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‘Texas will do as Texas decides’

Somebody wrote in — “blogged in?” forgive me, I’m an old newspaper reporter — to the Democratic Daily claiming Debra Medina really isn’t a secessionist.
Medina is an uber-conservative candidate for Texas governor in 2010. The correspondent claims Medina’s recent speech at the Texas capitol in Austin proves she’s not a disunionist. Her words suggest otherwise.
Medina [...]

Tales from the Magic 8-Ball

For the benefit of that majority of folk who find themselves embroiled in debates as to the absurdity of the mantic arts, let me offer this explanation, and then the fun.

All mantic arts, i.e. those disciplines that carry “mancy” at the end of their names — cartomancy (tarot cards), oneiromancy (dream interpretation), necromancy (seances, communication [...]

Preface to The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview

By John Hank Edson

             
Dedicated to Barack Obama
   
History will honor the architects
who advance the quality of humanity
by improving the structures of democracy.
    
This Election Day, November 4, 2008, we find ourselves in the midst of an extraordinary and important moment in the history of the United States of America.  In May, 75,000 people overflowed an [...]

Going With Hillary

Tuesday is primary day in Pennsylvania. A new Pennsylvania poll from MSNBC/McClatchy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shows Hillary Clinton leading Obama 48-43% and Scott Helman notes in the Boston Globe that “In Pa., late deciders could lift Clinton.”
If the pattern of previous primaries and caucuses holds, the biggest procrastinators – those who make up their minds on Tuesday – [...]