Just a month after Arthur Finkelstein, a George Pataki confidant, complained that the Republican Party “has become the party of the Christian right more so than in any other period in modern history,” Pataki fired him and Kieran Mahoney, another top political aide. What’s Pataki up to? It depends on whom you ask. Kos wrote […]
Whenever I write about creationism, the level of email feedback seems to grow a bit. In fact, there’s always more interest in this than I expect. With this in mind, I thought I’d respond online to a few questions I received about the “intelligent-design” creationism lawsuit in Dover, Pa. First, one emailer suggested that it’s […]
No one knows yet who’ll fill Terry McAuliffe’s shoes at the DNC, but whoever it is, he or she is going to have deal with the party’s primary calendar. It won’t be fun. Michigan has making noises for years about moving its primary up to compete with Iowa and New Hampshire, while the District of […]
I don’t have anything to add to this; I just thought it was funny. The Rev. Al Sharpton in the latest issue of Esquire: “Once, I was going to meet John Kerry, and I called Bill Clinton for advice. He talked to me all the way from the airport to a restaurant and all the […]
After cloudy skies forced delays in previous tests, Defense Department officials were able to give their missile defense technology another shot, so to speak. Unfortunately for everyone, it didn’t go well. An interceptor missile failed to launch early Wednesday in what was to have been the first full flight test of the U.S. national missile […]
Quick quiz. Who said this: “Even if God created the world and man was made in His image, the ACLU prefers that children are told only one theory: that we are descendants of the chimp at the local zoo.” Was it a) William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes trial in 1925; or b) Gary Bauer […]
All the talk has been that Joe Lieberman was a key candidate for a Bush administration slot, talk that Lieberman didn’t necessarily discourage. Now, however, it appears that there have been overtures from the White House, but Lieberman is staying where he is. Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman has twice in recent days said “no” when […]
I guess it’s safe to say Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, Dan Quayle’s former right-hand man, and an elite GOP insider, has been dropped from Donald Rumsfeld’s Christmas-card list. From a scathing op-ed in today’s Washington Post: [W]e have a pretty terrific Army. It’s performed a lot better in this war than […]
Well, at least it’s a perfect match. Sen. Zell Miller, the fire-and-brimstone-preaching Dixiecrat who tried to challenge MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to a duel after delivering the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, has been welcomed with open arms by Fox News Channel. The cable network announced yesterday it has signed the departing Georgia Democrat […]
Because “intelligent-design” creationism is an issue near and dear to my heart, I’m pleased to announce that the issue is finally going to court. While political controversies have been fought repeatedly among local school board members and state education officials in recent years, ID’s role in science curricula has never led to a lawsuit. That […]