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By Andrew Sullivan (from the Daily Dish)
He has clearly realized that becoming an older, smarter version of Bush is not going to win over any of the independents who once loved him. And so he is again saying what he believes. From Fox News Sunday today:
MCCAIN: A man I admire more than anyone else, General [...]

By Gerard Baker (from the Times Online)
Last night in Orangeburg, South Carolina, eight Democrats running for president – to varying degrees of plausibility – gathered for their first debate of the election campaign. We are still a very long way from the first primary votes next January, and most Americans are still [...]

By Tom Curry (msNBC)
Will the 2008 Democratic presidential contest resemble the one eight years ago when Al Gore and Bill Bradley had to magnify relatively minor differences between them in order to generate some heat?
Or will it look like the spectacular contest in 1968, a grand referendum on the future of the Democratic Party?
Thursday night’s [...]

By David Corn (from The Nation)
Karl Rove is under investigation by the executive branch. So, too, is his investigator.
On Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Office of Special Counsel, an obscure federal investigative and prosecutorial agency that is supposed to protect federal employees from prohibited personnel practices, is
preparing to jump into one of [...]

Two prolific writers in the span of two weeks… we lost Vonnegut and now Halberstam in a fatal car crash.

My brush with greatness is that I once rode in an elevator with David Halberstam, but didn’t realize it was him until he told me to “have a nice day” as he was exiting (what [...]

By Matthew Naugle (from Right Angle Blog)
After just spending an hour listening to an excruciating lame podcast full of anti-corporate ramblings from the libs on Meet the Bloggers regarding SB 117, I’m now curious to find out: Is this legislation really so awful?

If you’re not aware of SB 117, it is legislation which would apparently [...]

By Megan McArdle (moonlighting at The Daily Dish)
The alleged logic of overturning Roe v. Wade is, for many libertarians, that it will throw the issue back to the states. There, states will rapidly use the legislative process to come to a compromise that makes the majority of people within their borders roughly happy, and [...]

By Greg Giroux (from CQPolitics.com)
Once upon a time — actually just a few years ago — raising nearly $9 million in the first quarter of a presidential election cycle would have brought rave reviews for a White House hopeful from the political punditocracy.But that is hardly the case for Connecticut Democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, [...]

By Nikki Giovanni (from the 4/17/2007 convocation at Virginia Tech)
We are Virginia Tech.
We are sad today and we will be sad for quite a while.
We are not moving on,
we are embracing our mourning.
We are Virginia Tech.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly,
we are brave enough to bend to cry
and sad enough to know we [...]

I sat at the keyboard yesterday, last night and this morning trying to think of something to say that could put my feelings into perspective about the terrible events that transpired yesterday at Virginia Tech… and my only comment was silence.
I cannot honor those who fell yesterday at the hands of someone so deeply disturbed [...]