Category: Politics

Kofi just doesn't get it. United Nations' Annan calls Iraq vote a 'first step' toward democracy ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the world must encourage voters …

From Washington > Talk of Taxes, Social Security and Blogs at G.O.P. Retreat" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/politics/30repubs.html?ex=1264741200&en=231e3abbe1d6f9ca&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">The New York Times coverage of the G.O.P. retreat.Senator John Thune of South Dakota introduced senators …

I'd like to publicly congratulate the Bush Administration for taking the moral high road during the recent confirmation hearings of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Not once did they …

Where is the "Count Every Vote" crowd? GOP has verified 737 illegal votes in governor race OLYMPIA, Wash. - State Republican Party officials say they have verified 737 illegal …

I haven't written much about Massachusetts' Big Dig project, but the latest revelations are just too good to share. But first, a bit of background. The project to rework …

The Wall Street Journal revisits the November 2003 story of the leaked Senate Judiciary Committee memos. When that story first broke I predicted that the most basic of security …

Yikes, Bill goes wildly off course in his update here. Not a big deal. He gets a whole heap of facts wrong but, I'm just not in the mood …

I clipped more of this than I usually would, but read the whole excerpt and as you read it, count on you fingers all the ways we are going …

First, a bit of an apology. Between being trapped in by The Blizzard Of Death, '05 Edition, some long-overdue cleaning and rearranging, and the arrival of a boxed set …

Today was, among other things, "Not One Red Dime" day. Timed to coincide with President Bush's inauguration, the Perpetually Indignant decided to "bring the retail establishment to its knees" …