Are we done yet with whining about Washington's ludicrous caucus and primary system [/blog/#11984]? Sometimes, reading those whines, you start to wonder: Is the writer or are the people talking about wolves or other predators? (It isn't pretty, but where would we be if caucuses didn't cull out the e
Utah, normally immune to slumps, is feeling the effects, and a survey story in The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/us/24utah.html?_r=1&oref=slogin] sheds some interesting light on the changing Mountain West. In the past, the Rocky Mountain West's economy has been driven by commodit
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ended their televised Austin, Texas, debate last week on a high note. But, since then, their campaigns have been outrightly confrontational. The tone is likely to carry over into their Cleveland, Ohio, debate late this week and into March 4 voting in Ohio, Texa
Yesterday, Feb. 21, was quite a day in presidential campaigning. First, Arizona Sen. John McCain took on The New York Times head-on following front-page publication of a story implying [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html] that he had an irregular relationship with a young fe
Today's New York Times' expose on John McCain [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html] is rightly criticized, by Slate.com [http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/02/20/its-about-vicki-stupid.aspx] and others, for its curious thinness of evidence about his supposed p
