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The Professor’s Corner – Independent-minded commentary from Michael on the 2008 election.
The Stimulus Saga Continues – Media Checks in
As the Stimulus/spending plan is being readied for a vote, major networks are already analyzing, critiquing, and predicting.
Here are a few selections across the spectrum, beginning with Sam Donaldson on [...]
Kevorkian’s Symbolic Win
Kevorkian’s run for Michigan’s 9th district House seat proved unsuccessful on November 4, 2008. Running as an Independent, he was heavily outpaced by both the Republican incumbent and Democrat rival. [...]
Election Day, Kicking it Wisconsin Style
Every place in the United States honors Election day in their own fashion. In the presidential candidates’ home states of Arizona and Illinois, the fever was higher than usual. Not [...]
Mad Money in the Same-Sex Marriage Argument
During the last 100 years, the states of California and New York have held the greatest sway over the United States’ laws and policies. In recent years, the state of [...]
Hate Politics Rise in Final Stretch
What do I mean by hate politics? I do not mean to imply that one hates the realm of politics– although those people do exist; rather, I by “hate politics” [...]
Hypocrisy Embedded in Obama Mailings
Aside from running a very successful funding raising campaign, Barack Obama has also made excellent use of 21st century electronics with the application of text messages and Emails. With over [...]
McCain vs. McCain Supporters
For those injected with the 2008 presidential madness, the pressure is beginning to rise and the End of Days is approaching. With each passing day, you probably look at the [...]
Late to the Game? A Guide for Undecideds
As the presidential race draws nearer, more and more people are vocal about the issues and their selected candidates. This is no surprise. The stakes are high in this election: [...]
Palin’s God Too Much for Presidency?
It seems as though past political attacks come back to haunt the Democrats and Republicans. After Republicans suffered sexist charges by the Democratic Party during the primaries, we now find [...]
Moves from Karl Rove’s Playbook
Rove 101: The point is get people to look at the image, rather than the actual candidate.
Politics is a realm of words, gestures, and representations. There are no rules, no [...]
The Palin Pick: Benefits and Baggage
Where are the Elizabeth Doles of today?
The question is actually anachronistic, as Elizabeth Dole is still active as a Senator, running for re-election in North Carolina. But after serving [...]
Overplaying Your Trump Card
Politicians that successfully maneuver themselves into the limelight often get there through exploiting their successes. This is not a new practice. In the sixteenth century, Italian philosopher Niccolò di Bernardo [...]
Much Ado About Nothing
I realize I have been absent for some time, and I have to partly blame this wonderful California weather for it. I must say, the embers and ashes certainly take [...]
A Tactic More Productive than War: Education
The United States’ self-declared war on terror(ism) has produced results, but not necessarily the kind that the current Bush administration desired. Since the infamous 9/11 attacks, which claimed the lives [...]
(Video) Another Fiery Pastor for McCain
With Barack Obama’s Jeremiah Wright scandal just beginning to fade, new scandals are surfacing for the Republican nominee, John McCain. At this point, there is very little for John McCain [...]
Political Suicide: The Democratic Convention
So what, I hear Clinton supporters argue, why shouldn’t she take this to the Democratic Convention? Well, it wouldn’t be a first time that a Democratic candidate took their bid [...]
The Impact of Race on the Democratic Primary: Part I
Issues on race and gender affect voting trends throughout the country, especially those for the current Democratic Primary. In this first of three commentaries on the impact of race on [...]
FOX News After Bush (Update)
News is biased. It is impossible to avoid this. Someone decides what news to focus on, how to display, and more importantly, how to contextualize it. No example demonstrates this [...]
The Liberal World of Academics
In the 1990s neo-conservatives began talking about ways to address the dangerous element of academics. For the most part, conservative pundits and shock jockeys suggested that the vast majority of [...]
How to Make Monsters
Every four years our country undergoes a vigorous and expansive campaign to tear down two politicians: The Republican and Democratic Nominees. And every year, after the liberal and conservative earth [...]
McCain’s Future Legal Battle: Campaign Finance Violations
Part of being a politician is playing to different constituents. This is almost a necessity when a politician is vying for a national office. One of the problems with this [...]
Stereotypes Are Made to Be Broken
For over a couple months, the Clinton campaign and the media have attacked Barack Obama of shepherding politically naive voters to the political circuit. Obama has generated more voter turnouts [...]
How to Keep Your Eye Off the Ball
As our economy begins to free fall and the official U.S death toll in Iraq exceeds 4,000, the majority of U.S citizens have their eyes on other issues. What are [...]
The Republicans’ Dilemma: Congress
I have some bad news for those who think John McCain will fix the Republican’s problems: He can’t. A few weeks back I wrote a commentary arguing that the Democratic [...]
Are You a Believer? Faith vs. Politics
We live in a country that proclaims to be secular, yet we find ourselves inundated by religion throughout our daily life. It is embedded in our legal system, medical practices, [...]
Democratic Primary Tight? It’s Been Over for Weeks
Almost one month ago I went on YD2008 Radio and explained that I had done the math and it was just not adding up. Hillary Clinton could not win the [...]
Obama Fumbles, Clinton Attacks
The Obama Campaign’s biggest strength entering the Iowa Caucus was its ability to dodge traditional political rhetoric and engage in a seemingly ethical manner. When Hillary Clinton’s Campaign went negative [...]
Independence, Democracy, and a Republic
The problem with our perception of tradition is that we always imagine tradition to be much older than it really is. Unlike many people’s perceptions of patriotic history, the United [...]
Something Is Rotten in the State of California
What has defined the U.S political system for over two hundred years is its form of liberal democracy, a representative government that dates back to 1776 and the creation of [...]
Misunderstanding Calls for Change: Refracturing the Political Crucible
Throughout the last two years, public support for the current administration has remained under 35%. This was punctuated during the numerous elections for Congress in 2006, when voters came out [...]
Super Bust? Polls and the Problems with Infotainment
For the past eight years voters throughout the United States have encountered national polling problems. From the 2000 ‘hanging chad’ syndrome in Florida, to the 2004 poll lines and poor [...]
The 11th Hour Tactics
Super Tuesday is beginning to look like an electoral landmark for the United States. In recent decades voter turnout has decreased to the point that high turnout democratic elections around [...]
Grass-Roots Donations and Momentum
Does the intensity of grass-roots donations greatly depend on public momentum? Ron Paul’s contributors do not seem to abide by this, but it seems as though we cannot say for [...]
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