Ross Perot

Wayne's World, Party Time, Excellent

A little while ago I chatted with erstwhile Libertarian vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root today, to get a grapple on where the LP is going after 2008. Root didn't figure much into Brian Doherty's excellent rundown of...

Mark Cuban Calls Foul After SEC Charges

Billionaire Entrepreneur, Controversial Basketball Team Boss Squares Off Against Feds Mark Cuban likes the spotlight. The tech mogul and reality TV star has danced with the stars and upended the movie business. In this file...

Iraq War Supporters Have Bad Judgment Until They Work for Obama

As I write, this report hasn't been confirmed yet but if Hillary Clinton is going to be Barack Obama's secretary of state, doesn't that discredit a major argument in favor of the change agent's presidential candidacy? During...

Ralph Nader

Fun Facts: ←Older revision Revision as of 23:17, 17 November 2008 Line 2: Line 2: {{election2008}} {{election2008}} - Can you believe it!? Ralph is running for President! OMGWTFBBQM8!!! Whoudda tahunk it? + Can you believe it!?...

Brenda Walker at Vdare on Bush victim Tina Davila

Tina Davila is a victim of George W. Bush as much as anyone else who might be called that and more so than many. Do you think Americans who died in Iraq are Bush victims? Tina Davila was a Bush victim because one of Bush’s...

Cigars In Hip-Hop Culture

The association between smoking and creativity is an old one, almost stereotypical. In the nineteenth century the painter Edouard Manet, for example, used the upward drift of cigar smoke in his famous portrait of the celebrated...

Obama's Triumph, the GOP's Calamity (Good Analysis!)

An ocean of ink, India and printer’s and virtual, has been spilled in celebration of a black man’s ascension to the presidency of the United States. We have read, and read again, about the historic nature of Barack Obama’s...

Just Say No to Detroit

Given the abysmal performance by Detroit's Big Three, it would be better to send each employee a check than to waste it on a bailout, says David Yermack Before Michael Moore became famous for documentaries like "Fahrenheit...

Former H&R Block exec buys Bar Diamond Ranch

Moving off the ranch where he'd lived for just less than 40 years, Larry Carpenter made numerous trips over a six-week period, hauling out tools, equipment and other belongings. The last thing he picked up was a tractor, which...

B-Sides: For Terre Haute, nothing is impossible in 2008

In a legal sense, Cousin Eddie just showed up to spend the holidays with Hauteans. Surprised by Thursday’s Indiana Appeals Court ruling that — if it stands — would nullify the 2007 Terre Haute mayoral election? Well, as Clark...

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