During last month's special election for mayor of San Diego, a group of people arrived in horse-drawn carriages and posted themselves outside 11 precincts. When people emerged from the polls they asked them how they had voted and marked down the answers using a charred stick and papyrus. After spending several days tabulating their results […]
Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta came to Los Angeles today and announced -- as is typical -- that the law will change on the next president's watch so this one won't have to deal with it. A plan requiring automakers to boost fuel economy standards for some sport utility vehicles, minivans and pickup trucks could eventually […]
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. […]