The following is the text, as prepared for delivery, of Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, as provided by the Obama campaign. To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens...
With the Presidential campaign about to go nuclear negative, I thought it might be time to re-link to a post I wrote a couple of months ago regarding the only time that Barack Obama and John McCain have worked together in the Senate. Obama used the instance as the...
An interesting article on the Supreme Court by Richard Posner. Posner is a judge on the Seventh Circuit here in Chicago, a professor at the University of Chicago and generally regarded as one of most influential legal minds of this generation. The article is longish...
Why haven’t I paid any attention to politics before this year? Its awesome. So, the other day, McCain gets asked how many homes he has. Usually a pretty simple question of course, but, well, Cindy McCain is pretty wealthy and has more than a single two bedroom...
There’s a couple of articles below that I would normally just run through the sidebar. They’re pretty important however so I thought that I’d give them a full post. Both are from the Long War Journal and they’re the best thing I’ve seen...
We cannot tolerate nuclear weapons in the hands of nations that support terror. Preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a vital national security interest of the United States. No tool of statecraft should be taken off the table, but Senator McCain would...