Month: January 2008

I want to talk a little bit about political honeymoons, or mandates for change, or political momentum, or whatever it is you call it when a new president comes into power and has a window of opportunity to get legislation...

I said a few weeks ago that the January 6 incident between U.S. and Iranian naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz might tell us more about the nature of today’s news reporting than about the prospects for war and peace in...

Ohio: Lawsuit Over Primary Ballots The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to block the March 4 presidential primary in Ohio’s most-populous county if it switches to a paper ballot system that does not...

Ever since the Clinton Health Care Plan went down in flames and the Gingrich Revolution rocked the nation, progressive Democrats have been on defense and operating on the margins of American political discourse. That’s a...

Markets are all over the place this week.  The rate cut hasn’t worked to restore solvency, and because of that it hasn’t restored confidence. The markets are pushing higher today because of the widely accepted...