The Democrats are +1 in the House, with Stephanie Herseth having won. Good news--if there's anything better than a Democratic Congressperson, it's a hot Democratic Congressperson. Picking up a seat in the relatively poor, rural, but culturally conservative state of South Dakota reminds me of a...
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In one of the least surprising developments in legal history, the recent federal act criminalizing D&E abortions was struck down in federal courts. This was inevitable, because the law directly contradicted.
Despite my first post here, I don't plan to use this blog to engage in handwringing about past failings on my part. I'll comment on blogs and politics, like my.
Elton Beard effectively sums up Tom Friedman's latest ad hoc theory. But what strikes me most about it is that he chooses an example that completely repudiates his thesis: Is Vladimir Putin's Russia today a Jeffersonian democracy? Of course not. But it is a huge nation that...
Ezra Klein has an interesting discussion about the latest journalistic thumbsucker about blogs. My favorite part of the article he cites, however, is its discussion of the blogosphere's "rock stars," which.
When it comes to pragmatic arguments about Nader, I basically don't see the point. That Gore would have won had Nader not run in 2000 is indisputable; trying to argue.
Welcome to our blog. More on who we are and what we're up to soon, if we feel like it. I can't imagine how you found or why you're reading it at this point, but welcome. Since this is a nominally public forum, I'll say...
So here I am, the first syllable of the blogspot address...
Briscoe and McCoy on the weekend... UPDATE: This post was to test out link-creating. It seems to work fine. And because it's a pretty cool picture, on Law and Order,.
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