Deep Thought

In my last post I asked whether Rick Renzi is going to resign. Since the FBI raided his family business and he was dropped from ROMP (Regain...

Hat tip to The politico via Arizona Congress Watch A week after FBI agents raided his family's business, Republican Rep. Rick Renzi of ...

Today we learned during testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, we learned just how far some in the Pentago...

It seems that now the Bush administration has a new plan for unifying Iraq: build a wall around Sunni neighborhoods , presumably at a cost o...

Yesterday Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee and was pushed hard by Republicans as well as Demo...

What would they do at Virginia Tech if they could go back to last week? What would they do, what should they do, and perhaps most importantl...

This has been a truly horrible day. Not only in Blacksburg, Virgnia, but in the whole of the U.S. It's been a horrible day in New York C...

So it turns out that Tyrannosaurs Rex was just A BIG CHICKEN . Who knew? Just think how many buckets of fried chicken it would have filled.

As if the current Imus flap were not bad enough, today Michael Savage (one of the ugliest mouths in talk radio) attempted to do him one bett...

Today the North Carolina Attorney General announced that the rape charges and all other charges against three members of the Duke LaCrosse t...

I've received several requests to post the letter I had published in the print edition of the USA Today last week since it is apparentl...

It's official. New York has moved its primary up to February 5 (the unofficial 'start date' of the open primary season, after Io...

Last night I was listening to some right wing jock go on about a theme that has become all too common, both in the media and in right wing b...

The latest entrant in the Presidential sweepstakes is Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO). Tancredo, if you don't know who he is, made headlines a ...

According to an article in today's New York Times , former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was briefed in 2000 about Bernard Kerik's ti...

Attacks against the homeless, just on a lark and for no reason at all, are nothing new (tragically), and I've discussed them before. But...

Every now and then I post on a topic that I hope everyone will catch their partisan breath, step back for a moment and consider whether we s...

I've become convinced that a municipal holiday is a good thing for a town. I've lived in towns that didn't have one, and it was ...

Conservatives should be happy. Their fiscal solutions help create more social problems, which later create more budgetary problems they can ...

It is out now, officially. The departure of Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton is a direct result of the concerns about the Renzi investiga...