Month: March 2008

Regular readers know that I long ago began arguing that it was the wrong approach to base your primary decision on policy grounds. That might be appropriate when your choices include Jimmy Carter and Scoop Jackson, but Obama and...

Is it the day after tomorrow yet? I was just browsing through some web sites and I ran into this in the UK guaridian.  I think it’s particularily troubling that the is all happening faster than predicted by scientists...

Bill Clinton on the state of the campaign for the Democratic nomination: ” . . . If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office. If a football player doesn’t want to get tackled or...

All politicians lie, right? That’s all they do. So this stunningly detailed tale of false heroism that happens to be false in every significant regard can’t possibly say anything negative about the character of...

I’ve believed for a long time that the Internet is going to transform the structure of society, like the television, telephone, and printing press did before it. Like its predecessors, it offers new ways to acquire and...