End of Year Update
Blog. December 31st, 2010The last day of 2010 seems like a good time to update the site.
For Salon, I spoke to Ron Paul about his thoughts on making a 2012 presidential election bid. If Paul does not run, Gary Johnson may well emerge as the libertarian standard-bearer. The piece also includes Johnson’s comments.
Also for Salon, Steny Hoyer told me about his predictions for the next Congress just before November’s midterm elections. Of course, at the time I assumed (like many people) that Hoyer would become the Democratic Party’s leader in the House soon afterward. Oops.
Staying with the midterm elections, I argued that “tea is the Republican Party’s cocaine” in The Guardian. After the results came in, I also wrote about how indifferently Sarah Palin’s preferred candidates had performed.
Later, I wrote for Capital New York about why third parties and independent political movements have generally thrived in other western democracies but foundered in the U.S.
I rarely link here to my articles for The Sunday Business Post, but I’ll make an exception for a long piece I wrote in November, which asked: Is America in Decline?
Finally, a couple of TV appearances have been added to the “TV & Radio” page. I appeared on “Crosstalk”, a discussion program on RT, Russia’s equivalent of CNN, and on UTV Live Tonight back home in Ireland. The subject on both occasions was the midterm elections.
Thanks for reading and all the very best for 2011.