A recent article on bloomberg.com reports that the bailout of the financial sector will be over 7.7 trillion dollars. That's $55,000 for every US taxpayer. Since, as conservatives like to remind us, the taxpayer knows better how to use money than the government, if we want a truly effective...

Obama wins Third Manassas,
takes Virginia;
Pennsylvania key--
McCain's concession
From the Goldwater Room
echoes Lee
On the third day
at Gettysburg: "My fault."
And who but Obama
could quote
Lincoln
and pull it off?

Wounds.
Overcome.

This morning I awoke before dawn. I had been dreaming politics. The sky was pink and red in the east, and an owl was hooting -- a great horned, but young, with a high pitched voice. I had been dreaming politics -- action committees, meetings, proposals. I too have succumbed...