here was a book about the 1968 presidential campaign, “The Selling of the President”. There should be a new one written about the 2008 and especially the 2012 campaigns. Marketing, backed by an intensive research effort which focused on what might be called “the long tail” of the voting age population was put into practice by a huge collection of data about individual voters and data mining it for one

Washington Examiner: New Obamacare regulations targeting the fast food and grocery store market that require signs detailing calorie and nutritional information on every product will force pizza makers like Domino’s to post up to 34 million different signs in every store: One for every possible pizza order. “It’s not like a Big Mac. Pizza is customizable, there are options to factor in,” said Jenny Fouracre-Petko, legislative director for Domino’s and

Save the Mom and Pop liquor stores!  We demand free-range Ouzo!  Registers devoted exclusively to Lotto tickets DEMAND TO BE FREE! Resist the big corporate chains who offer liquor for sale only, because they only serve to put small liquor-peddling joints out of business!  As well as offer convenience to consumers and lower prices because of a certain economy of scale — making it more and more difficult in the

As Boehner and the boys get ready to fold — surrendering to the President and the Democrats while refusing to represent their own constituencies — it is notable that this GOP establishment strategy comes with a hushed secondary effort, namely to remove fiscal conservatives from positions of power within Boehner’s House structure. Because it’s the ruling class vs the rest of us, and conservative / TEA Party interlopers muddy up

Here, let me just get this out of the way by stating it as explicitly as I can: Jason Whitlock is a racist. And were he not a black man and a liberal, everyone in the media would today be howling for his head. Instead, we’ll be told that Whitlock is opening up an important avenue to dialogue on race and guns — the phony “considered” response that the left

First, here’s the video if you haven’t yet seen it: Now, here’s what Costas’ spokesman had to say about the criticism Costas received for his bleating douchery, Costas himself apparently being too busy washing the gray out of his hair to comment directly. USA Today: NBC’s Bob Costas, communicating through a spokesman Monday about on-air comments about guns he made Sunday night, “feels an unfortunate leap was taken that he

The defense rests. And certain Florida prosecutors and cowardly politicians should resign in shame.  But they won’t, of course.  Because we live in Scapegoat America.  And Scapegoat America has a homestyle recipe:  Pick your villain, freeze him, and then attack, using relentless negative press, race-baiting, and the outraged cries of “civil rights” leaders. yield:  social status and preening moral superiority, that is, until such time as the tissue of lies

Paul Rahe on Romney’s failures and the changing electorate. It’s a long article and well worth the read, but let me highlight a few points.  First, as Rahe writes: Lest I bore you and fail to provoke sound and fury, let me preface my remarks by saying two things: that libertarians should be social conservatives and vice-versa. This was and is an argument I have been making here, sometimes explicitly,

In from the Cold: The conflict in Syria appears poised to take an ominous–and even more deadly–turn. In recent days, there have been several developments, suggesting that the on-going civil way may soon cross one of the feared “red lines,” dragging Syria’s neighbors (and perhaps NATO) into the conflict as well. First, there were multiple reports last week that the Assad government had shut down internet access across the country