Folks will probably think I’ve been snacking on the crazy cake, but I’ve got a strong feeling that Texas goes blue this year. Here are some select quotes from delegates to this year’s Texas GOP convention:
But, Etzel said, “I don’t think anybody is all that enthusiastic” about McCain’s candidacy. “McCain is not a [...]
This interactive election guide from NYT is a great resource because they also show the relative results of the last eight presidential contests for each state. I like to think that the way to read this as the effects of having a particularly charismatic figure running for office. The effect of having a Reagan or [...]
The Drug Policy Alliance has produced an amazing essay on the current state of the War on Drugs, and it’s remarkable just how flimsy the theoretical basis of this delusion is. Ethan Nadelmann concisely obliterates six popular Drug War propaganda lines:
“The Global War on Drugs can Be Won”
“We Can Reduce the Demand for Drugs”
“Reducing the [...]
In an announcement breathlessly awaited for well over a decade, long-time Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle announced his retirement. Now the floodgates open for what stands to be a vigerous and crowded race.
Several prominent Democratic lawyers and judges have been suggesting that they would put their names in the hat for DA, would Earle [...]
First, please note this clever list, with the understanding that as each point describes how one votes at a primary, it also provides a reason why you ought to vote in a primary. For Dem’s, this includes the privilege of voting for Dennis Kucinich.
Several solutions have been offered for dealing with the escalating battle between the states in [...]
There has been a great deal of conflict within the respective major political parties about how the presidential primaries are scheduled. A number of states have broken with the national parties and have scheduled their primaries earlier than they were allowed to do so. For these transgressions, these states have symbolically lost their representation in [...]
I was a kid when “The Ronald” was first elected president, but I remember being very disappointed to have lost Carter, that kind, wise man, in favor of some pimped up rodeo clown. “Voodoo economics” was how the first George Bush characterized Reagan’s “Trickle-Down” economic theory during the primaries. I remember being distressed at the [...]
A major difficulty in even bringing up problems with the criminal justice system is an apparently universal assumption that any convicted felon is worthy of any torment we can lay upon him. Only in the case of an innocent man executed by the state can there be the appropriate sense of indignity at the incompetence [...]
“When a nation becomes a debtor nation, this signals a fall of international stature, as evidenced by the fall of the Dutch Empire in the 1600s, the Spanish Empire in the 1700s, and the British Empire in the 1800s,” he said. 25 years ago the United States was the world’s largest lender nation by [...]
Last night in Nashua, US Senator Barack Obama became the latest Democratic presidential candidate to say that if he were elected president he would end raids from federal law enforcement agencies against those who use medical marijuana in the dozen states where it is legal to do so.
According to Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana, this [...]