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Here’s Sheldon Whitehouse’s response to the Brown University Senate preference poll… Meanwhile, yesterday, the Whitehouse camp chose to focus on Chafee’s 3-point “downslide,” since the last Brown poll in June had him leading Democrat Whitehouse with 41 percent of the vote, and now it is 38 percent.Attention Whitehouse Campaign: The same poll shows a 10…
Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey has a big announcement planned for tommorrow. Here’s the announcement of the announcement, from a flier sent around by the Mayor… Mayor Stephen P. Laffey has a really BIG announcement to make. Repeat: Really “BIG” Laffey announcement. And he wants YOU to hear it!Perhaps Mayor Laffey has learned what’s inside of…
I explain why in my current TechCentralStation column.
At TechCentralStation, I have an article giving some background on how the death of Southern Sudan’s long-time leader John Garang is likely to effect the situation there.
The final line in this story about the new Iraqi constitution caught my eye…“I expect that the constitution would be finished before Monday,” Sunni negotiator Saleh al-Mutlaq said. “Negotiations are still under way and everybody is determined to finish it before the deadline.” He said American and British officials were pressing the Sunnis to compromise…
Conservative arguments against a foreign policy of promoting democracy are becoming more common. Here’s the start of one from Lawrence Auster in The American Thinker…Now that the democratization of Iraq has led to a constitution based on the totalitarian sharia law, perhaps President Bush and his advisors can better understand the truth enunciated by Norman…
Dean Barnett (another conservative New Englander) has an excellent analysis in the Weekly Standard of the Democratic side of the recent Ohio special Congressional election, where a veteran Republican edged out a Democratic newcomer in a solidly Republican district. However, I think the real lesson for Republicans is contained in this paragraph from Barnett…The Republicans…
Let’s give credit to Froma Harrop, which we don’t often do at Anchor Rising. Harrop tells you what Dahlia Lithwick won’t. Here’s Lithwick, in Slate…The reason social conservatives seek to have no exception to New Hampshire’s parental notification statute for situations in which there is a risk to the health of the mother is straightforward:…
Sunday’s Projo ran a detailed, 10-point essay accusing “the right wing” (abbreviated in the article as RW) of hypocrisy. My initial impression is that not a single one of the ten points has any serious merit to it. The Senescent Man has some thoughts on point #2. RightRI takes on point #7. Here are my…