Place your bets: Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley is "something close to an even-money bet" [http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2008/06/merkley_said_close_to_an_evenm.html] against Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore. ...
Bruce Bartlett, a conservative writer, has a fascinating article in the new New Republic [http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=46a816dc-f843-41ec-9fe4-fbeac17bcfca] speculating on how many conservatives are defecting to Barack Obama. He finds a fair number of libertarians, such as Andrew Sulliv
Jim Johnson, longtime politico and former Fannie Mae chairman, is leading the candidate's search for a running mate. But he's making headlines for the wrong reasons — questionable past financial dealings.
For some reason, the best route for getting elected is still to run against government, making one wonder if a scientist, say, would ever think of applying for a research job by pointing out how much he or she hates science. This curious distrust of politics, running high in the Obama mania, also le
Forty years ago today, I spent the day on a packed airliner over the Atlantic, bound from Glasgow to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The world was stumbling through a turbulent year [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968]. During my year's study at Edinburgh University, I had glimpsed
