Notes from the Ironbound

The inauguration is coming tomorrow, after perhaps the most eventful and contentious lame-duck session of Congress in our time.  We seem to ...

Back in 2009, conservatives made their political goals pretty obvious: do anything in their power to make the Obama administration fail and ...

There are a lot post-mortems our there concerning the 2012 election, some smart, and some rather shallow and chained to the usual convention...

When I cast my vote for president on Tuesday, my vote will be, once again, for Barack Obama.  Having lived in Illinois back in 2004 during h...

There's a fun little game on the BBC's website where you can predict which swing states will go where in the election, and what the ...

Some news sources have been discussing the narrowing of the "gender gap" in presidential polling this year, which is awfully sur...

Predictably, discussion of Tuesday's presidential debate has hinged around the boxing scorecard (Obama by TKO, in my opinion) and the us...

The past month has been one of the craziest periods in an election that I can remember.  It started with Mitt Romney looking sunk, only to b...

I have been spending a surprising amount of time watching the Democratic National Convention over the last couple of days, and during Bill C...

The recent Todd "legitimate rape" Akin debacle is just another episode in the continuing saga of the Tea Party getting its candida...

Since Paul Ryan has entered the race as Mitt Romney's running mate, I've had to hear two long-standing tropes that just annoy the he...

Introduction: Mitt Romney is currently traveling abroad, and has so far managed to offend his British hosts with his comments on the Lond...

I've always hated the term "identity politics," since it's usually employed by conservatives to deride the efforts of a...

There's a pretty good online quiz at a site called "I Side With" that determines how much one's political beliefs match t...

In one of my favorite posts on my old blog, I once accused the Democratic Party of consistently bringing a knife to a gun fight.  Their per...

I tend not to like reality television, mostly because it's exploitative, stupid, and full of moronic fame whores.  That said, I finally ...