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This comment is pure fluff, but it's been driving me nuts looking at the news photos and Booman reminded me…
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I rather doubt that the average Cuban will be better off under a democracy than under the current regime, especially…
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A Clinton coup at the convention would leave me in a rather difficult position. I could not, of course, vote…
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And the F-22 Raptor and Star Wars will be, after all, America's first, last and only line of defense when…
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God, I hope so. The ever-extending campaign season is as annoying as the way Christmas displays start appearing in stores…
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The fundamental problem with all polls is that they only sample the set of people who answer polls voluntarily. Depending…
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Worse than that, a lot of Democrats will stay home rather than vote for a candidate that was forced on…
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No kidding. Texas is definitely a creature unto itself. The South isn't a monolithic entity, anyway. We have as rich…
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I brought up the latest primary results on the phone with my recently-retired mother, an ardent supporter of both Clintons,…
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President Obama. President Clinton. President McCain. I can't think of any of these without my stomach cramping up. There's some…
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In all the post-mortems I've read today, no one anywhere has expressed any ideological discomfort with the prospect of an…
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Obama is where he is at today because society changed, one person at a time. That is a much overlooked…
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Could that be why Bill Richardson, a former U.N. secretary and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, refused to endorse…
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It's easier to say than "people who are being left behind by the post-industrial economy the same way farmers were…
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It's a start. Rome wasn't built in a day, or, to bring it home, we didn't go from McCarthyism to…
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Scalping has a long pedigree amongst Europeans, going back to the preclassical era, Supersoling. Herodotus comments on the practice amongst…
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Webb. Again. Another nail in the coffin of the stupid notion that Dem veterans automatically make good politicians. Maybe someday…
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I look forward to a McCain presidency because it guarantees at least another four years of BostonJoe's "Dear Batshit Loopy…
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That's kind of what I was thinking. I suspect the logistics are a little more complicated than that, but what…
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The nuclear arsenal stands out in my mind as a signal difference between Russia and Venezuela. Russia's trump card is…
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