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So Sarah Palin's summary of Paul Revere's famous ride is making the rounds. No doubt you've seen it:

She's challenging Barbara Boxer. I doubt there'll be much of a primary. You'd normally expect a hot primary in California, since the shambles of the state Republican party are so ideologically ...

Often you hear people complain that it's not worth voting, that because of the Electoral College, my vote won't make a difference. While it's true that your vote probably won't alter the way your ...

If you ask pretty much anybody if bumper stickers and lawn signs sway their opinions of a candidate, they'll probably say no. I would. And maybe that's accurate. At the very least, no one is ...

I'll preface this by saying that I'm very pleased that Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate, and that Biden had been one of my top preferences until he became my utterly top preference a ...

Time was when John Birch Society-type conservatives wanted to demonize the political left, they zeroed in on Berkeley, California—but that wild college town ...

We all heard Bush say that "an American senator" said he could have stopped Hitler from invading Poland, if only he'd been able to talk to him first. But Bush didn't name the guy, making it tough ...

I feel a little stiff, but refreshed. I took three Tylenol PMs instead of two. Better not do that again. Those things are strong. The first thing I did, before picking up a newspaper or ...

Okay, I'll pull no punches and I'll come right out and make it clear that I am not nor ever have been a Hillary Clinton supporter, fancier or even much of a tolerater of her. However, the TV told ...

You often hear people say that voters will go for a candidate whom they'd like to have a beer with for some reason, and that's the way they'll wind up voting. In 2004, slightly more voters seemed ...

Sure, all 42 of the people who have sat in the Oval Office have been men. And sure, this is the first time we've had a female in the running who might actually win a major party's nomination (...

Last month I drove from Boston to southern New Jersey to Cape Cod and back to Boston on an extended weekend. Along these mostly blue stretches of highway, I saw a number of bumper stickers that ...

Senator David Vitter of Louisiana just had a second madam, this time one in New Orleans, claim him as one of her clients. This madam, Jeanette Maier, went public not to humiliate Vitter but to rail ...

Yep, Time Magazine has made its case for the value of teaching the Bible in public schools. Their point is that ...

I admit that I've never been a Don Imus fan. I've long been aware of him, but I've never actually listened to his show. All of what I know about him comes from reports from others, or stories I've ...

The chemical weapons used by terrorists in Iraq are, specifically, chlorine gas bombs. Granted, these chlorine gas bombs are made from chlorine brought by USUK occupation forces to purify the water,