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My 2010 Midterm Election Predictions

This blog has a no politics policy, but there is an exception once every year before the elections.  One of the things that always stuck with me as a political scientist wannabe is the need to make electoral predictions so I can be held accountable for the analysis I make about elections.  Political analysts excel

What Hatoyama’s Resignation Teaches Us About Responsible Government

In 2003, conservative commentator Billy Krystol spoke at Boston College and foretold the rough road ahead for the Republicans by astutely observing, "There's nothing more difficult than being in power."

The flip side is equally true: there's nothing easier--and more irresponsible--than not being in power.  This is a lesson the just-resigned Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama

A Thirteen Month Anniversary for the Blog

Today, this blog turns 13 months old.  I would have celebrated the one year anniversary if only I had remembered to celebrate it.  That I'd forgotten is actually fitting for this rather irrelevant blog.

In 13 months, I have written 76 posts, averaging nearly 6 posts a month.  While the pace has slowed, I've tried to
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