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Well, I've successfully cast my largely-meaningless, mostly-Republican ballot in this mostly-Democratic state. There were no real lines to report. No jack-booted thugs at the polls intimidating me. And no one who seemed to have any real problems. The woman in front of me in line was not on the registrar's list. The solution: she was […]

Evidence of this fact for the Democratic Party was last week's memorial pep rally for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone. Evidence of this fact for the GOP, locally at least, comes in the form of a door-hanger the San Diego County Republican Party was handing out last week. It's what you would expect from any […]

The Wall Street Journal has put a useful article up on its Web site that should prove useful in helping you keep track of what the election returns mean. Print it out and set it by the TV as you watch the returns roll in -- it will help a lot.

There's an excellent article in today's Wall Street Journal by Brendan Minter on a link between fighting terrorism and men of faith.

I've been searching for a condo here in San Diego and there isn't much out there for someone who works at a newspaper. A second income would certainly help, but I have yet to find a woman willing to tie the knot. Today's New York Times has an article on the affordable-housing crisis in the […]

I'm always curious to learn how people define being "human" in terms of the abortion debate. For me, it's pretty logical and pretty simple. I believe life starts at conception. At that point, you have a unique individual with a unique set of DNA. In today's Washington Post, columnist Michael Kinsley makes a disturbingly narrow […]

I addressed the pep rally earlier this week, in today's Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan does me about 25 million times better. Check it out.

Fox News was just running what the methods of execution are for the various states where the sniper suspects killed people. Maryland, where most of the victims were from, offers only lethal injection as an option. Virginia offers lethal injection or electrocution. Alabama offers only electrocution. Washington state offers lethal injection or hanging. I've got […]

National Review's Deroy Murdock gives you the rest of the story when it comes to which major political party profits from the labor of American workers. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and his ilk on the left crow about Halliburton, Harken Energy and shady dealings by prominent Republicans that have resulted in financial loss […]

That's what Yasser Arafat's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade discovered earlier this week. Apparently some intern in the Brigades' office was working hard, trying to make a good impression on his bosses. He thought, "I'll just try and get ahead on all these press releases I have to write taking credit for our suicide bombings." Then, when […]