CNN.com
Former Sen. John Edwards is dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, CNN has learned.
Edwards has told top advisers about his decision. It is expected he will announce it at a speech in New Orleans, Louisiana, at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
This is a bit surprising to me as since he has been [...]
It looks like the Republican race has narrowed down to Mitt Romney and John McCain. Giuliani, who I was rooting for, had I think a viable strategy of focusing on the late game, but it was torpedoed by McCain emerging from the early primaries as the front runner. McCain and Giuliani attract a lot of [...]
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Lech Walesa, Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity trade union icon, and economist Leszek Balcerowicz, architect of Poland’s transition from communism to a market economy, and Cuban dissident Hector Palacios Ruiz, on Monday launched an international petition for the release of more than 200 Cuban political [...]
InsideCatholic.com – The Trouble With Child Labor Laws
An interesting essay, not sure I completely agree but it does raise some good points. Here is a bit from near the end:
What lesson do we impart with child labor laws? We establish early on who is in charge: not individuals, not parents, but the state. We tell [...]
washingtonpost.com
Scientists at a California company reported yesterday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.
Creation of the embryos — grown from cells taken from the company’s chief executive and [...]
I have seen a lot of commentary on the left celebrating that the Republicans are increasingly fractured and expressing the idea that should the nomination process drag on without a winner, perhaps up until the convention, that it would be a big gain for the Democrats.
My feeling is that this is a mistaken analysis. [...]
ABC News: The Rezko Connection: Obama’s Achilles Heel?
In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, for “advice” as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the [...]
I have been fairly dismissive of the allegations that Ron Paul is a racist. That is something that is often thrown around with little merit, and further I think his ideas are wacky enough that they will fail on their own. While it has been obvious that some racists and similar bigots supported him, that [...]
Unlike Iowa, where I should have trusted the polls, I don’t see any reason to doubt the expected results from New Hampshire.
On the Democrat side it is Obama followed by Clinton and then Edwards. Clinton’s loss in Iowa has been magnified by her actions since, not unlike although to a lesser degree then Howard Dean [...]
Interviews with Rudy Giuliani and John McCain on the war on terror. (via Instapundit)
I agree with most of what each of them have to say, and their differences are not really very great on this issue. McCain even talks about something that I have long promoted, a league of democracies, although I would have is [...]
