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A Republican president with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress could not bring the leader of the terrorist group that killed Americans to justice in the five years they were in charge. Why do we accept the idea that a new Republican president with a Democratic house and senate would make us safer?

FactCheck.org has analyzed some of the statements and imagery used in John McCain’s campaign speeches and website and television advertisments.  The ad with the Windmills that is mentioned is playing in heavy rotation here in Eastern Pennsylvania.
I wonder if that inclusion has anything to do with the fact that Gamesa Corp. is creating jobs and [...]

The big loser in last night’s Clinton/Obama debate, at least in the eyes of media critics, was ABC News.
Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, gives a thorough and fair critique of what ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did wrong. Ignoring the aspects that were outside the moderator’s control such as timing and number [...]

On April 7th, James Surowiecki wrote his the New Yorker article Going for Broke:
In recent months, a lot of people have been handed financial get-out-of-jail-free cards. C.E.O.s who presided over billions in losses have walked away with tens of millions in compensation. The Federal Reserve has showered cheap money on banks and brokerages. Even Bear [...]

I don’t post videos all that often, but this one made me smile when a co-worker sent me the link.

Gay For Obama Video

Over in the forums at Patchwork Nation on the Christian Science Monitor website there has been a short discussion on the topic of “Election to be decided by political center”. I stated writing a reply to the initial post last night but after a couple sentences I decided I needed to think about it [...]

The Christian Science Monitor has a new project called Patchwork Nation on their website. 

About the Patchwork Nation project
Nearly 305 million people live in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. Yet in recent elections it’s all been about fitting into two categories: red states that vote Republican and blue states that vote Democratic. [...]

This week has been busy and I haven’t had as much time to write as I had hoped, but I do have time for one more post on the "Biggest Obstacles to Electing the Right President" project.
Earlier this week I wrote about how political news is produced and consumed more like entertainment coverage and gossip [...]

My post today was part of a bigger project involving at least two other bloggers who wanted to take this opportunity, one year out from the general election, to point out the obstacles we see in the way of electing a good candidate for US President. This will link you off to Alan of [...]

The 2008 Presidential election will be one year from this week. To commemorate this, Tiffany and Alan have suggested blogging about the obstacles in the way of electing a good candidate for president. The suggested topic is exceptionally broad so I am going to narrow my focus down to the obstacles that individual [...]