A Name Game

I fully intended to sit down tonight and write about the courage of California Senator Barbara Boxer, who stood on the floor of the US Senate today and demanded, alone among her 99 fellow senators, that our government take notice of its democratic obligations.

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A Fade To The Finish

When I was a sophomore in college, a friend of mine’s father came to town to watch a horse he owned run in the Louisiana Derby. It was an exciting week. We got full privileges at the racetrack and spent lots of time hanging around the paddock with Dr. K and his horse trainer, watching Spartan Emperor get put through his paces, getting the inside dope on the mysterious world of high-stakes thoroughbred horse racing.

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The Fear & Ad Hominem Approach

With ten days to go before a presidential election billed on both sides as the most important in a generation, our incumbent’s desperation is on full display. Sadly for John Kerry, who, barring outright election fraud, should receive enough popular and electoral college votes on November 2nd to become the next President of the United States, any victory will be a pyrrhic one.

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