Month: December 2007

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I am not without sympathy for Dennis Ross’ position on Iranian uranium enrichment. Ross makes many good points. But he’s not putting the focus in the correct place. For Ross, the issue isn’t whether or not Iran...

And a GREAT big Season’s Greetings to y’all as well. REALLY. In today’s fine front-paged post on My left Wing, Did I Feel A Draft?, the poster know as “forgiven” made a number of points about the...

The first time I was politically active was during the Eugene McCarthy campaign, followed by the Humphrey campaign. That was the first year I distributed information, discussed issues with others and, of course, the first time I...

River Cities Reader George McGovern finished second in 1972 – the year the modern caucus process started – and still won the Democratic nod. When Jimmy Carter won the presidency in 1976, he finished second in the...