As you read this, 2007 is an innocent little year (well, almost if you scroll down Google). Like most infants, it absorbs its environment: the words used, the events it sees, the way people treat it…the very tone. It may be naive to say this, but even with powder-keg issues in politics, passionate issues that people want to write about on weblogs…in the interest of this little child, who is right...

The Washington Times featured an interesting post election analysis that showed that Republican Senators gave far less money to struggling candidates than did Democrats. I believe that this is relatively true in the House races as well. It was not that they soberly calculated that they were going to lose in a landslide and decided not to throw good money after bad. They just threw their candidates, who were...

One of the “givens” of the non-ending Presidential campaigns, is the early annointing of a media “front-runner” who has the money OR the name power OR the organization OR the charisma. So look at Hillary Clinton. Oh, well: three out of four ain’t bad… Times Online has a piece that utters the seemingly unutterable in some quarters: Hillary is often charisma-challenged, which...

Dahlia Litwick looks back at 2006 for Slate and compiles a "the 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006"-list. The numbers 3 -1: 3. Abuse of Jose Padilla First, he was, according to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, "exploring a plan to build and explode a radiological dispersion device, or ‘dirty bomb,’ in the United States." Then, he was planning to blow up...