It is a pedestrian observation that terrorists are human beings and therefore have a human psychology which we can study and understand. Strangely, that simple observation seems almost heretical, possibly even subversive in our currently political climate. It seems to imply that terrorists are not aberrant monsters, or possibly even that they are normal in … Read more
Seems like every medium eventually falls prey to the siren song of profit. And profitability invariably means one thing: advertising. Wherever there are eyeballs, there is someone willing to pay for access to them. Blogs are turning out to be no different. The Google Adsense advertising I have on this site (yes, go click on … Read more
Link: ThinkRight Arizona: Sandy Froman to Co-Chair Bee Exploratory Committee. So, Tim Bee has selected Sandy Froman, UA law professor and former President of the NRA, to co-chair his stealth campaign committee. She joins Jim Click in that role. This means that all the traditional Republican interest groups are now represented in Bee’s campaign leadership: … Read more
Why am I getting a mailer that I completely agree with from the Goldwater Institute? It’s not that I never agree with conservatives (it happens on those rare occasions when they actually talk like conservatives), it’s that I wish liberals were better at choosing to advocate issues that could have significant appeal to independent voters. … Read more
Lori Oien has just taken her campaign from hopelessly out-matched to pitifully incompetent. Her attack on Rodney Glassman as a ‘enviro hypocrite‘ according to the Star’s Sunday edition, will not only fail to convert a single voter concerned with the environment, but it has very likely gifted about 5 points worth of Oien’s own base … Read more