, the staggering level of ignorance running rampant among those who are...

The only meaningful difference in Congress between modern times and long ago is that now we have only a single political party in America. Face it, we have a one-party system with two right wings.

Our population has doubled and doubled again, based on 1913 statistics, over the last 100...

With their most resolute faces firmly in place, being sure not to pull "a Bachmann" and instead looking straight into the lens of the camera, an all-star cast of American public officials and highly respected political leaders have engaged in what can only be seen as either high hypocrisy or...