Month: February 2010

While I like Dick Durbin better than Chuck Schumer and I am more aligned on issues with Durbin as well, I am not sure that Durbin would be the better Majority Leader. Being a nice guy isn’t necessarily a positive for that...

If you hope hard enough, and look hard enough, the jobs will appear. At least, that’s the thrust of Mark Lange’s recent column in The Christian Science Monitor When we imagine that government – and even...

This is the first in a two-part series about my visit to the Kyeema Foundation in Maputo, Mozambique.  Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. Although avian influenza and H1N1 have dominated the news for the last few...

I take all polls this far out from an election with a shaker of salt, but you have to take heed of polls like this: John Boozman will enter the Arkansas Senate race this weekend as the frontrunner. He leads incumbent Blanche...

Dave Chapelle’s vision of a black presidency was amusing in part because the premise seemed so preposterous. It turned out not to be preposterous at all. Meet President Barack Obama. Not only does Obama’s presidency...