My election postmortem.

After doing the conventional sitting around and yelling at everybody routine, I have decided to sober up my feelings about yesterday, and put them on this blog.  After all, that is why I started this blog in the first place: so that you can have a peek into the way that I see the world [...]

Today is Election Day. Some food for thought.

For me, this is the closest thing resembling a true national holiday.  Millions of people will get up this morning and exercise a right that people have died to preserve.  They died on some of our nation’s most hallowed grounds for days like today, and at 6:50 am this morning, I honored them by being [...]

The Sails of Progress

First and foremost, let me thank my friend Douglas Williams for inviting me to contribute to My Progressive Life. In short order, I will make a more formal and proper introduction of both myself, and more importantly my political and policy views. For now, however, I want to take some time to look closer at [...]

Election fun with friends: Picking winners in individual races.

Today, my friend Marshall and I had a very long conversation about the upcoming midterm elections.  Now, Marshall and I have different philosophies on various issues.  While I tend to be towards a leftist-progressive political viewpoint, Marshall would best be described as a “loyal, conservative Democrat”.  He tends to be pro-life, and his big issues [...]

Predictions for the upcoming elections.

Everybody has seemed to get in on the act of predicting what will happen in the next four days.  I do this knowing that I will likely be wrong.  But there are some tangible clues out there that make it somewhat possible to make predictions at this point.  I will explain those, and make my [...]

The truth about the people who oppose Missouri’s Proposition B.

I am obviously supportive of Missouri’s Proposition B, and I will affirm that support with my vote on November 2nd.  However, I thought it necessary to take time out to talk about the smear campaign that is occuring amongst Proposition B’s opponents. At the University of Missouri, we have “Speaker’s Circle”.  It is the only [...]

My Missouri Votes 2010 post.

So, the time has come for me to register my digital vote in the Missouri general election to be held on November 2, 2010 here at My Progressive Life.  The candidates that will get my support, and my opinions on the ballot measures are available after the jump:

Do governors matter for 2012?

People have been told that the real races to watch out for in 2010 are not the battles for the U.S. House or Senate, it is the governor’s races.  These governors’ races have the potential to shape the future of Congress by possibly controlling the redrawing of districts to their party’s advantage, and this has [...]

The postmortem on the Blanche Lincoln Democrats.

I have never wanted a Democrat to go down as badly as I want U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) to go down.  It is safe to say that the outcome that will be rendered in a little under three weeks will be to that effect.  In the last five polls that have been taken of [...]

Is there a point to Missouri’s Proposition A?

It is obviously a rhetorical question.  There is an definite point to Proposition A, and it will mean nothing short of the explosion of the budgets of Missouri’s two largest cities.  The ballot language reads as follows: Shall Missouri law be amended to: repeal the authority of certain cities to use earnings taxes to fund [...]