By Linda Anselmi on Jan 14, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
In its 2010 “Citizens United” decision, the US Supreme Courts held that: Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. While corporations or unions may not give money directly to campaigns, they [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Jan 9, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Romney is still the guy to beat. But Huntsman may be taking his turn at a surge. According to Public Policy Polling in NH (note Buddy Roemer moved ahead of Perry!): Mitt Romney continues to be headed for a comfortable win in New Hampshire. PPP’s final poll there finds him with 35% to 18% for [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Jan 4, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
While Mitt Romney managed to eke out a tiny win of 8 votes in the Iowa Caucuses, it created a mighty big target for others to begin counting coup. And some unlikely candidates for President are feeling lucky! Rejecting the Republican pack, Gary Johnson goes full Libertarian while scoring highest on civil liberties and adherence to the [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Dec 14, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
~Bumped Up~ The MSM likes to depict any election as a horse race, but the more I watch the 2012 presidential nomination process and particularly the debates, the more it feels like I’m watching the waning days of a Wild West Show. See what you think… Posters have been up all over town for weeks, [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 30, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey has a few telling remarks about the inability of the President and Congress to get things done.
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 21, 2011 in Current Affairs, Electability | View Comments
Just to keep you up-to-date with all the latest tail swats and whinnies coming from the 2012 presidential horse race … The Iowa State poll of likely caucus-goers has Herman Cain leading at 25%, Ron Paul running a hard second with 20% and Mitt Romney trailing respectably in third with 16%. But the surprise dark [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 16, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
~Bumped Up~ As the numbers of alleged victims continues to grow, this issue remains pertinent. What does it say about our society and the people within it, when the measure of a man (or woman) is his success at achieving the maximum in money and power with the minimum morality required by the law or [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Nov 12, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Nate Silver at the NYTimes suggests The Gingrich Surge Has Come. And he has an interesting series of graphs showing every one of the Republican candidates for president are flat or falling – except Newt Gingrich. The atlantic has a short list of What to Watch For in tonight’s Republican foreign policy debate in South Carolina. [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Oct 6, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
This post is not an endorsement of Gary Johnson by me or anyone at No Quarter. This post is about the American people’s right to be the deciders. It is also about a candidates equal opportunity to be heard. And it is about the absurdity of the entertainment (MSM) industry running our debates and doing [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Sep 14, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Occasionally a discussion develops on our writers group that lends itself to sharing with NQ readers with the hope of continuing the dialogue… As regular readers know, the writers under Larry Johnson’s No Quarter banner came together in passionate support of Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential election — and NEVER joined the “Hope and Change” bandwagon. [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Sep 10, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
It is nothing short of amazing the amount of energy people are willing to expend fighting change. Change is a fact of life. It routinely happens without our knowledge. And it frequently happens without our consent. We can only hope to not be caught totally unaware and that the timing at least manages to work in [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 20, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Last week, a friend sent me a fun bit of political humor (h/t S. Moss): The movie Wizard of Oz is 72 years old. Today, if Dorothy were to encounter Men with no brains, no hearts, and no courage She wouldn’t be in Oz …
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 11, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped up * Throughout our history, it took a strong leader, a bold plan, and a unified American people to get us through our toughest times and enabled us to build an even brighter future. And yet here we are once again facing the abyss, without any of the three. Where is our strong [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 5, 2011 in Current Affairs, Economy | View Comments
If you’ve been wondering why President Obama’s “fixes” for solving healthcare, unemployment, the housing foreclosure crisis and now the debt ceiling “crisis’ have only managed to continue the downward spiral for the American people? If, since 2009, you’ve wondered why President Obama has been such an inept negotiator for the American people? Why his administration [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Aug 1, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
At the heart of a Republic is the protection of individual rights and liberties from both the omnipotence of a majority and the despotism of an elite through a limited, representative government and the rule of law as established by the consent of the governed. (A discussion of political systems and Republic vs Democracy) Our [...]
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