It appears to be commonplace in other countries that voters are marked somehow as having voted. The image the past few days has been of Iraqi voters with their ink-stained fingers. It appears to me as though we should undertake similar measures here in the United States. Marking a voter isn't a cure-all for solving […]
Today is the day Iraqis go to the polls to participate in free elections for the first time in decades. It's still early in Iraq, but it appears as though the terrorists' promise to fill the streets with blood has been largely empty. Check out Steven Vincent's "In the Red Zone" blog for some thoughts […]
Evan Coyne Maloney has a new video up from the protests at last week's presidential inauguration. One thing the leftists in the video -- and those that think like them -- might want to consider before they start advocating armed revolution: remember who's got all of the guns.
First, there's this story from the New York Daily News on congressman and mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner. This is one of the main reasons I will likely never run for public office. Anthony Weiner got a public reminder yesterday that "Mother knows best." As the Democratic mayoral hopeful blasted Mayor Bloomberg's educational policies yesterday, he […]
...that some quasi-religious nuts were collecting fingernail clippings because they believe that hangnails have souls and giving them a religious burial. Would this outrage you? Would you go running to the press complaining about the cult of the cuticle being insensitive to your feelings? You wouldn't. You'd just laugh it off. If those wackos want […]
At last week's confirmation hearings for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, Sen. Joseph Biden (Plagiarist-Del.) suggested that Rice needed a little reality check when it came to the number of Iraqi troops we have trained. Rice puts the total number -- including police officers, border patrol, regular army -- at more than 100,000. Biden countered […]
I keep going to PoynterOnline's MediaNews feature hoping to see some sort of serious discussion of CBS's fradulent memos story. It hasn't happened -- and probably will never happen. Why? I think the two big questions that the independent report left unanswered -- the authenticity of the documents and whether political bias was the reason […]
I have a suggestion for the Democrats in the Senate. If you want to make a little noise by delaying the vote on the first African-American woman to be nominated for Secretary of State, it might be a good idea to choose someone who isn't a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to put […]
From a Reuters report on President Bush's second term: The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good. Many world leaders, alienated by Bush's go-it-alone foreign policy and the U.S.-led […]
The New York Times editorial board takes a final look back at the 2004 election and decides that a 4,000 vote screw-up in North Carolina's race for agriculture commissioner is an open-and-shut case against electronic voting machines. Let's not excuse the monumental screw-up in North Carolina, but the only thing more shocking than how little […]