Month: August 2008

I've been boycotting the Olympics this year, but even while avoiding the actual coverage, one thing that's grown harder and harder to do is to miss the stories about …

A lot of people are talking about how Barack Obama has outraised John McCain in donations from US troops deployed overseas. Enough talk, indeed, to get me to actually …

Well, President Bush has gone beyond words in regards to the United States' response to the Russian-Georgian conflict, and taken action that declares just where our sympathies lie: US …

The Russian invasion of Georgia is a genuine crisis, with significant meaning on many levels. In addition to the obvious military, political, and economic issues surrounding the conflict, a …

Yesterday, a psycho gunman shot and killed Bill Gwatney, Arkansas' Democratic party state chairman. The initial reports say that it was not likely a political killing, but rather personal …

If you've been caught up in Olympic fever there's one scene you probably haven't seen on NBC's wall to wall coverage... I can't show you video of Hungarian weightlifter...

Earlier today, I talked about the reactions of President Bush and Senators McCain and Obama to the Russian invasion of Georgia. At the end of that, I said that …

UPDATE: Bill Gwatney has died from his injuries.. My heart goes out to his family, who must be sick with grief over this senseless tragedy. Bill Gwatney, chairman of …

Or so the Obama campaign is telling his supporters by requiring that they give six hours of volunteer service towards his campaign for one free ticket. And they have …

The current crisis in Georgia has a lot of people thinking, and paying attention to a region of the world we tend to ignore -- the breakaway republics of …