Particularly in local and state politics you are asked to support a candidate and you must consider whether you want to write a sizable check. I consider these four factors in this order: 1. Do I agree with this candidate

I try to avoid the simplistic distinctions between liberal and conservative, but I seem to notice that among my more liberal leaning friends and more openly liberal celebrities there is a tendency to wish for the ‘benevolent dictator’ form of

In the OpinionJournal PETER BERKOWITZ wrote of the destructive power of rage in politics in a great piece called The Insanity of Bush Hatred http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010861 He demonstrates how the rage against Bush sacrifices basic facts and reason to reach the

Headed to the airport I weas listening to the news and heard that Ted Kennedy was against the confirmation of Mukasey as Attorney General because the appointee would not take a definitive position on whether waterboarding was actually torture. Waterboarding

The push to get out the vote by making voting easier (using the internet) or bribing people to vote is often pushed by the more liberal side of our political debate, assuming that all of the young non voters would