A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Larry Hunter in the New York Daily News: I’m a lifelong Republican – a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole’s presidential campaign team … Read more
I went to see the president He had a bruise on his shoulder where big business places its thumb His breath was powerful, and he reeked of compromise – Jeb Puryear (Donna the Buffalo) Let’s keep this image front and center between now and November: The body language seems creepy to me, and weirdly reminiscent … Read more
One of my favorite political blogs is Digby‘s. She pays attention to what’s going on and always write with clarity, depth, and compassion from pretty much the same spot on the political spectrum where I stand. Here’s an excerpt from a post she made this evening, which amplifies something I said extemporaneously on the air … Read more
What, only one? Amazingly stupid post by one Emily Freifeld, on a washpost political blog called Channel ’08: The 2008 Election on Video. The hundreds of comments provide an interesting cross-section of the blog-posting polity…
The results of the Indiana primary may have rendered it moot, but Hillary Clinton lost me for good when George Stephanopoulos asked her to name a single economist who thinks a “gas tax holiday” would work, and she replied: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.” This country is in terrible, terrible … Read more
Rich Simon’s report on yesterday’s press conference and show. I don’t know how “much sought-after” the Deadhead vote really is, but what the hey. I hope every Deadhead votes, regardless of who they vote for. Democracy works best when everybody participates.