James Edmund Pennington

James Edmund Pennington


  • October 28, 2008

    Time for a Gut Check, America

    McCain and his supporters have only a single battle cry for the last week, but it could be powerful: America, do you want to give unchecked, unlimited, near total power to the left wing of the Democratic Party?

  • October 17, 2008

    The Next 18 Days

    The last debate is over, and the race is in its final stretch. And in all probability McCain's debate performance changed little. At least not for the better.

  • October 14, 2008

    What McCain Must Do

    Here is what he must focus on for the rest of the election if he wishes to have any chance of victory:

  • October 2, 2008

    Is it slipping away?

    The electoral default mode in the current circumstances is a McCain defeat. McCain must wrench the game from its present course

  • September 24, 2008

    Obama's choice of Biden an albatross (updated)

    It would be electoral malpractice for the McCain campaign and its supporters to let Joe Biden's remarkable demonstration of cluelessness go unremarked.

  • September 9, 2008

    Media's Treatment of Palin and Obama

    If Barack Obama's past had been subjected to one tenth the media scrutiny during the full year of his candidacy, to which Sarah Palin has been subjected during the last two weeks, Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee.

  • June 11, 2008

    Obama and his Next Goal

    Democrat elders and activists, having engineered, or submitted to, their choice of Obama, can now begin attending to the risk they have created.

  • May 12, 2008

    Obama's Darn Likablity

    Lurking just beneath all that defiant bravado about Obama's unacceptably left wing voting record is the unexpressed Republican fear that the charming Illinois Senator just might be that easy-to-live-with guy America wouldn't mind coming home to.

  • April 2, 2008

    The Democrats' cul-de-sac

    The current agony of the Democratic Party, which grows more acute every day, is laden with an unspoken truth.

  • March 21, 2008

    Obama's Problem with White Voters

    The racial dimension of Barack Obama's electability problem is now apparent, but no prominent Democrat dares discuss it openly. Similarly expect no discussion of the subject in the major media.