Not to diminish the reasons and motivations behind the actual celebration of Memorial Day, a worthy day of remembrance and celebration of the service of our nation’s veterans, that more people perhaps ought to consider (particularly, you know, people in power right now, and those seeking power), but I’d honestly rather just put this particular […]

You know the Democratic primary season has been wearing on too long when not one, but two “respectable” media outlets have likened Hillary Clinton’s campaign to a Monty Python skit. Oh, and PythOnline had something as well, so five three instances. At least. I suspect there are probably more. But none of them repeat the […]

Much ado has been made recently about the “gas tax holiday” idea being thrown around by Senators Clinton and McCain as a means of providing relief from high gas prices this summer. According to these two presidential candidates (and pretty much no one else), suspending the 18-point-something cents per gallon federal tax for a three […]

…this makes me sad. To illustrate a comment made by Senator Clinton the other day, this is the graphic below that Fox News created to reference the Lincoln-Douglas debates: The worst part of this is that while the graphic itself was probably ‘shopped up at the last minute by an intern, none of the producers, […]

This Op-Ed piece in today’s New York Times is pretty much right on the money. And, it’s just one more reason why Elizabeth Edwards is completely awesome. __________________ Oh, and Scalzi managed to post another perfect example of cat blogging.

♦ The race rolls on…the small net gain Clinton picked up yesterday will almost surely be cancelled out come May 6. It continues to be essentially a 51-49 split within the party. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as the vast majority of Democrats (and consistently, Democratic primary turnout has been twice that of the […]

VOTE! It’s your day today…who’d have thought primary season would ever have gotten to the point where the Keystone State mattered, huh? Well, you matter now, after weeks and weeks of the whole country staring at you. I’d encourage you registered Democrats to vote for Obama, as I already articulated here. However, more so that […]

You know what the neatest personal thing so far about the democratic presidential primary season carrying on so long this year is? Hearing an extended piece about Lancaster County PA, it’s people, and their politics on Morning Edition while driving into work today. The story also included an interview with Terry Madonna, my old political […]

Yeah, I think you ought to read it. I’m not going to gush like Chris Matthews last night (I’d feel safe making a bet that he wet his pants during Hardball), but I think Senator Obama managed to do a good job of hitting on the core elements of the race issue in America, highlighting […]

I’ve always liked Hillary Clinton. I’ve defended her honor in conversation many times in the face of unreasonable criticism. She’s always struck me as seriously smart, and able to somehow overcome all the crap that’s slung at her and still manage to be an effective public servant. Sure, she’s ambitious and triangulating (especially when it […]