From Pajamas Media TV:
"Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign - utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present "O", holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the ...
Wendy McElroy presents some food for thought on principled non-voting in a recent speech. I think her ideas are worth considering, but Bill Bradford's rebuttal (not to this speech, but to an article of McElroy's) is also worth reading for an opposing perspective. Here are some excerpts:
But what if the ...
Last week my thoughts on third parties and mandatory voting were published in the Boulder Daily Camera:
No one likes to hold their nose and vote for a candidate they perceive as the "lesser of two evils." But voting for your favorite minor-party candidate can help elect the "greater of two ...
From Reason magazine
Harvard’s Sendhil Mullainathan and Yale’s Ebonya Washington, in a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, examined surveys conducted from 1976 to 1996 that asked young adults about their attitudes toward a candidate two years after the candidate’s election. They discovered that those who were eligible to ...
This voting thing is getting out of hand. It's becoming a four-letter word to me. On NPR this morning I heard that a woman flew from Eastern Europe to Michigan to vote, as she had not received her absentee ballot. She could have donated the cost of ...
Word of the week: zeugma \ZOOG-muh\ noun. Date: 1523: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one (as in "opened the door and her ...
