At about this time in 2011, after purchasing home heating oil for $3.50 a gallon, the second highest price paid since 2003 when I moved back to New Hampshire, I did some analysis on my blog about usage and costs. I requested a complete purchase spreadsheet from our oil company –...

Mitch McConnell’s reaction to the death of Antonin Scalia, that any nomination should wait until the next president is elected, is just another glaring example of what is wrong with the Supreme Court nomination process. President Obama is required to make a nomination; it’s part...

Trump’s America: There’s nothing irrational about Donald Trump’s appeal to the white working class, writes Charles Murray: they have every reason to be angry. Photo posted on Patch courtesy of Jeffrey Hastings/Frame of Mind Photography. FrameofMindPhoto.com.

I thought for sure that the polls before New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary would tighten … but, they didn’t. Actually, they widened, and voters gave Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders decisive, massive victories, while voter turnout was the highest in the...

Predictions … Since I was completely wrong on Iowa, why not try again? First, the GOP: Trump by at least 10 percent. I think the polling is high but not that high. It’s been a 15 to 20 point lead for many, many months. I don’t see it collapsing even with so many people...

Well, well, well … What I saw in Iowa convinced me Hillary Clinton is the best qualified candidate to lead a broken, corrupt system

Thankfully… and, no, this is not all the mailers I received for the 2016 New Hampshire primary; it’s just some of them…

Karma, sometimes, is a bitch. Goodbye, The Boston Courant, or, The Back Bay Courant, when I worked for it in the late 1990s: Back Bay newspaper’s famous refusal to put up a Web site has driven it out of business I could write a very, VERY long blog post or maybe even a short book about...

Iowa is a maelstrom which is why a lot of folks advise presidential candidates to ignore it entirely and focus on trying to get wins in other states, like New Hampshire, to build the delegate count. Vote fraud and dirty tricks, of any kind, are always an unknown. However, I don’t know...

I wrote this on a Facebook thread this morning and figured it was worth a quick post. I’m going to be busy for the next few days but here are some thoughts about Iowa. Let’s see how I do tonight: Predictions: For the Dems: Sanders over Clinton by 8%-ish. I’m going to suspect...