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A week ago Saturday, the Governor could be found with Dad at the Ryder Cup golf tournament, having skipped the tedium of the California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the...
But it was also important not to be too cynical. China is undergoing yet another awesome transformation, one marked by a pragmatic expansion of economic and individual freedom. We could sense both its promise and its limitations wherever we went: at a discussion with religious leaders in a mosque in...
Dole tried to counter his Republican opponent and soften his appearance by having pro-choice speakers at the Republican Convention, including New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman. But as Dole's defeat in the general election shows, Republican candidates cannot shuffle to the right early in their campaigns and then...
The governor's comments have prompted the outgoing chair of the Reform Party, Rusell Verney, to call for Ventura to quit the party. Religious leaders are understandably upset; Pat Robertson diplomatically said Ventura was "off his rocker" at a Christian Coalition convention last week. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R...
The initiatives that approved assisted suicide had all the messy attributes of democracy, including emotional debate and dumb ads, but the state has carried out the law with care. Oregon hasn't become a Hemlock Society convention--only 15 people committed suicide with a doctor's help last year--and...