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I mentioned last week that the outrageously close Washington gubernatorial race reinforced the need to ensure that our elections are not stolen through fraud. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund weighed in today with similar sentiments -- and that it may already be too late. That set off a legal fracas over the 929 people […]

When I first saw the report about the arrest of a North Carolina journalist who'd called a source and left three messages requesting a comment I thought the justice system in the state had gone completely nuts. The woman, instead of just calling back and telling the reporter she had nothing to say, instead went […]

One of the biggest news stories in San Diego County when I was in high school was the murder of 20-year-old Cara Knott whose body was found off the I-15 Mercy Road offramp. Cara's uncle taught German at Helix High School, where I went to school, was a member of my church and knew my […]

A South Korean woman is walking for the first time in 20 years thanks to an injection of stem cells -- from umbilical cord blood. Once again, another success and no embryos were destroyed in the making. Why is the state of California spending $10 billion on embryonic stem cell research? Because only taxpayer money […]

Eleanor Clift supports former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's bid to head the Democratic National Committee. Clift claims that Dean is really a "centrist" a la former President Bill Clinton. If Dean is a centrist, then the Democrat Party is further left than even I thought it was. (OK, that's a lie -- I always knew […]

Or "Don't know much about history." I was briefly listening to what I hope was a replay of the Alan Colmes radio show (I mean, they gave the guy Thanksgiving off, right?) earlier this evening when I quickly discovered that the night's subject of debate was whether or not the founding fathers believed in God. […]

The nearly-final results are in for the race for Washington governor, and Republican Dino Rossi came out ahead -- by a mere 42 votes. More than 2.7 million votes were cast in the race. This will provide ample evidence to Washington State civics teachers as they encourage high school seniors how important it is to […]

The next time you hear MSNBC host Chris Matthews talk about his concern for the poor and how evil Republicans are always sticking it to the little guy, remember this: What with Natalie Jacobson, Pat O'Brien, Bob Arnott, Tim Russert, and The New York Times's COO Janet Robinson already on the island, Nantucket's become quite […]

... and don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. For those of you who skipped Tuesday, CBS News managing editor/anchorman Dan Rather has announced he will step down on March 9, 2005. Make no mistake, CBS made this announcement in order to give Rather an opportunity to have a […]

Salon's Eric Boehlert takes the occasion of the announcement of New York Times columnist William Safire's retirement to take him to task for decades of mistakes and inaccuracies. I'm not going to defend Safire, he's certainly made errors and not corrected them, but Boehlert's outrage is conspicuously constrained to Safire. The problem Boehlert describes is […]