Loaded Dogma

Embed from Getty Images Welcome back to Loaded Dogma, an Australian political blog. I have not posted for ten years. I will try not to lea...

Right then, so about those American politics they've got down there. As with the recent boringness of Australian politics, there ha...

View image | gettyimages.com Two moments of non-elite partisans communicating to party elites of the right have seemed most meanin...

If we are indeed in an era where identity politics wins elections, and the right is the natural winner of such contests because it's...

There are a lot of parallels between Australian and American politics at the moment. Last year, Tony Abbott won government by running an ...

The quantum entanglement of the quants over the 2014 midterm elections in America has collapsed, in the form of a wave for the Republican...

Not much posting lately, for which I apologise. Three month old firstborn child, you understand. Not that much of long term interest has b...

If this was the sort of poliblog that was in the live cattle business - carving up fresh meat for a ready audience of like-minded noddie ...

Reading this WaPo piece on exactly how Americans hate the Republican Party , it put me in mind of similar polls on Obamacare, which also ...

Lest I be accused of running a hate site against Club Troppo after my previous article criticising aspects of their wonkery, today's...

After the recent shooting down of passenger flight MH17 with around 300 dead by Ukrainian separatists and/or the Russian military, Sincla...

I was retweeted by Brad Delong today for linking to  Stephen Koukoulas' latest missive  on the results of the current Liberal federal...

Just as economists seem to be talking about nothing else but Thomas Piketty and inequality these days, it seems to me in reading politica...

Ezra Klein details the Green Lantern Theory of the American presidency , something which the US Left uses constantly to bash Barack Obama...

Following on from yesterday's thoughts on the death of Joe McCarthy , I fully endorse the Balloon Juice idea of dropping the stale, ...

Via Steve from Brisbane comes a link to a Fairfax piece on why the home insulation program royal commission has been a political flop . ...

- On one hand, we have the right saying that the market will decide so we don't need anti-discrimination laws  to prevent gays having...

I am not going to make a habit of dissecting RMIT economist Steve Kates' posts at Catallaxy Files here at LD because he doesn't d...

The American left has reacted to recent opinion polls depicting Hillary Clinton as the unchallenged successor to Barack Obama - unassailed...

Fellow Catallaxy Files exile Steve from Brisbane has had his Opinion Dominion blog linked by Yank  Canuck wingnut footsoldier Mark Steyn ...