When The Wife and I went to Rome on our honeymoon, one of the places we went was the Temple of the Divine Julius, which was to the pagan Romans the site of Caesar’s apotheosis. Julius Caesar was assassinated very… Continue Reading
I guess I either picked a bad question for the first poll, or it was too obvious. Everyone’s voting for Rudy as the most electable of the potential GOP candidates. So I’m discontinuing the poll early and moving on to… Continue Reading
After being confused yesterday about why it should be such a big political deal about the U.S. Attorneys being fired, I found as good a write-up about the U.S. Attorney flap as I could have asked for can be found… Continue Reading
Abuses of power are hardly the exclusive province of the Bush White House, and the Bush White House seems to be getting better about this now that there is meaningful political opposition. The same cannot be said of leaders of… Continue Reading
In the past two days, I’ve come across references to patchouli oil three times. Before today, I don’t think I’d ever given much thought to patchouli oil and was barely aware that it existed.You know, for some of you Loyal… Continue Reading
Attorney General Gonzales (of whom I am not a very big fan) has been the subject of demands for resignation, apparently because nine U.S. Attorneys were recently fired and he and possibly political advisors in the White House were somehow… Continue Reading
America finally has its first openly atheist Congressman in the modern era of politics. Maybe ever. Fourtney “Pete” Stark has “come out” with a public admission of his nontheism. However, he still insists that he is a Unitarian, albeit one… Continue Reading
A new widget to the blog appears to the left — the weekly poll. I get to write the polls, so that’s kind of fun for me. Not every poll will be about politics. The poll appears in more than… Continue Reading
Spoiling for a fight before a new Supreme Court next year (coincidentally during election season), Mississippi is apparently on the verge of outlawing all abortions except in the case of rape or endangerment of the mother. Note the absence of… Continue Reading
While we’re contemplating possible Presidential firsts (first woman, first African-American, first Italian-American, first Mormon, first Vietnam vet) I don’t think we’ve ever had a President named Fred before, either. Fred Dalton Thompson is best known to Americans as Arthur Branch,… Continue Reading