Interesting data from Michael Barone:

Psephologists—the fancy word for election analysts—like to talk about change and transformation. One party or the other, they say, is on the verge of forging an enduring national majority. One party or the other is doomed.

What I have come to see in my number crunching is not change and transformation, but continuity. Three presidents in a row have been re-elected with 49%, 51% and 51% of the vote. Over the past two decades, Democrats won four of six pre...

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Take a look at this image to which a friend drew my attention.

Then, read the brief post on the subject at the blog that posted the image. (LANGUAGE WARNING)

The subject of welfare fraud is important, but a subject raised by the comment thread cited at BloggerBlaster is, in the long run, even more important. It is a subject to which I shall be returning in depth, but for now, here it is in a nutshell:

The electorate is obsessed with compassion.

Over the last 100 years, people have become inured...

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