This not good "journalism" is merely a political editorial. The author's comments are not much more than a smear. The comment that "abuse of women that Bill Clinton-with his wfe's full knowledge..." is unsupported and represents ad hominem at it's worst. Faye Wattleton's response to Chris Matthews question is a frank admission that women in this country are often having to depend on powerful men to ascend to a position of power rather than being able to do so on their own merits. This is a sad commentary on the status of women in the United States in the 21st century. Andrew Sullivan has chosen to take a biased position that reflects his sexist beliefs and a well documented antipathy for the candidate rather than any attempt ... More »

While Mr. Istook may disagree with the results of this survey, I believe that the Gallup Poll Group has a good understanding of statistical sampling requirements for this purpose. As a CPA dealing with employer owned small businesses as a regular part of my practice, I can say that the results of this survey are representative of their feelings. Most are daunted by the cost of obtaining health care for themselves and their employees. Most also do not have a cost effective avenue to obtaining health insurance for their employees.

I wouldn't consider this true journalism in that this article is merely a recitation of fact based upon poll results, but really makes no attempt to look outside of those numbers for corroboration. The responses to several of these questions, particularly those concerning race, gender and religious affiliation, do not reflect our voting history, a fact that goes without comment. Additionally success in business as well as experience in Washington and the Senate have in the past been an Albatross around the neck of a candidate, as none of the recently first time elected presidents have met any of these standards. This poll gives the impression that as a country that we are much more liberal than our voting records would indicate. ... More »

This is good journalism in that it gives exposure to a source of opinion outside of the US, and thus not colored by US politics. That is not to say that the UK, by virtue of their support with troops, doesn't have something at stake, but Blair is already on the way out, so his successor has to deal with the war now. Perhaps this is an attempt to try to get the new PM to stay the course as well. On the other side what he offers is no option. His basic position, whether or not he states it, is that troops need to stay to see some kind of outcome that the West can find satisfactory. That doesn't look to be in the picture for the foreseeable future, at least not based upon the events and conditions we read or hear about. This open ... More »

I also believe Global warming is a problem, but I haven't sold my cars and starting riding my bike to work either. I have no doubt that the effect will be a long term issue, but at some point we have to make an effort to begin to reduce our contribution to the problem. No one person can do the entire job, but someone has to begin to sound the alarm in a manner that gets peoples attention and people love movies. This report seeks to discredit the entire process by discrediting the messenger. The one issue they do bring up that bears attention is the idea of carbon offsetting. This reminds me of the pollution tax credits being sold around.