I haven’t been posting this afternoon because I’ve been preoccupied with other things, but also because of a general frustration with how America responds to gun tragedies. Really the lowest form of our political discourse comes out on these days. It seems as if somebody is just inventing scenarios to increase the outrage over the [...]

So far in her brief general election campaign, Sharron Angle has had a coordinated strategy of walking back all of the most extreme of her positions and blocking any legitimate press requests unless they came from a friendly right-wing source. This broke down yesterday after a run-in with a local reporter that did not reflect [...]

Sharron Angle has been whisked from meeting to meeting in Washington this week, shielded from the press in an attempt to cut off any oxygen to a series of damaging reports about prior statements and her personal associations. We’ve come to a point in America where candidates for political office can be hermetically sealed off [...]