If we play our cards right, some deeply embedded and highly destructive ideology may collapse just as hard as an overleveraged investment bank. And the fact that this possibility is occurring a mere few weeks before an historical election...well, all I'm saying is that we may be looking at a valuable silver lining to the storm clouds hovering overhead. So what is ideology anyway, and what's so bad about it?
"Mouthwash!" might be a reaction to the hand-wringing over this "nasty" campaign season -- but check out Foreign Policy and the New Yorker. We don't know dirty.
McCain once said he respected Colin Powell more than any man in the world. Powell's public endorsement is a huge validation of Obama and a tremendous repudiation of McCain.
Palin failed to achieve the dramatic justice of confronting Tina Fey's fractured version of herself. Such an interaction was the only plot option that could have dignified Palin's appearance on the show.
Hank Paulson went the bank welfare route. Joe the Plumber and everyone else should be very upset about this method spreading around the wealth.
Listening to Colin Powell endorse Barack Obama, I had the same divided feelings I did last spring, when I heard him speak at my daughter's high school graduation.
We must assume that Phil Gramm, Randy Scheunemann, Charlie Black, Rick Davis and Nancy Pfotenhauer would figure prominently in a McCain-Palin administration.
I may have been an appointee in the George H.W. Bush administration, and master of ceremonies for George W. Bush in 2004, but last Saturday I stood amid the crowd at an Obama event in North Philadelphia.
I believe that the majority of independent swing voters who are on the fence about whether to vote for McCain or Obama will ultimately choose Barack in the voting booth because of Sarah Palin.
Now the war barely merits an above the fold headline. When we should be having a great national debate, we're bogged down in lip-sticked pigs, one group crying terrorist at every corner and a shadowy group of election 'officials' poised to steal yet another election.
The Framers did not ask people to rise above self-interest but instead expected them to pursue it. Pitting interest against interest, as Madison put it, is a way of ensuring liberty.
When I met her in San Francisco, I thought Sarah Palin was a very sophisticated, elegant and articulate politician.
Without Tina Fey, this was Saturday Night Dead and there was nothing worth seeing but more nails being indirectly pounded into the GOP coffin.
