2008 Election

It's not necessarily the last authoritative word, but Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose job includes running the immigration services, said today that Sen. John McCain's birth in the Panama Canal zone does qualify him to be president. "My assumption and understanding is that if you are born of...

Merriam-Webster gives the following definitions for the word "whore":

1: a woman who engages in sexual acts for money : prostitute; also : a promiscuous or immoral woman
2: a male who engages in sexual acts for money
3: a venal or unscrupulous person

Ladies and Gentlemen,...

While the price of oil is throwing the country into an economic tailspin, do any of our presidential candidates have any type of environmentally sound policy that would free us from the grasp of the Middle East, while at the same time helping eliminate global warming and keeping the planet...

Democracy Corps has a great new poll out on national security and the 2008 election cycle (Also look at the slides [pdf]). I think the overall conclusion is: Democrats should address national security head on because they can beat Republicans on this issue.

There has been a pretty intensive...

As anyone who works in politics knows, this is a non-stop business. One thing I've learned, though, is sometimes you've got to take a second to step back -- if only to assess your current position and future opportunities. Right now is one of those moments for us at the...

The Clinton campaign has been nothing if not defiantly hip, with a constant stream of cutting-edge, up-to-the-second pop culture references. Here's a sampling from the campaign trail:

"That's not change you can believe in, that's change you can Xerox."
-- Hillary Clinton referencing Barack Obama's alleged plagiarism...

At a campaign stop in Philadelphia, PA, Hillary Clinton furthered her identification with Rocky, recalling how she once stepped into the ring against Muhammed Ali.

Clinton said that she was sent to fight Ali when no one else would. "They used to say in the White House, if the...

Kuttappan, an illiterate black pepper farmer, who in recent years has contemplated suicide twice and attempted it once -- he failed when his wife spotted him in time and cut the rope from his neck -- asked me a few weeks ago when I was in my village in India,...

When an outhouse-supply rag like The National Enquirer trumpets a headline like "The Most Shocking Story You Will Ever Read!", as it does in its current issue, its 7-11 readers have every right to expect something truly juicy -- hard-core proof that Elvis' ghost impregnated Katie Couric during a...

There's lots of agonizing going on about what happens to the superdelegates. Should they wait until the Democratic convention to cast their votes or should they meet earlier in some kind of confab to get this thing over with earlier? This is leaving aside the question of how to seat...

Hillary Clinton said yesterday in Philadelphia, "When it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit."

She's a lot like Rocky, all right, but less the original masterpiece and more the desperate fourth sequel, Rocky V. By the fifth film the increasingly...

The twentieth century is often times referred to as the "Great American Century" -- the period of time when America was the world leader on a number of fronts. During this century, the world looked to America as the international problem solver and as the leader in the global economy....

The Clinton campaign's only remaining argument for her superior "electability" rests on the contention that her ability to win primaries in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania makes her more "electable" in the general election.

There are many reasons why this argument is fallacious, including the fact that, in the...

Looking over the coverage of Hillary Clinton's pitch this week, I can't help but think she's off message. Today in Philadelphia, for example, Clinton is emphasizing the need to keep the presidential campaign going.

In excerpt of a speech she's set to give to the AFL-CIO in the City...