Articles & Blog Posts by Rosslyn Smith
- Obamacare may be the GOP’s ace in the hole
- Coffee, Cigarettes, and the Fog of War: Air Force One on 9/11
- Down ballot may be OK
- Justice for George Zimmerman in Florida’s Tuesday voting
- A long night for the newlywed Graysons
- Trump’s strategy on race issues
- Will His Lawsuit against an Iron Chef Give Trump Indigestion?
- State Fair Food Follows Fashion
- Speculation over Trump campaign strife abounds
- The real Trump tweets
- A long line of losers in the White House
- Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier
- Election threat assessment
- Media seize on man behind Trump at Florida rally
- Ryan vanquishes Nehlen
- The Battle of North Carolina
- Where Trump needs to focus
- Check out the internals on the latest Trump/Clinton poll from McClatchy
- All in the (Trump) Family?
- A major anti-Hillary donor vents
- Campaign double talk?
- Children of Monsters
- Why Trump Has No Investments in Russia
- A 52 Pickup of Victim Cards
- Not your usual convention
- Job title: Official Scapegoat?
- Did Melania go rogue?
- Was Melania intentionally rickrolled?
- BLM just met a police department that serves the university elite
- Still no respect for LBJ
- Hillary’s ad blitz and the defining of Trump
- Trump and the GOP Party Activists: Report from North Carolina
- The Trump campaign and the Trump Organization
- Bumpy GOP Convention Ride Ahead?
- Voter Photo ID: North Carolina Proves it works Very Well, Indeed
- Afghanistan fallout three decades later
- Afghanistan fallout three decades later
- Daniel Gilroy, the co-worker who warned of Omar Mateen’s deranged hatred, earlier was a victim of political correctness
- How Trump plans an event
- Trump and the down-ballot
- Who will be using opposite sex bathrooms under cover of being ‘transgender’?
- Alan Grayson’s unusual wedding present to his bride
- The real minimum wage is zero
- Judicial-driven election chaos in North Carolina
- Choosing GOP convention delegates in North Carolina
- 2016, the year of idealism, nihilism and obliviousness
- The world belongs to those who show up
- There is no New York presidential primary
- Trump’s wives and the women voters
- Spot the true crime
- Trump and Clinton: Mutual Assured Destruction?
- Polled twice in 24 hours in North Carolina
- NBC preparing a blast from the past for Trump?
- When the smartest guys in the room forget the value of tradition
- Trump and the angry voters
- Trump and the DREAMers
- Trump's fib of Hillaryesque proportion?
- The Felonious Friends of Donald Trump
- The pope and the Donald: A matter of perspective
- Formative experiences: The young Sanders supporters
- Gaming Food Stamps (and not where you think)
- What the voting patterns in Iowa tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the top three GOP candidates
- Interesting family background of the Colorado Springs shooter
- Chicago Public Schools scandal affecting 2016 election
- More polling sample shenanigans?
- What is being measured here?
- The Trump bubble
- The Next Speaker?
- 'Scientific' Internet polling
- Nonsense and Sensiibilities among the Transgendered
- Calvin Coolidge the most underappreciated president of the last century
- Is Marriage On the Way Out?
- What did Rachel Dolezal do to her adopted brother Izaiah?
- Rachel Dolezal case: Prepare for more shocks
- N. Carolina GOP puts the lie to media stereotypes with its new chairman
- SCOTUS rules Muslim headscarf must be accommodated at Abercrombie & Fitch
- The properly diverse candidate, Chicago Style
- Hastert: the gift that keeps giving (to the Democrats)
- Hillary's Nightmare: The Startling Parallels Between 'Inevitable' LBJ in 1968 and Hillary in 2016
- Stiffing the Tax Man: The part of the economy that has grown under Obama
- Strange bedfellows indeed
- Is Rahm's rebranding fail a warning for Hillary?
- A different perspective on Hope and Change
- Only thing not leaking is party affiliation
- No justice, no quiche?
- A Rolling Stone Does Gather Catfish
- You can't make this stuff up
- Food Network's Hunger Games
- Yipee ki yay, Mr. Gruber
- Startling Change in North Carolina Early Voting Pattern
- Jane Austen in the White House
- It's official: trolls are fiendish
- Bitter abortion advocate demonstrates to Rush Limbaugh that no good deed goes unpunished
- TCM's Israeli Film Festival Tonight!
- Obama: The presidency that wasn't there
- Genes: Cue the Twilight Zone music
- World Cup schism?
- The return of tuberculosis
- Cracks -- and wrinkles, too
- Fauxcahantus, beware
- A check does not an employee make
- Was Koskinen sent over from Central Casting?
