Yawper

Bumper stickers are one of the lowest forms of communication.  As a method of discourse bumper stickers probably rate somewhere above sandwich boards and blogs but below the level of tattoos and t-shirts.  For this reason they are well-suited to political opinions. So why slap a sticker on your car?  In general you should avoid […]

The polls show the contest between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama to be essentially tied, that is, the difference is within the margin of error.  Here are a few things worth noting. The polls are oversampling Democrats. In 2008 Democrats came out to vote in record numbers.  The historic turnout figures boosted Obama to the […]

The obnoxious temerity of Barack Obama has shown itself most clearly in four words uttered in Roanoke, Virginia.  “You didn’t build that,” has become more than a theme in the 2012 election, it is a line of demarcation that forces every person to declare on which side they stand. Can the American experiment in liberty, […]

With fewer than 100 days left before Election Day we are about to be bombarded with a veritable tsunami of campaign charges, claims, and appeals.   Given the unprecedented money to be spent on the presidential election alone, the existence of a deeply divided nation presided over the most divisive chief executive in the history of […]

The stupidity prevalent in political campaigns is indicative only of the low regard held for the average voter.  This weekend the Romney camp and team Obama traded accusations of who is more “out of touch.  As ridiculous as this is, they only did it because they think the voting public is remarkably impressionable. Barack Obama […]