Month: October 2007

I have been listening to C-SPAN2 live broadcast of a late night Senate session debating the nomination of Judge Southwick for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. I was appalled by the despicable spectacle of Senator Dianne...

Back in the summer of 1988 I was sitting on a boathouse deck on Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks reading the New York Times. There was an article about the potential vice-presidential picks for George Herbert Walker Bush. It...

Not many people can (or will) politicize a human tragedy like right wing talk show hosts do. First it was Glen Beck with his statement that the America haters in Southern California were losing their homes to the raging wild...

A quick look at the parties’ fundraising numbers shows that there is little for the Republicans to celebrate. Their recruitment is appalling. The current composition of the House of Representative is 233 Democrats, 200...

where you and i are standing on the end of a century europes have sprung up everywhere as even i can see but there on the horizon is the possibility some bug from out of africa might come for you and me destroying everything in...