I’m a tech guy in my professional life. I design and create software for a living and I follow the news around the software world very closely. I’ve been thinking about what issues would be most important from a tech perspective for the 2016 presidential election, and patent reform is hands-down number one. Several years… Continue Reading
For me, blog posts like this are only interesting if I make a solid prediction, backed by the evidence I see, that can then be verified in the future to show whether I’m brilliant and insightful or ignorant and contemptible. Here’s today’s prediction: there is essentially no way that Jeb Bush can become president of… Continue Reading
The historic pattern for one seeking to become the president of the United States has been to run your primary election campaign away from the political center, towards the activist base of your party. You then swing back towards the center, once you’ve secured your party’s nomination, so you can catch the necessary chunk of… Continue Reading
Hillary Clinton is the only horse the Democrats have in the 2016 presidential race, and everyone knows this. True, there were those who thought she was the “inevitable” candidate in 2008, but there was also an awareness at the time of rising stars such as Barack Obama, who were just (incorrectly) thought to be a… Continue Reading
I’ve stated in my bio on this site that I’m a big fan of the weekly political wrap on the PBS News Hour with Mark Shields and David Brooks. It happens each Friday during the last 12 minutes of the nightly News Hour broadcast, usually hosted by News Hour co-anchor Judy Woodruff, and it’s my… Continue Reading
Scott Walker, the current governor of Wisconsin, had sounded to me like someone who’d universally be considered a top contender for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. I’d only been peripherally aware of him, mostly from his showdown with unions in his state a couple of years ago. He withstood major protests and… Continue Reading
I was very disappointed when Mitt Romney officially announced last week that he would not, on third thought, run for president in 2016. My own disappointment, however, was different from that of most others in my same demographic (white Mormon males): I never wanted Romney to actually be president. I supported Barack Obama in both… Continue Reading
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