Voting While Guilty
by At Slate, Ron Rosenbaum says that it’s not wrong to vote for Barack Obama because of his race. This is an assertion I’m highly resistant …
Category: Politics
Voter ID Laws Rankle Left
Legal scholar Jeffery Toobin thinks laws requiring voters to show a valid picture ID before voting are biased in favor of Republicans. This argument makes …
Telcos, Money, and Immunity
Glen Greenwald’s latest piece on immunity for telecom companies that helped the government in the aftermath of 9/11 is one worth reading. Fundamentally the issue …
About that Dream Ticket… (or How a Bad Choice of Words Could End Hillary’s Political Career, Again)
The New York Post: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of …
Dream Ticket Happening?
CNN says that talks to create the Democratic party’s Dream Team are underway. The word "difficult" was used, as you’d expect, given that Hillary has …
Dems Lied re Iraq to Win Congress
Jeff Emanuel’s excellent article about Representative Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) confirms what I’ve written for several months now: that the Democrats were dishonest about their intentions …
Yes on GI Bill, No on Timing
It’s got to be heartbreaking for President Bush and John McCain to be on the wrong side of the GI Bill debate. Interestingly, their position …
McCain & the Islam Problem
John McCain’s pastor problem, part 2, in the form of Reverend Rod Parsley, can be summed up in the minister’s own words about Islam. Parsley’s …
Clinton Voters Disenfranchised
Hillary Clinton is going down, down, down. But you’ve got to admire her tenacity. She said she was a fighter and we didn’t really believe …
Super-duper Delegate Scooper
Another day, another story about why Democratic superdelegates haven’t stepped into the Democratic primary battle like a referee, waived a battered Hillary Clinton to her …