January 29, 2008 -
Yesterday, President Bush signed this year's bill for military spending. But as Congressional Quarterly reports today (sub required), he did so only while promising to ignore measures in the bill to ensure accountability for spending and promote self-determination in Iraq:
January 29, 2008 -
As Facing South readers know, the Gulf Coast recovery is still a live and burning issue for thousands of people. But it has yet to come up in any of the 2008 presidential debates.
January 29, 2008 -
During his final State of the Union Address delivered last night, President Bush announced that this April's North American Leaders' Summit will be held in New Orleans:
January 29, 2008 -
The following states will have primaries or caucuses on Feb. 5th (number of Democratic delegates in parenthesis):
January 28, 2008 -
Yesterday's Raleigh News & Observer ran a terrific story on last week's surprise victory by the grassroots movement fighting the U.S.
January 28, 2008 -
Ex-lefty curmudgeon Christopher Hitchens has a piece in Slate -- echoing our blog post earlier today -- about Bill Clinton's history with racial politics.
January 28, 2008 -
Finally (well, at least for today), there's new research out from The Brookings Institution that claims worries over the security of electronic-voting technology are overblown and that points out paper ballots present serious problems of their own, Governing.com