At last someone who has noticed the same thing I’ve been saying for months to my family…
Op-Ed Columnist - Frank Rich - One Historic Night, Two Americas - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Given the dividing line separating the two Americas of 2008, a ticket uniting Mr. McCain and Hillary Clinton might actually be a better fit than [...]

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Obama’s In Control: No More Lobbyist Contributions To Democratic Party - Politics on The Huffington Post
“The DNC and the Obama Campaign are unified and working together to elect Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Our presumptive nominee has pledged not to take donations from Washington lobbyists and from today going forward [...]

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Tis a hell of a note when the temperature that greets you upon walking out of the house at 6am feels like 85°. Not a good sign for early June. And so starts my day.
I see this unseasonable warmth has moved all the way to the Blue Ridge Mountains I love. I recall our first [...]

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Clinton’s Count Doesn’t Add Up - washingtonpost.com
You have to admire Hillary Clinton for her ability to reshape reality to her preferred outcome. She seems to assume that if she says something loudly enough, and repeats it often enough, it will become true. Her victory speech in Puerto Rico was a minor masterpiece in carefully parsed [...]

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Way back when, in the final season of the West Wing there was an episode with the title “The Presidential Voice”. The premise was that Congressman Santos didn’t have the “Presidential Voice” and they were trying to teach it to him. Long story short…You don’t teach the “Presidential Voice”, it is something you either have [...]

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I spend most of my time these days trying to ignore the insane direction that George W Bush and his enablers have taken this country for the past six years. Then the White House comes up with a strategy to push one of their failed agendas that screams out for the white coats. Eugene Robinson [...]

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