R.I.P. GOP: A Christmas Retrospective

Are the Republican Party, and the two-party system, still headed for disaster?

Last April, I speculated about what the political landscape might look like after the dust has settled from battle within the Republican Party.  I didn’t lay down any sort of time frame, but this seems as good an opportunity as any to take a look back at the last eight months and see how things are playing out. Continue reading…

Missing are the Peacemakers

On October 9th, the Nobel Committee set off a firestorm across the political spectrum when they announced that they had selected President Obama to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  We won’t know who his competition was for fifty years (nominee lists are embargoed for half a century, probably to ensure that anyone on the list is dead when it’s released) but what we do know is that potential nominees were pretty thin on the ground in 2008, especially given the guidelines Nobel laid out for the Prize:

…The person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

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