McCain = Solid Experienced Leadership McCain = Commander In Chief Ready McCain = Proven his dedication to this country, with hardship, sacrifice and public service. McCain = Works well with Democrats and Republicans and has their respect. Obama = Nothing - Just watch. No Experience! Done Nothing! Not...

Change is hard. And we haven't undergone this much tumultuous change as a country since Vietnam. We can all recite the litany of woes: two difficult wars, a tarnished international reputation, global climate change, a tanked economy. an interconnected global reality where we must borrow from China...

The American raid into Syria yesterday seems calculated to frighten Americans into voting for John McCain. Obviously, this illegal attack, justified or not, could have been accomplished using unmanned drones firing remotely-controlled missiles, as is done constantly in Pakistan and Iraq. This would have...

Last night in the second Presidential debate, John McCain looked very much like the tired old warrior that he is. Swinging as if from memory, but rarely moving anything but air, he struggled to even stay on his feet. I'll admit, it wasn't much of a town hall, in the sense that most of the questions...

I have been doing quite a bit of calling and canvassing for Barack Obama right here in Delafield and Hartland recently. A reader of these blogs might not guess this, but I know that a lot of you out there are still say that you are "undecided" whether John McCain or Barack Obama represents...

You and I, the American taxpayers, and our children, and their children are about to play our part as the suckers in the largest transfer of wealth in the world's history. What we are watching right now is the final step in Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" game of economics. Now that...

We all knew that Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin were in bed with Big Oil. We just didn't know how much fun we were missing. According to the Interior Department's inspector general's office, those members of this administration responsible for collecting the billions of dollars from Big Oil for...

John McCain's acceptance speech last night was disappointing in so many ways. Of course, the narrative of his experience as a POW was compelling, last night's being the best rendition I have heard, and really defines who John McCain is: a broken warrior. This speech sounded so much more like...

[UPDATE] Nielsen Media Research reports that 38 million people watched Barack Obama's acceptance speech - more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final "American Idol" or the Academy Awards this year. *** Senator Barack Obama not only made...

A new Rand Corporation study concludes that the Bush administration's "war on terror" was essentially ill-conceived and wholly ineffective at preventing terrorist violence. In fact, it has been counterproductive and the study urges a "fundamental rethinking" of counterterrorism...