- The ruling class ignores at its peril two important anniversaries coming up
- Democrat governor apologizes for gun control law he signed
- New poll shows another incumbent Senate seat (and governorship) may be trouble for Dems
- Hillary's selective memory
- Just Another Narrative About Privilege
- The Democrats' bench strength
- An out for the Democrats?
- Mainstream media fleeing Obama
- Homeland Security likely to remain homeless
- Dem voter ID fear-mongering collides with reality in rural North Carolina
- Another North Carolina Senate Primary
- Dems running into more Texas trouble
- Who is Ray Madrigal?
- Is AARP getting Obamacare blowback?
- The warm winter that wasn't
- Twilight of Pelosi?
- The next senior Democrat to drop out?
- Wendy Davis: As the Soap Churns
- Wendy Davis is more tone deaf than Joe Biden
- Poverty, White Privilege, and Short Memories
- Reality Bites Gays
- Female sexual predators in government schools
- Barack and Michelle: The Love Story
- Obamacare's opportunity cost
- What does Amazon know?
- A long flight back home for Barack (updated)
- What will Andrew Sullivan say?
- The right comparison to healthcare.gov
- Technical Knock Out?
- One way to avoid a recall
- Another reason Senate Dems will rue the day they ended the filibuster
- New York Times signals Dems that it's time to ditch Obamacare?
- Virginia to Washington, D.C.: Take this county, please!
- Obamacare apologists' faulty assumption
- Pelosi's latest whopper
- The Ghost of Vietnam Will Haunt Obamacare
- Colorado recall effort targets another anti-gun state senator
- Good questions
- National Park Service: Wolves in Service Dog Harness
- Arbitrary and Unconscionable
- National Park Service Gone Wild (updated)
- Hurting your friends?
- All your parks are belong to us
- Dems Going for Broke
- Oops!
- Why are Incumbent Dems Hiding from Sunday Talk Shows?
- Detroit's Pension Ponzi Scheme
- A new kind of woman popping up in advertising
- Solar panels big issue for fire fighters
- The Colorado recall was about more than gun control
- Too Close for Comfort
- Syria splintering Dems
- The Guns of September?
- Grinding to a halt
- Who's the oppressor now in Harlan County?
- Oprah's Farewell to Middlebrow
- Why journalists are so liberal
- Bullfighters, not rodeo clowns
- Medicine's Whiz Kids?
- Court slaps down Obama for disreagrding laws he doesn't like
- Detroit City Charter is big problem
- Poster Girl
- LA Times in search of the elusive black victim
- Detroit: Organized for failure
- New pop culture villains?
- Angela Corey, bringing people together
- Beyond parody
- Texas abortion fanatics too much even for Satan?
- Happy Independence Day!
- Language lesson for pro-life people
- Time to update a classic?
- Common problem
- Prominent Blacks Deserting the Liberal Plantation
- Where are the adoring crowds today?
- On the 12th Day of Xmas the NSA gave to me
- What Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortions?
- Blaming Cincinnati for IRS scandal is so wrong
- Who's getting rich off of GOP defeat?
- Former IL Rep. Mel Reynolds seeks 'redemption' by running for Congress again
- Our Winter of Discontent?
- Jesse Jackson Jr. Reported Plea Bargaining
- Orca implications
- Conservatives Harpooned by Orca
- Lucky O
- So who stayed home?
- A stunning admission on polling
- Confession of a Former Low-Information Voter
- Driftglass Republicans
- Minnesota and Oregon Newspapers Not Endorsing Obama
- A Sickly Pale Blue
- More signs Minnesota moving toward Romney
- Minnesota in play?
- A Mile South & Four Years Later....
- The Dems' long term strategic mistake?
- Obama's gonna need a bigger October Surprise than this
- Horse Laughs for Obama
- Minnesota
- Could Perot endorsement of Romney swing Minnesota?
- My must read in the coming days
- Let the leaks begin
- Biblical Biden
- Media's Obama Narrative Collides with Reality
- The 70 million who watched the debate
- Trouble in Obama's back yard?
- Elizabeth Warren and the 'little guy'
- Yes, we have no researchers
- We are the 91%
- Your Universal Service Fee at Work
- Chick-fil-A wronged by media again
- A lot of explaining to do
- Insight on the Middle East from an unusual data point
- Strictly a local problem?
- How solid is the black vote for Obama?
- Marching thru Charlotte
- Welcome to the Hornet's Nest, DNC
- Boffo Box Office for 2016
- If this had been a Republican...
- My name is OBAMANDIAS (updated: karma has struck)
- He Made My Day
- Is Mitt Becoming More Conservative?
