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From Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech Tuesday: It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few and for the few, time to reject the idea of an "on your own" society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. I prefer a "we're all in it […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi honored the sacrifice of American men and women who have given their last full measure of devotion by going to Greenland and Germany. Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat unfamiliar with glaciers, has determined that global warming is real. The California Democrat pointed to her delegation's weekend stop in Greenland, "where we […]

I think I feel sorry for Carla Rivera and Andrew Blankstein. Blankstein and Rivera wrote this story in the Los Angeles Times last week. Why do I feel sorry for Blankstein and Rivera? Because it so ably demonstrates the talent they have in the stable there at the Times that they were able to take […]

Some cowardly jerks in Orcas Island, Wash., probably inspired by that hateful right-wing talk radio, torched flags decorating the graves of our nation's veterans and replaced them with hand-drawn swastikas.

Today's Wall Street Journal features an editorial on last week's belated funding for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want to pick out two paragraphs to share. First, on the Democrats: Hamilton and Madison knew what they were doing when they gave the bulk of the war powers to the President, and it's hard […]

Let me start with a hypothetical. Let's say that immediately after the San Diego Union-Tribune article revealing that Rep. Randy "Dirty Duke" Cunningham had made several hundred thousand dollars by selling his home to a defense contractor above market value -- and that contractor subsequently sold the home at a big loss -- that the […]

I've already told you I don't watch much in the way of network TV. This past week the two network shows I do watch, "Veronica Mars" and "Heroes," came to an end. If you watch either of these shows and haven't seen the final episodes yet on your TiVo, then skip the rest of this […]

President Bush has signed the emergency supplemental bill funding the war in Iraq with no deadlines or limits on the use of military force, just a bit of pork and a minimum wage hike. Finally. The votes in the House (280-142) and Senate (80-14) have to be a little disconcerting for the retreat now coalition. […]

Documents found in an Al Qaeda safe house illustrate what torture really is, for those who are confused (e.g. Andrew Sulliivan, Amnesty International). Warning, the pictures are disturbing. A Fox News report yesterday suggested that the reason for the pictures and not simply written instructions may be twofold: First, the Al Qaeda recruits may be […]

It appears some Texas students are angry that the local school board isn't allowing them to walk at graduation because they failed the state's TAKS test. The goal of the test is to make sure the kids have some basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic. The students validated the school board's decision when one […]