The New York Times' Paul Krugman has been reliving what might have been. It's 2005, and Krugman is still sore about the 2000 presidential election. I'll be the first to acknowledge that more Floridians went to the polls in 2000 intending to vote for Al Gore. The problem is ... how do I put this […]
The National Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund today attacked Supreme Court nominee John Roberts for his comments on a memo when he worked for the White House counsel's office during the Reagan Administration. The memo, which addressed an upcoming American Bar Association scuba diving trip, contained the suggestion that if the scuba […]
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd takes up the plight of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq last year. If you've been napping for the past few days, let me bring you up to speed. Ms. Sheehan (whom I truly feel sorry for, both because she has […]
Several years ago I was watching a debate on C-SPAN between Alan Keyes and Alan Dershowitz over the role of religion in public life. A major point of contention was what it meant to be able to "practice" your religion. Dershowitz's preferred definition appeared to allow you to do whatever your religion required as a […]
Sunday's "Meet the Press" featured a conversation between law professor Douglas Kmiec and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat. The subject was Catholics and the Supreme Court and whether a devout Catholic can actually be allowed to serve on the Court. If you didn't see the show, then you should definitely read the […]
National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru points to this Q&A in the New York Times Magazine with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Q: Do you think Americans are lazy? A: Without a doubt. We're the victims of our own successes and prosperity, which have caused us to change our lifestyles from being people who had to hunt for […]
There's plenty of whining about President Bush's "vacation" at his Texas ranch -- according to Fox News' Chris Wallace it will be 33 days long. I confess, it's far more vacation time than I get -- or most other Americans get. Of course, when I go on vacation, I'm not designing pages for the Union-Tribune. […]
Sixty years ago this weekend, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. I must confess that I've little sympathy for the ignorant peace protesters who come out every year to demand unilateral nuclear disarmament. Sixty years after the fact, too many just don't get it, and the ones that do -- […]
If the rules allowed it, SoundPolitics.com's Stefan Sharkansky would receive the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Sharkansky is no Hemingway, but he alone has done more to expose the disaster that is the King County (Washington) elections department than the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times combined. In addition to doing extensive research on voterless ballots, […]