I just discovered, while looking something else up, that Alan Keyes is once again running for President in the GOP primary.  He’s even slated to appear in the next Iowa debate, which is being organized by the Des Moines Register.  I probably have a better chance at winning the GOP nomination than Mr. Keyes, but [...]

The Humanitarian Response Index has rated the United States as in the bottom third of western countries in humanitarian giving.  Should we be alarmed that our country is so miserly and unhelpful?
Well, not if we look at how the ratings are calculated.  In terms of the amount of dollars given, the US does quite well.  [...]

One of the big issues in this primary season is how the War on Terror should be fought. On the one hand, you have the Democratic candidates, plus Senator McCain and Representative Paul, who believe that the War on Terror is fundamentally a public relations war that the United States can only win by [...]

Bush, Olmert, and Abbas have promised an Israeli-Palestine Peace Treaty in 2008.  It’s good to see the President finally taking an interest in the issue.  The thing is, I can’t decide if an agreement at these negotiations would be the best thing to happen to the peace process in a long time, or the worst.
The [...]

This past week I was in California for a conference and then Thanksgiving.  I had a chance to talk to a number of people that I rarely see, and naturally the conversation turned to politics.  I had at least a dozen conversations that followed the same pattern:  I would ask them who they liked among [...]

In his New York Times editorial today, David Brooks argues that American society has become increasingly splintered along racial and ethnic lines. The bulk of his evidence comes from the world of music. He notes that the artists and audience for rock bands is increasingly white-only, and that as a result modern rock [...]

Big national news over at foxnews.com: a Boy Scout “support the troops” drive to put donation boxes at the city’s polling places last Tuesday, only to have them removed later after a resident complained that the boxes amounted to a political message.  It is against state law to display political messages within 150 feet of [...]

There is one issue upon which it seems that every candidate agrees: that the United States military needs to be larger. Of course, they differ in what that means exactly: Obama and Clinton have talked about increasing the number of Special Forces and Military Police to better fight the war on terror, while the [...]

The Roman Catholic Bishops just put forth a document that tells Roman Catholics what their moral obligations are in regarding who to vote for.
In case there are any Catholics reading this site, the candidate you vote for must oppose abortion, euthanasia, stem-cell research, same sex marriage, and torture in any form (”torture is always wrong”).  [...]

Power is one of those concepts that runs political scientists around in circles. If you put a half dozen political scientists in a room, they’ll come up with two dozen definitions and conceptions of the term, and none of them will really like any of them. They’ve been talking about it for years, [...]