Month: March 2008

With Mississippi likely to vote for Barack Obama for president today, we should all remember how far we’ve come since the bad old days. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation. 86% of all...

William Fallon, the commander responsible for the Middle East region, announced his resignation. He had recently been profiled by Esquire as an independent voice in the military and notably told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...

Anyone else thrown off by Daylight Savings Time?

“If there’s someone you can live without, then do so. And if there’s someone you can just shove out; do so.” Hillary Clinton is hell bent on breaking the Democratic Party and all she will get out of it is...

I was born in 1969. I don’t remember the 1972 race, but I do remember my older brother’s faded McGovern-Shriver t-shirt that he proudly wore until it fell apart. When I was in the second grade I cast my first vote...