What’s Wrong with the Colorado GOP?

by Bob Adelmann | 1:18 am, March 7, 2013

by Bob Adelmann John Ransom thinks he knows. He’s been inside the beast and the picture isn’t pretty.  Ransom used to be active in Colorado politics and knows personally both aspirants to become chairman of the state’s GOP. He likes them both, and considers each of them friends. But friends is friends and business is [...]

W and the GOP Gave the Election to Obama

by Bob Adelmann | 1:04 pm, November 11, 2012

I put great store in what Baldwin says. Republican Party loyalists won’t like it. Often the truth hurts.

More Positives from Tuesday’s Election

by Bob Adelmann | 5:32 pm, November 10, 2012

It was not an unmitigated disaster after all.

One Last Look at the Polls

by Bob Adelmann | 1:45 pm, November 5, 2012

Polling is interesting in and of itself. And predictions for Tuesday are interesting, too. But neither means a whit if both candidates are cut from the same piece of cloth, which they are.

Looking Behind the Latest Jobs Report Numbers

by Bob Adelmann | 4:11 pm, November 4, 2012

As volatile and flimsy as the BLS numbers are, they cannot disguise an economy that is going nowhere, nor the trouble that Obama is in.

Hurricane Sandy’s Impact on the Election

by Bob Adelmann | 10:04 am, November 3, 2012

The number of undecided voters is so small that, barring a catastrophic political faux pas of some kind either by Obama or Romney, Hurricane Sandy isn’t likely to have much an impact.

Can We Expect a Carbon Tax from Romney?

by Bob Adelmann | 11:29 am, October 29, 2012

In a cogent, persuasive and biting article at Forbes magazine, Marlo Lewis shows that Republican establishment Romney and his Republican establishment friends and advisors want to blur [further, if that's possible] any distinction between Democrats and Republicans. This will resolve, once and for all, any doubts that the parties are two wings of the same bird of prey. The issue [...]

The Trouble with Outright Monetary Transactions

by Bob Adelmann | 6:37 am, October 29, 2012

It’s a game, a charade. Even if the central bank’s president lies through his teeth, his audience believes him anyway. Is there no one there to exclaim: “The emperor is naked!”?

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