A fumble on the Farm Bill
May 22, 2008
Congress, Bush need a do-over after House GOP-ers join Dems in overriding veto of wrong version of the bill.
Cole: ‘I’m the luckiest guy’
May 22, 2008
After decades of toil for the Republican Party, Cole has become the GOP’s favorite whipping boy on the Hill.
Clinton evokes ghosts of Bush v. Gore
May 22, 2008
She warns that failure to count unsanctioned primaries would smack of the former presidential election.
Kennedy could be model for Clinton
May 22, 2008
In this essay, the writer makes the case that Kennedy’s new diagnosis may offer Clinton new political life.
Balking at using torture
May 22, 2008
At least one government agency, the FBI, felt the administration’s harsh treatment of detainees, which top Bush officials repeatedly tried to justify, was wrong.
A report by the Justice department’s inspector general, long delayed because of infighting between the department and the Pentagon over how much should be made public, praised FBI agents for refusing to join harsh and abusive interrogation techniques by the military and CIA in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. The agents described some of the techniques as “borderline torture.”
Grading McCain’s veep prospects
May 22, 2008
Politico offers an assessment of why they would and would not help the GOP ticket win in November.
Politics of race and gender
May 22, 2008
A victory in Oregon, yes, but a 35-point thrashing in Kentucky on Tuesday for presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Although both states are populated predominantly by white voters, together they prove white comes in many different shades.
McCain struggles on cusp of general election
May 22, 2008
After a promising debut as the Republican presidential nominee, the Arizona senator now must worry about intensity, cash and organization.
We’re not number one
May 22, 2008
Being a patriotic fellow, I am always saddened to learn that the good ol’ USA isn’t No. 1 in all fields.
That was my reaction last week when I read an Associated Press story from Edinburgh, Scotland, that said a collector had paid $12,840 for 35 original poems by a William Topaz McGonagall, “internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language.”
The appeasement smackdown
May 22, 2008
Did you see that smack-down by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews of Los Angeles conservative radio commentator Kevin James? Matthews’ question to James was simple.