Reading articles in most of the major daily newspapers will rarely, if ever, give you an indication of partisan bias. Reporters, now more than ever, are sensitive to accusations about “taking sides” and most go out of their way to play it straight. I would argue that sometimes they play it too straight, but that’s […]
I’ve intentionally avoided writing about the California recall election for several reasons. Perhaps most importantly, even I, a political junkie if there ever was one, find the ordeal too stupid to get worked up over. The whole thing gives circuses a bad name. So as the most of the civilized world knows by now, Arnold […]
Surprisingly and fortunately, trash-TV host Jerry Springer announced today that he will not run for the U.S. Senate. For months, Springer has been mulling over a challenge to incumbent Sen. George Voinovich (R) and leading many to believe he would announce his candidacy soon. Today, however, Springer ended the suspense and said he would not […]
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative has been controversial for years. The program, created by Watergate-felon Chuck Colson, aims to convert incarcerated felons to fundamentalist Christianity and, in the process, make them less likely to commit crimes again in the future. George W. Bush, as Texas’ governor, praised the program and welcomed them into the state’s criminal […]
The redistricting scheme Tom DeLay has tried to force through the Texas Legislature is still stalled in the state Senate because 11 brave Senate Dems are still denying the chamber the quorum needed to approve the effort. They’re still in New Mexico and nothing much has happened since I last wrote about this. Some of […]
Bob Graham’s resume is second to none. Successful two-term governor, admired three-term senator, expertise on national security issues, and most importantly, popularity in the nation’s most important electoral state — Florida. In fact, Graham reminds Dem voters about his home state at every opportunity. “Florida is America’s largest swing state,” Graham says in his stump […]
A week ago, I mentioned a report in The Hill speculating that Al Gore was considering entering the race for the Dem presidential nomination after having ruled it out last December. The widely-circulated article elicited a fresh round of denials from Gore and his confidants. A Gore spokeswoman said last week, “Truly, honestly, he’s not […]
When we last heard from Roy Moore, the theocratic chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, he was suggesting that he may or may not follow federal court orders regarding the removal of his unconstitutional Ten Commandments display in the state judicial building. Moore had, as he put it, “discretionary power.” This week, Moore picked up […]
I should know better than to read the always-conservative Weekly Standard on a regular basis, but despite what the publication does to my blood pressure, it pays to understand what the other side is thinking. Hugh Hewitt, a conservative talk show host, has a Weekly Standard column out today on the argument that Senate Dems […]
Howard Dean was on Larry King last night talking about a number of different issues, but Michael Crowley at The New Republic noticed that Dean’s answers about gay marriage weren’t quite up to the good doctor’s self-described “straight talk” standards. To be sure, Dean has done a great deal on gay rights. As Vermont’s governor, […]