Russ McBee

Back in late February or early March, it was increasingly clear that McCain and Obama would be their parties' nominees. At that time, I firmly believed Obama could not beat McCain; I felt that he could have beaten any other Republican, but that McCain's appeal to the center would be impossible for Obama to overcome. I believed this so strongly, ...

I've never linked to RedState before, since it's just such an enormous waste of electrons and brain cells, but every once in a while, a post comes along that is so blazingly and hilariously self-delusional that it cannot be allowed to pass without remark. Some goofball named Dan Perrin has posted seven reasons why he thinks McCain will ...

Obama gave his ''closing argument'' speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff: Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible. Here's the closing argument against four more years of the most destructive president in US ...

Today, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty on multiple counts of corruption. In the aftermath, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had the audacity to say this (presumably with a straight face): ''The verdict shines a light on the corrupting influence of the big oil-service company that was allowed to control too much of our state. ...

Regarding the 2008 Republican platform, Chris Kelly said this: See, the problem here, for most Republican politicians, is that the platform is horrifying. A catalogue of revenge dreams and power fantasies, impossible and illegal, most of them involving women and scourging. It's the portrait in the attic of what Republican rule would look like, ...

Via WhitesCreek at KnoxViews, this is one of the better political ads I've seen this election cycle: Just say ''no.''

To no one's surprise, Sarah Palin abused her power as governor of Alaska: An Alaska ethics inquiry found on Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin, the U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate, abused her authority by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family. After enduring eight years of the Bush mafia's ...

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) is finishing his final term in Congress, after losing his primary earlier this year. He's become disillusioned with his own party, and he has some less-than-charitable things to say about the GOP: We're in this bad place as a country because of the evangelicals, the neocons, the nasty, bitter and mean ... very clever ...

A group called Science Debate 2008 sent a list of questions about science and technology policy to Barack Obama and John McCain, covering such topics as science education, stem cell research, the politicization of science, space exploration, and numerous other topics. Both candidates responded to the list of fourteen questions; their answers are ...

Legend has it (according to Seutonius) that the Roman emperor Caligula ordained his horse Incitatus as a priest, and threatened to install that same horse as one of Rome's two consuls (who acted more or less as vice-emperors). Caligula was by all accounts completely insane, but his political promotions of Incitatus served to send a deliberate ...