Independent’s Eye by Joe GandelmanJuan Williams says Sarah Palin is no intellectual match for Barack Obama. She’s no intellectual match for a match.That was a line I could not resist tweeting. Someone on Twitter got annoyed at my little joke: “So cheap and weak.” But I was actually emulating Palin’s style.Palin’s rhetoric is often cheap: she has a habit of [Read More]

Ah, New Year’s Eve. What a great night to revisit the past year.Though I’d rather revisit 1999.The unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in 1999.Dot-com stocks were still creating lots of paper millionaires.The U.S. deficit for that year was $1 billion — that’s right, “billion” with a “b,” a far cry from the $1 trillion to $2 trillion it is nowadays.Things [Read More]

Raging Moderate by Will DurstWishing you all a Very Happy Merry. And no, I’m not falling into that trap. You go out and dance to the beat of whichever winter festival you want to celebrate. Christmas. Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Solstice, noon Tuesday, 420, a December date equal to the square root of the number 625. Whatever. And good on ya. [Read More]