As you watch the presidential debates, here's a game to play that won't 
even get you drunk (unless you want to add tequila shots to it): every 
time you hear John McCain tell a lie write down $10 under the name 
Charlotte, and every time...
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        08 October 2008  
  
    
    
    
  Of course Katharine Gun was free to have a conscience, as long as it didn’t interfere with her work at a British intelligence agency. To the authorities, practically speaking, a conscience was apt to be less tangible than a pixel on a...
          06 October 2008  
  
    
    
    
  Michael Moore's new book is called "Mike's Election Guide 2008," and 
it's a nice combination of the comical and the useful. The comical comes 
first. Chapter One consists of Mike's answers to random election-related 
questions, and his...
          06 October 2008  
  
    
    
    
  My daughters and I have cast paper ballots in the opening days of the 2008 presidential election.  It was their first time voting in a presidential election. 
That they have only voted with an African-American atop the...
  That they have only voted with an African-American atop the...
        04 October 2008  
  
    
    
    
  The “necessary war” in Afghanistan, which both presidential candidates support — the one, you know, that’s really about terrorists and Osama and all — raises as many troubling questions about who we are as the other war we’re fighting and...
          29 September 2008  
  
    
    
    
  There was only one foreign policy asked about in Friday night's foreign policy debate: war and potential wars.
Obama began the debate by allowing McCain to get away with claiming the mantle of "accountability" on the issue of...
  Obama began the debate by allowing McCain to get away with claiming the mantle of "accountability" on the issue of...