Month: May 2007

The idea that fraudulent voting is undermining elections is myth promulgated by the Bush Administration and its partisan partners. The New York Times reports: “Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on...

Cross-posted at Voting Matters By Nathan Henderson-James If yesterday’s civic lesson was that every vote counts, today’s civic lesson is that it’s the rules of voting that counts. Two stories out of small-town...

Jonathan Chait’s opus on the blogosphere is behind a subscription firewall at The New Republic. That’s a shame because he put a lot of effort into it and it has some interesting points. Unfortunately, he mistakes the...

Now, I will start by saying that it is actually a good thing that this administration has finally (yet secretively) woken up to the overwhelming number of Americans that realize that Iran and Syria are situated next to Iraq and...

National Security Adviser Steven J. Hadley is still looking for someone to take a high profile job that folks in Washington are referring to as the “war czar.”  The war czar, as Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New...