My new favorite post-election reaction goes to Robert E. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy. He sent this prayer to America out to his workers, followed by his view of the nation's future: Dear Lord: The American people have made their choice. They have decided that...
Author: Erik Loomis
Barack Obama won Cuban-Americans in Florida, 49-47.
What a night. I'll have a full post about this later today, but the success of the marriage equality ballot measures in Maryland, Washington, and Maine and the rejection of.
Scott Rasmussen tries to explain why his polls were terrible. I'm reading this over and over again but I keep missing the sentence that reads "My polls suck because I'm a partisan hack who values creating a narrative that favors Republicans over accuracy."
Well, there's probably a lot of media low points. But at least twice, John King (URI grad as is, oddly, Christiane Amanpour) tried to delegitimize Obama's victory by switching from.
[SL]: I don't always watch Fox News. But when I do, it's after MSNBC has called the tipping point state. ...[SL] Karl Rove is complaining that the election was prematurely.
The great composer has passed at the age of 103. Here's a recording of his 1976 piece "A Symphony of Three Orchestras," performed by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic.
Scott has provided the fundamental case for Obama's reelection, no matter how disappointed with him you might be. I want to build on that a bit by summarizing a few.
I found these proposals to re-reengineer New York City pretty interesting. Essentially there are 3--create marshlands on the edge of Manhattan to serve as a buffer against rising sea levels.
What happens when voters want to cast in-person absentee ballots in Miami-Dade County? Close the polls for no reason and start towing the cars of people waiting in line. Republicans will do anything to win this election, including shenanigans both on Tuesday and after to...
At the intersection of our hyperactive 24-hour news cycle media culture and the long-term effects of environmental inequality lies what the post-colonial literary scholar Rob Nixon calls "slow violence." Nixon.
The idea of putting a statue of Christopher Hitchens in a British park is enough to make me choke on my shawarma. At least someone is standing up to what.