Sarah Palin

by | Aug 30, 2008 | News & Commentary

Like everyone else, I was caught completely off-guard by John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as the GOP Veep candidate. I know next to nothing about Alaska politics so I’ve little to say on that score. What I can say is that a reading of her resumé...

Republican to Democrat

by | Aug 30, 2008 | News & Commentary

Though I’m temperamentally more of an old school Republican (small government = more freedom = better for everybody), the fascist neo-cons have driven me out of the party. Why am I now a registered Democrat? In part so I can vote in Oregon’s closed...

Exactly right

by | Aug 26, 2008 | News & Commentary

Most of us, myself included, have no idea how we might react in a crisis where someone threatening is armed with a gun or knife, and we’re armed with bupkis. What I’ve long said–and this is why post-9/11 there will never be another hijacked...

Real heroes

by | Aug 25, 2008 | News & Commentary

…don’t talk endlessly about their heroism. They rarely mention it at all in fact. Thus John McCain’s recent run of comments about his prisoner of war days (a status which, by the way, doesn’t in and of itself make one a hero) is off-putting at...