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The New York Times has an excellent article on the problems with lethal injection from the NYT Magazine (also kudos on the Neil Young lyric for the title).
I am morally opposed to the death penalty. I believe there is only one to judge the living and the dead and I believe that anyone that gets the [...]

Which means it won’t go anywhere.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-CT., said Tuesday that Congress should consider a special tax to pay for the nation’s war against terrorism. The Republicans and the Bush administration have tried to hide the costs of the war since the very beginning burying it in off-budget requests and refusing to include any [...]

That’s what we’re looking at if a story in the NY Times today comes to fruition. Basically, four very large states (California, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey) are likely moving their primaries to a single, early date. That date would be February 5th in 2008. That would essentially eliminate any smaller campaigns and require that [...]

I took a governmental budgeting class for my Master’s degree with the city manager of my town, so I got to know him a little bit. We live in a suburban area, so I’d imagine it’s an easier spot to fill than the towns in rural Oklahoma profiled in this NY Times piece.
However, the point [...]

Engadget, one of my favorite websites, has a regular feature called CE-Oh No He Didn’t, where they post outrageous quotes from tech CEOs. Sony’s Ken Kutaragi is a recent favorite with his comments about the PS3 (”work harder”). I think I will steal the bit for this story.
Apparently, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) isn’t too happy about [...]

Banks, just off their victory in Congress on the Visa/Mastercard Protection Act new bankruptcy law, have gotten their lobbyists to insert a provision in yet another rushed tax bill that puts about 1 billion new provisions in the tax bill that was only supposed to extend existing provisions.
This time, PMI will be deductible for loans [...]

Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.- Proverbs 31:8-9
I’m not sure if the Verse of the Day from Sojourner’s was selected intentionally for today, but it sure lends itself well to the story over the latest row [...]

One of the things I hate about not having the Left of the Middle archives available is that many of my posts from 2003 and 2004 are coming back to haunt us. One of the themes that I had was the myriad of problems with electronic voting machines leading up to and including the 2004 [...]

Per CNN
I think having Rumsfeld go now is brilliant. Take away the Dems spotlight and you know the hearings are going to be a zoo. Give the Dems every chance to hang themselves (and we all know they will) before 2008. This is the Democrats wet dream. They’re going to try the Iraq War on [...]