Chris Bowers does a fine job with the popular vote question: The problem with this popular vote total is that it is a moral argument about the will of the participants in the Democratic nomination campaign, not a legal argument over the definition of the winner...
Probably not ideal to refer to a professional journalist as "sweetie" on the same day that you receive an endorsement from NARAL. A "bad habit" indeed; if I ever did.
NARAL and John Edwards come out for Obama. The former's explanation here. It obviously makes sense; Obama and Clinton have indistinguishable records on reproductive rights, McCain has an extremely bad.
I would like to join Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee in scolding certain bloggers who yesterday chose to make light of President Bush's ominous warnings of a disaster in Iraq. If we have learned nothing else from his seven years in office, we have learned that when President Bush...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking to farmers in Washington, D.C., 14 May 1935It is high time for us to repeat on every occasion that we have not wastefully destroyed food in.
1. It's a terrible idea.2. It's a terrible idea because...The problem with Burma right now is that the civil service infrastructure is by turns unable and unwilling to manage the.
The Chinese appear to be stealing an effective and marketable Russian weapon design; the Russian response is to threaten a lawsuit:Russia is getting more and more upset at what it sees as Chinese making unauthorized use of Russian military technology. The latest irritation is the new...
Reading some comment threads about the now-meaningless WV primary, I feel compelled to quote the GOS:To all you Obama supporters tempted to belittle or insult West Virginia, just remember how.
The Times:The Missouri legislature is, as Ian Urbina reported in The Times on Monday, on the verge of passing an amendment to the State Constitution that would require proof of.
Like the President, I gave up golf in order to honor the sacrifice of our soldiers in Iraq. Last year, I gave up non-diet pop to honor our soldiers in Afghanistan. In 2006, I gave up fried cheese in order to honor our soldiers in Portugal....
I took a two-credit foil fencing class during my first semester of college. At least half of us, I imagine, were there because we'd listened to too much Iron Maiden.
Herbert Hoover, in a letter to Chesla Sherlock, managing editor of The Ladies' Home Journal, 13 May 1932:A home and the home owner are the best credit risks in our.