- Imagine if a Republican...
- A Silver Lining
- Captive Audience
- Obama Underwater in Cook County?
- Southern Poverty Law Center's Lucrative 'Hate Group' Label
- Another example of Obama's Chicago Values
- Ominous silence for Obama
- Lefty Wannabe Superman v homeless man
- Media finally find something to cover at Chick-fil-A
- Chicago virtue versus Chicago values
- Chicago Native Has Questions for His Mayor
- Jokers then and now
- Carrying coal to Dusseldorf
- Back to We the People
- The White House Fast Food Soap Opera
- Obama,the bride at every wedding
- Biden goes full Howard Dean
- To the Olympics for Ann Romney
- Payback Is a Hound Dog
- Oh those Geico commercials
- The Left and Con Men
- Arrogance in Chief
- Obama and Warren, the fabulists
- Obama's Kenyan birth claim: The Kgosie Matthews factor
- Hard to believe Obama didn't approve literary agent listing him as born in Kenya
- Crunching the North Carolina numbers
- Obama's Historical Fiction
- Too many Hilary Rosens
- Hybrids: Once was enough for most
- Guess who flunks the diversity test?
- Fashion icons
- Those who can't laugh are lost
- Bad week for the EPA
- The Chicago Way: a Timeline
- The bad news from Illinois
- What about the war against men?
- Duties, Priorities, and Arrogance
- Law School Priorities
- Coincidence?
- Mitt, the Outsider
- The bubble wrapped White House
- The unofficial end of global warming?
- Newt's New Game
- Romney's Problem with Main Street
- Warm, Fuzzy & On Target
- GOP elites, the base, and the GOP brand
- Two word response
- Our off the books economy
- Newt: The Civil Warrior
- Obama's marketing boo-boo
- Huge fire on federal lands
- Selling cars (or not)
- Ponzi Scheme Pedigree
- Environmentalists self-destructing
- Disillusioned
- The Democrat Republicans want to run against
- Duck! It's a Flying Pig
- Obama's Joint Session Blunder
- From Yamhill to Clueless
- Doubting Thomas No More
- Fretful practices
- Hurricane danger inland, too
- Rick Perry a 'mensch'
- When the floor became the ceiling
- Pets, People, and Civilization
- Obama boxes himself in on jobs
- Bailing on the USS Obama
- Why the Left Elites Are Criticizing Obama
- Obama firearms boom continues
- DOT targets farm tractors
- Politics in command on economic policy
- Obama's base losing faith
- Fat for the fire
- The Price of Wishful Thinking
- Build your own Obama speech
- Poll games: read those crosstabs!
- Poll games
- Sauce for the Gerrymander
- Michelle O's Porked-Up Food Folly
- Voting Integrity Also a Rural Issue
- Another Demosaur Headed for Extinction?
- The Pigford Pig-Out and the Election
- Ad Wars: Republicans Are Winning
- A President Who Wants to Be Anywhere but Here
- Strip Mines into Elk Habitat
- Two Cheers for Old-Fashioned Political Scoundrels
- The Winds of Over-Regulation
- Shirley Sherrod and the Race Grievance Industry
- Obama's White House Is 'Too White'?
- Fair Tax Distraction
- Voter Backlash Beyond ObamaCare
- No Taxation with Misrepresentation?
- A Trail of Broken Promises to Nowhere
- The Brown-Coakley Race, 1978 Version
- Something about Martha
- Global Warming's New Clothes
- Fresh Faces Require Fresh Techniques
- Who lost NY 23 for the GOP?
- Flush with self righteousness
- The Democrats re-fight an old battle
- Congress on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Some things don't change
- Honing those pitchforks
- The high cost of the simple life
- Hillary and Barack: Can this relationship be saved?
- Obamaville City Limits
- Women and the Iranian Unrest
- Comedy, Bullies, and American Politics
- Obama's Broken Feedback Loop
- Will the GOP Leadership Fail on Sotomayor?
- What do women want? A timeless question
- Lessons from the Coldest Winter
- Who caused the housing bubble?
- Will an angry electorate hand the election to Obama?
- Father Pfleger Ousted by his Cardinal
- The Lessons of West Virginia
- Obama's other spiritual mentor and the Catholic Church
- Nonprofits Escaping Tax on Unrelated Business Activities
- Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory and Busted Sod
- The Big Loser in the Election: Old Media
- Lackluster Leadership and the Coming Election Battle
- Faith, Reason, the PC media and Islam
- A Modest Proposal for a Telecommuting Congress
- When 88% is not good enough
- The War Zone Within the New York Times Company
- Al Gore Redux
- North Country
- A Modest Proposal
