For the record, my position on campaign financing is that candidates should be able to take unlimited amounts of money from American citizens (no donations from foreign entities) with the requirement that the name and amount of the donation must be disclosed online on the campaign's Web site within 48 hours of receipt. Having said […]
Ross Douthat had an excellent skewering of law professor and alleged pro-lifer Douglas Kmiec. What I don't understand at all is Kmiec's position, which seems to be that the contemporary Democratic Party, and particularly the candidacy of Barack Obama, offered nearly as much to pro-lifers as the Republican Party does. I am sure that Kmiec […]
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is beginning to eye executive orders that can be overturned and rescinded by Obama's administration. First up are overturning prohibitions on drilling for oil here in the United States and government funding for the creation of human embryos for the purpose of destroying them. Don't be surprised when, as the […]
The latest update on the dynamically-updated sea ice extent graph shows some good news for those poor polar bears. The chart only goes back to 2002, because that's when the satellite that's doing the measuring was launched. But it now shows that there is more sea ice at this time of year than there has […]
Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has completed her analysis of her paper's campaign coverage and the numbers aren't good for those supporting the proposition that the media has been fair and balanced in its coverage of the 2008 presidential contest. The numbers: Stories about the candidates (since Nov. 11, 2007): Obama: 946 McCain: 786 After […]
Now that Barack Obama has been elected president, is it time for the mainstream media to get out of Obama's tank? Nope. Chris Matthews: Well, you know what. I want to do everything I can do to make this thing work, this new presidency work. Joe Scarborough: Is that your job? Matthews: Yeah, that […]
Sen. Robert Byrd will be stepping down as the head of the Senate Appropriations committee. The move came after the Senate agreed to rename the committee: "The Robert C. Byrd Committee for the Promotion of Pork." The committee becomes the 10,000th thing to be named after the senator from West Virginia. Others include: The Robert […]
I just got done watching President-elect Barack Obama's first press conference. A few interesting questions asked, not asked and not answered: CNN's Candy Crowley asked Obama whether anything he learned in the intelligence briefings he's received as president-elect gave him pause or caused him to reconsider positions he'd taken during the general election. Obama declined […]
We'll set aside politics for a moment to note that this is a truly momentous day. The American people, less than 50 years removed from Jim Crow, have elected a mixed race man President of the United States. Let us hope and pray that that fact is not the sum total of his achievements as […]