I have written on a number of occasions now about the odd couple - Senator John McCain and the Republican Party. Through the sometimes incredible process of Presidential Preference Primaries, Senator McCain has emerged as the solid choice of who ? He is the selected candidate for the Republican
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04/29/2008
Americans love a good conspiracy. I have written previously about the American public preferring to think our problems are the result of some complex and devious plan by politicians that didn't quite work out rather than to see the problem as the result of human incompetence. But it is interest
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04/29/2008
Microsoft is coming to a desktop near you. No really ! This is new ! Microsoft is releasing information about a new computing environment which recognizes the Desktop is no longer where it’s at in the computing world. It is the internet that rocks. Microsoft Live Mesh will be your new best frie
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04/28/2008
In an unusual interview on 60 Minutes Sunday, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court chatted with Lesley Stahl before the 60 Minutes cameras. It seems even Supreme Court Justices come out in public to promote their new books. It was a pleasure to watch the Justice in an informal
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04/28/2008
In Indiana, its officalIndiana has a strict requirement that all voters must present a photo ID when they come to the polling place to vote. The sides of the question are pretty obvious. The State wants to prevent voter fraud. The liberals whine that such a requirement will disenfranchise the
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04/28/2008
C/Net's Webware site has released the list of Webware 100 for 2008. The list contains web 2.0 apps selected by readers as the top 100 Web 2.0 applications in the following categories: Audio: Music, podcasts, audiobooks. Browsing: Browsers, start pages, RSS readers, widgets, runtime engines. Comm
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04/25/2008
Regardless of the results of the Pennsylvania primary tomorrow, the Clinton campaign is simply out of gas. Current figures from Fox news show Senator Obama with $41 million on hand with negligible debt while Mrs Clinton has $9 million on hand with $10 million in outstanding debts. Mrs Clinton w
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04/21/2008
The Wall Street Journal Political Diary Newsletter today carried an interesting comment by Brendan Miniter which describes the typical result of Liberal "feel good" policy making. By legislation, the Congress reduced the interest rate that a bank could charge for student loans to make college "m
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04/18/2008
Those who patronize this palace of culture that is my blog will know that I am a major fan of Vice President Dick Cheney. He is, in my view, a great American and has been in the right places when we needed him for decades. Perhaps his greatest strength as Vice President has been the fact that h
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04/17/2008
I have been intrigued by the Obama candidacy. Although I am going to vote for the Republican nominee, I have felt that despite the similarities in policy and voting record between Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama, the Senator from Illinois was the more interesting of the Democrat candidates. The vision
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04/15/2008
