Month: October 2008

This will be the most interesting week of the election as far as I’m concerned. It is the week that the candidates have to sum up all the issues and charges they have raised for months in order to firm up the support they...

I get so frustrated when I hear even Claire McCaskill afraid to confront the phrase “redistribution of wealth” head on. Look. The poor spend a much greater perecentage of their disposable income on taxes than the...

I guess all those high school shooters have graduated: CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — A shooting in the heart of the University of Central Arkansas’ campus killed two students and wounded a third person, authorities said early...

By California Mormon With Permission I am a lifelong Mormon, a native Californian, and a descendant of Mormon pioneers. Like many other Mormons, I am anguished by my Church’s endorsement of Proposition 8, a ballot...

I agree with Mark McKinnon that the tendency to call political winners ‘geniuses’ and political losers ‘idiots’ is overblown and unfortunate. For example, I thought John Kerry ran a very strong campaign,...