Ronald Reagan, during remarks at the signing of the Just Say No Week proclamation, 20 May 1986:Because of these grassroots efforts, all of us, inside government and out, are seeing a change of attitude about drug abuse. Public awareness has increased dramatically in the past several...
The greatest hitting catcher ever retires.Whether he is the greatest catcher ever is tough to say, of course, since it all comes down to how much the defensive edge of.
I predict that if Barack Obama wins a double digit victory in Kentucky today, Senator Clinton will concede. Judging solely by conversation with my small group of Lexington friends, this.
So the National Fatherhood Initiative -- one of the great sluice boxes for wingnut welfare -- has linked arms with the tee-totalers at Anheuser-Bush to create a site called "Positive Parenting," which aims to provide wholesome advice to anyone seeking to discourage their teens from drinking....
GOP vote suppression guru Hans Von Spakovsky cries in the Wall Street Journal about unfairly being denied a spot in the FEC for such trivial matters as lying to the.
As Vito Fossella ends his political career in disgrace, let us remember such things as his belief that the Constitution of the United States should be amended to explicitly make.
Harry Truman, in a message to Congress, 19 May 1947:National health insurance is the most effective single way to meet the Nation's health needs. Because adequate treatment of many illnesses is expensive and its cost cannot be anticipated by the individual, many persons are forced to...
In addition to his election maps, here are a few other items that Karl Rove has offered the credulous Jake Tapper:a shoebox filled with old baseball cards, the highlight of.
In response to Eugene Volokh, I should say that I'm perhaps making a slightly different argument than the one he's addressing. My point about the vote in the legislature, as.
I'm not sure, reading this NY Times story about "purity" balls, whether this incarnation of the ball beast is better or worse than the more common one, in which girls pledge their virginity to their fathers. Here that the event is so patently misogynist (not to...
George Packer writes:If the fear of Baghdad and Falluja is what keeps foreign powers from saving huge numbers of Burmese from their own government’s callousness, that will be one more.
I remember in the 2004 Playoffs there was a trend of reversing them calls and getting them right. I liked that much more than overruling clear home runs based on.