New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson dropped from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight, making my New Hampshire prediction a wee bit more accurate, although he did not endorse Barack Obama. Fred Thompson? Duncan Hunter? You listening?
According to a report in today’s Washington Post 35,000 people moved to Florida last year. This was unusual, because the Sunshine State’s annual population are more on the order of the 268,000 who moved there in 2005. The Post reporter, Peter Whoriskey, speculates that high taxes and the cost of hurricane insurance are making Florida […]
… why the primaries are important, check out this New York Times article on today’s Supreme Court session. The issue at hand is whether the current “three drug” system of lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Oral arguments gave Antonin Scalia more opportunities to taunt those on death row. He does this because he […]
I was having one of those conversations yesterday, in the warm January air, about global warming, the endless war in Iraq, the lack of health care, et cetera, et cetera. My conversational partner expressed the incredulity we’ve all come to live with: “How can these people be so blind? How can they think that all […]
A Record Every Day
“All the snow has turned to water, Christmas day has come and gone.” The old John Prine/Steve Goodman song’s been rattling in my head all week because the two feet of snow that were on the ground at New Year’s is gone, running through my basement like a righteous mighty stream. “Think globally, act locally.” […]