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(sorry, I was looking for a good voting picture and, well… )
This morning I cast my vote. The line started at the school, wrapped around the entire block and ended back at the school. I got some good reading in. I got to use an old fashioned lever based voting booth for the first time.
I [...]

In a recent dinner discussion with a friend, he articulated the hope in Obama the way most seem to: feeling that people will be relieved and the world will be more willing to like us. Susanna made an excellent point. In 2000 people were putting all their hopes in George Bush to change everything. And [...]

Thus was the title of a London Telegraph article responding to England’s version of the bail out. The Los Angeles Times in an apt article asks the question If Barack Obama is socialist, what is George W. Bush? Dare we also ask: If Barack Obama is socialist, what is John McCain?

On Sunday, Fox News’ Chris [...]

In Presidential elections we all know about the “Republican L” as illustrated below (2000 election results). Let’s look at some past, more interesting result maps.  
The “Democratic L”
How about the Republicans carrying New York and California? President McKinley stepped into office in 1896 with near inverse results from 2000.

Red states, green states, yellow states, [...]

Dave Ramsey made an excellent point on a recent broadcast. Facing political choice of bad and worse Ramsey said:
We’re going to be ok either way. Its not up to them, that’s the good news in the deal. Clinton didn’t change your life, Bush didn’t change your life, YOU change your life. So we are going [...]

From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/mccain.mortgages/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)
Under the [McCain] plan, the government would buy up bad mortgage loans, converting them into low-interest, FHA-insured loans. To qualify, homeowners would have to be delinquent in their payments or be likely to fall behind in the near future.
“The original plan relied on lenders taking the hit,” Holtz-Eakin said on the conference call. [...]

Mike Tanner of the Cato Institute discusses big government conservatives.

Quoting Bush:
“Government should help people improve their lives”
“We’ve had enough of the stale debate between big government and indifferent government. Government must be active enough to fund services for the poor.”
Bush’s chief of staff stated that Bush “sees America like a 10 year old child”
Tanner’s ending [...]

In my last post I discussed leaving the Republican party. How we can regain a viable conservative party? I would like to propose the following premise:
A majority of Americans are conservative and hungry for true conservative representation. Look at the Reagan revolution and support he received. Listen to the talk show and blogosphere chatter. Consider [...]