Fred Thompson should get off his fat rump and declare his manhood or dropout and let his young wife run.

Should the rest of the nation follow these states by proportionately—based on statewide voting—by dividing up its electoral vote? What’s your take on it? And is it any different from a general popular vote?

The best thing for curbing global warming in lieu of countless esoteric alternatives would be nationwide commitment to drive less, slow down, attend to air tire maintenance, keep distance and brake less. At home light switch works both ways, buy fluorescent bulbs, adjust thermostat to stoic level, minimize opening refrigerator-freezer, shutdown computer and TV when not in use. Moreover does stores have to be 24/7, close them down at dusk and Sundays, shut down the damn Internet one day a we...

 Obama’s untiring reminder that he did not vote for the war as though a state senate vote was equivalent to one in Washington, I find glaringly ironic that he would be in favor of his own brand of unilateral action on the border of Pakistan.

 Congress—more accurately the dems—should end its fetish over Gonzales and simply let him fade away, along with his president, into irrelevance. With the administration on its last legs it’s pointless to harp on its obvious incompetence. What’s done is done; instead legislators should focus on how to make the Justice Department whole again for ensuing administrations.

 There’s a curious perception that by raising the minimum wage unskilled workers will not be hired and small proprietors will go out of business, lest they are forced to clean their own toilets and deep fry fish and chips themselves. ’Tis curious because it’s never happened in the history of advanced countries once the world’s slavery was frowned upon, and the Haves were not willing to forgo services.

How about a tentative dictum that all CEOs work for a dollar a year? And wouldn’t it be nice for a Lohann and A-Rod-ilk be required to learn some humility with a hundred thousand a year salary? And who wouldn’t want Paris to visit Paris with just a c-note in her handbag?

With China taking over America shouldn’t it be fitting for the first presidential primary be held on Labor Day in Beijing? It would seem only fair to have the most influential even before California dictate our choices.

 The hype over Obama and Clinton is almost as deadening as that of Bonds and Aaron. Clinton and Aaron have much in common: Hillary is smugly tolerant in allowing Barack’s fleeting moments of fame just as Hank is sure the surrealism surrounding Barry will in the end evaporate and whose stats will terminate at 1998.

If Bush doesn’t want a gasoline tax to underpin our nation’s bridges, why not a corporate tax on auto manufacturers? After all, did the old railway magnates ask for a handout to lay tracks?

Lacking spirit and loss of reason, tonight’s speech had echoes of Johnson’s announcement that he would not seek reelection. Bush showed no spirit because he has lost his “gotta believe” tact. In postulating an illogical premise that 21,000 troops will squash the resistance, even though he admitted in years to follow it would still be bloody, is simply a cry of desperation. Strategically with so few troops there was no need for a speech or thinking of it as a “new strategy.” Actually it is but...

“Escalate - More boots to the zone - counter insurgency - special force incursion - surge” — are irrelevant terms for the current Iraqi scenario. Rather, the linguistics of reality is “redeploy - troop withdrawal - cut and run - timetable.”  A surge not unlike a tsunami overwhelms but then recedes for victims to resurge havoc. Not since the last Great War has there existed the merciless but realistic integrity of military strategy. From Korea onward skirmishes consist of eggs unde...

Kerry, of course, was irrelevant up to now, what with his inexcusable gaffe bringing back memory of “I voted for it before I voted against it.” What he meant to say is also irrelevant in confrontation with what he actually said. The nuance of the quality of those in service is a no-brainer in that they are but a part of top-down system. So Kerry, guilty of tortured logic, claimed he was referring to the lack of intelligent preparation on the part of Bush and the overall lack of brain ...

Though it is likely, there is no guarantee that the Democrats will take back the House and unlikely to take back the Senate. Still, if the Democrats take charge, it would be advisable for the moderate Republicans to cooperate to an extent; otherwise, there will be little for the Dems to do but exercise subpoena power which will only further extreme partisanship. First and foremost is an agreement on how best to settle the Iraq challenge politically and militarily. All seem to agree that a mass...

The liberal imperative—and what I mean by that is the liberated mind—for this election is that finally the voter is driven more by reality than sophistry playing on fear. “Stay the course” has worn out its flimsy cloth implying if we “cut and run” the terrorists will follow us home, along with handing over a state to Al Qaeda to forge its manifesto. The US voter now sees clearly—and certainly with anxiety—the longer we stay is in tandem with the relentless loss of American troops placed in the ...