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when obama is nominated, hillary goes on to what?

by Tom Carey | Moderate | Comments (2)

Despite Hillary Clinton’s belief that she has a real chance to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, most watchers of politics still hold that Obama is the frontrunner and it’s only a matter of time before Candidate Barack Obama becomes Nominee Barack Obama. Of course, after Pennsylvania the quest for the nomination goes on […]

biofuels fuel starvation

by Steven Doss | Democrat | Comments (1)

In Haiti, thousands of people flooded into the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. Why were they doing this? Was it to protest oppressive social policy? Was it to support Tibetan freedom? Was it just “something to do” in one of the poorest countries in the world?
No. It was for rice.
Food prices have risen 43 percent in […]

settle down, democrats

by Ari Holtz | Moderate | Comments (0)

Conventional wisdom says that Democrats are in trouble. Pennsylvania did nothing for them. It didn’t get Sen. Hillary Clinton out of the race, nor did it give her a victory large enough to make any serious gains on Sen. Barack Obama. The party faithful on Wednesday morning remained stuck where they were on Tuesday morning, […]

getting high on america

by Ryan Porter | Moderate | Comments (3)

My neighbor named Spider is always telling me that there is an appropriate drug for every occasion and that he can hook me up. I am not sure what that last part means, but he has his own chemistry set so I trust that he is a well-educated guy. He recommends marijuana if you want […]

the language of politics

by Mark Hunter Mulvey | Moderate | Comments (0)

Iran says U.S. shows ‘Iranophobia’ over Iraq.
- Reuters headline (April 20th 2008)
This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing.
- George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
“Iran accused U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of ‘Iranophobia’ on Sunday…” […]

wanted: a candidate who can close

by Tom Carey | Moderate | Comments (1)

It’s obvious that Clinton decisively won the crucial Pennsylvania primary and since then she has declared that “the tide is turning” in the overall battle for the Democratic nomination. While she still trails in all measures of significance (states won, popular vote, overall delegate count), the way Pennsylvania voted should raise new questions about Barack […]

showdown on the olympic playground

by Paige Cram | Democrat | Comments (0)

“A new day for Cuba will come… until that day comes, the United States will continue to shine a bright and revealing light on Cuba’s abuses. We will continue to tell the stories of Cuba’s people, even when a lot of the world doesn’t want to hear them. And we will carry this refrain in […]

let those people go

by Vincent Rooley | Libertarian | Comments (4)

On Saturday, April 5, law enforcement agents entered the grounds of the FLDS temple in El Dorado, Texas in search of an anonymous girl who was claiming sexual abuse at the hands of registered sex offender Dale Barlow. The fact that Dale Barlow was residing in Arizona under the watchful care of his parole officer […]

a prophet without honor

by Edward Savoy | Moderate | Comments (0)

There is an important point being missed in the furor over “Bittergate.” (Please, someone come up with a better way of naming political scandals other than by the suffix “-gate.” It’s had a good run, but it’s been 36 years now.) It seems every angle of Senator Obama’s remarks about voters, particularly those in Pennsylvania, […]

rice had better have an ace in the hole

by Carl Fitch | Libertarian | Comments (1)

On Sunday, Condoleezza Rice took an unprecedented shot at the leader of the Mahdi Army, Muqtada Sadr, with the following line:
“He is still living in Iran,” she said. “I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him.”
And then of course there was this doozie:
“His followers can go to their death and he will still be […]