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Commenter Sara at Just One Minute gives us this little gem. Well, the owner of the dry cleaners my d-i-l manages came in this morning and informed 3 of the workers that because of Obama’s election and the higher taxes he is facing as a result, 3 employees would be eliminated. He then let them…

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the…

Rather than start the day by criticizing the president elect, I thought I’d start by criticizing the criticism of the criticism. From Mitch Albom’s page 2 editorial in today’s Detroit Free Press: For nearly eight years, anyone who dared to criticize President George W. Bush risked being called unpatriotic. The people doing this name calling…

Eric makes the point in his post A building, not a tent, that economic conservatism is the cement that held the Republican party together. Commenter Bob Smith made a very interesting point that confirms that view. Another commenter asks a question: I don’t know exactly who is to blame for the disappeance of the cement…

In case there’s anyone who’s been asleep, Barack Obama has won the election. (At least, Fox has called it for him.) Now I can start hoping. (That he can turn out to be more moderate or even more libertarian than I thought.) At times like this, it’s comforting to remember that anything is possible. The…

One of the points I tried to make earlier on PJTV was that I think it’s a mistake to accelerate the dividing of the Republican Party into competing sides (or factions, wings, whatever you want to call them) by working towards a takeover of the party by one faction or another. I think it might…

Let’s see. I’ve been watching early returns trickle in slowly, and I feel like drinking (regardless of who wins). It doesn’t help my sobriety to see that Stephen Green is drunkblogging the results, but the final blow was what Glenn Reynolds said here: AFTER YOU’VE VOTED, knock back an Obama Mama or a Maverick Martini.…

Flipping through the channels, I just saw this Fox News exit poll report: 30% will be scared if McCain wins 23% will be scared if Obama wins They didn’t disclose the percentage of people who were scared to answer the poll. MORE: Here’s the excitement factor: 32% will be excited if Obama wins 12% will…

Having complained that I am tired of the “endless cycles of presumptive illegitimacy,” which “means staying in the kitchen and complaining about the heat,” perhaps I should explain what I meant by “the kitchen.” What I mean is that assuming someone has a clear win tonight, beginning tomorrow, I am going to be treated to…

In one of the most cogent explanations I’ve seen of the phenomenon, Evan Coyne Maloney explains why he’s a small “L” libertarian: I consider myself a libertarian for two reasons. First and foremost: for the betterment of the human race. True, these aren’t easy days to proclaim oneself an unashamed capitalist. But whatever governmental market…

What a coincidence that I titled that last post “Never has arrived,” because I just expended nearly two hours voting. The actual time from arriving at my polling place to finally voting was one hour and ten minutes. Huge lines were compounded by incredible pollworker ineptitude, but the biggest problem was that each voter of…

Speaking of nostalgia, gas can now be found in the Detroit area for under $2.00 a gallon! Just a few months ago, most experts said Americans would never see gas prices anywhere close to $2 a gallon again. Never has arrived. According to DetroitGasPrices.com, prices at nine gas stations in metro Detroit were below $2…

Sean Malestrom is looking at one of the things the pollsters are missing. The anecdote factor. Why is it important? Because polling is an atr not a science. First how about leading indicators. Actual facts on the ground that can be checked. In my second post about the election, I told you to keep an…

I had twenty topics ready for blog posts today, but I’m just not into it: maybe later. No retreat – get out and vote. And bring a friend. Every vote counts – if even just a as show of support. If McCain wins this – and I’m optimistic – the popular vote totals will be…

I realize Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and All Saints Day have come and gone, but this time of year always makes me think of death and nostalgia. From 1989, here’s a song that most epitomizes the two (for me at least) — the Pet Shop Boys’ video version of “Always On My Mind.”…

While I don’t like to question the timing of every last thing that happens, I find it interesting that Sarah Palin’s exoneration in the so-called “Troopergate” affair didn’t become public until too late in the election for any voters to have time to process it. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A report has cleared Alaska Gov.…

Of all the woodblock prints Salvador Dal&iacute did to illustrate Dante’s Divine Comedy, my favorite is “Schicchi’s Bite.” I finally got one, which I scanned before matting and framing. As you can see, it’s not signed by Dal&iacute, but if it was, it would have cost thousands of dollars. Even then, the man’s signatures are…

The “lost” (and recently discovered) video that M. Simon linked earlier in which Barack Obama outlines his plan to bankrupt the coal industry has naturally raised many hackles. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of links; Ed Driscoll has lots of details and Don Surber provides context. Here is what Barack Obama actually said: “I was…

At least, he’s causing Victor Davis Hanson to have hope: Obama himself at various times in his memoirs–never have presidential autobiographies sold so many copies, and yet have been so little read by the press–talked about people seeing in him what they wished. And now on the eve of the election, I confess I have…

Considering that dead people are voting in unprecedentedly high numbers, I’m wondering about something. Who polls the dead? How are we supposed to know how a dead person might vote. And since I’m on the subject of death, I’d like to predict something. If McCain somehow wins tomorrow, I predict the death of polling as…