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If there was any doubt that the National Organization for Women no longer represents any significant number of women, then this clinches it. Today, Women's Equality Day, the National Organization for Women's Political Action Committee is proud to announce our endorsement of former Ambassador and Senator Carol Moseley Braun for President of the United States. […]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman demonstrates this fact yet again. In short, Krugman believes that California's economy is bad -- and it's Bush's fault. Then Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger concurs. Krugman says to himself: "I can't be agreeing with a Republican." Then Krugman comes out with a column saying California's economy is doing great. […]

A picture is worth a thousand words, or, at least in this case, is like the muse, inspiring a thousand words. (It's a figure of speech -- I didn't count).

An editorial in today's Wall Street Journal on the Ten Commandments debate includes this note on the federal judicial nomination process and the ideology/religion litmus test being imposed by the Senate Democrats. Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, one of the few state officials providing some adult supervision on the matter, is unpersuaded. "The rule of […]

It's issues like this that bring out the nuts on both sides of the political/religious spectrum. First off, Judge Roy Moore's installation of the monument and his subsequent press conferences have been nothing more than political grandstanding. His installation of the monument is not about the Ten Commandments as much as it is about his […]

Today's example of the silliness of some letter writers comes to us from Ralph Porter of Portland, Ore., regarding the murder of defrocked priest and convicted child molester John Goeghan. Regardless of the crime committed, isn't putting someone into an environment in which he can be strangled to death cruel and unusual punishment? One wonders […]

Thanks to a combination of profligate spending in the late 90s, the tech bubble and the refusal of California legislators to say "no" to the voters who continually want somehting for nothing, Californis is facing an economic crisis. The focus of voters' ire is, of course, Gov. Gray Davis, but people are beginning to raise […]

Or at least his polling company. I just spent about 15 minutes on the phone with a polling company asking my opinion on the California recall and the possible candidates to replace Gov. Gray Davis. This is the second time in about nine months that I've gotten polled. The last time was about a rather […]

The Treasury Dept. announces that they're freezing the funds of five groups believed to support the terrorist group Hamas and the funds of six "top Hamas leaders." Why did we wait until after the latest bus bombing before doing this?

During the past few years one of the "hot" topics of discussion in the African-American community has been the possibility of the federal government paying reparations to the descendants of slaves. It is, of course, ridiculous to demand payment from people who never owned slaves to people who were never slaves themselves. But this creative […]