Author: Nonpartisan

[Cross-posted at Folkbum and Daily Kos.] You heard me.  All those guys whose names are on the Declaration of Independence — not one of them had ever fought in a war.  John Adams?  A lawyer.  Thomas...

[Cross-posted at Folkbum and Daily Kos.] Uber-conservative columnist Morton Kondracke, who apparently is a Democrat despite thinking the Republican Party is “not conservative enough,” recently penned this editorial...

[Cross-posted at Folkbum and Daily Kos.] Like many movements, this one started with a book. Certainly, there was the earlier proto-environmental movement involving John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and protector of...

[Cross-posted at Daily Kos.] Perusing my local paper this morning, I happened upon this story.  Seems local moderate Christians have decided to follow John Danforth’s example and speak out against their fundamentalist...

The title of this diary comes, as many of us know, from a beautiful Bible verse.  It also happens to be the title of President Gerald Ford’s memoir.  Now out of print, the book tells the story of a mediocre...