Do You Believe in Magic?

Do you believe in magic? I don’t either, but there are few among us who wouldn’t agree that Barack Obama’s meteoric political rise this year has seemed downright magical.
For a few months, I almost started believing in Obama’s magic myself.
I yearn to believe in him; I yearn to vote for him.
I feel that with [...]

Obama’s Alinsky Jujitsu

If I were the least bit prone to gratuitous sympathy, I would be tempted now to feel quite sorry for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Poor, poor woman. She was quite nearly brought to all-out tears yesterday in New Hampshire, as she soliloquized over the sad state of her drooping campaign and how completely personal [...]

Dreaming of a United-We-Stand America in 2008

With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last week, we in America are jolted back to the reality that we are a world at war with IslamoFascist armies. Even our holiday cheer and spiked eggnog cannot protect us from the grim truth that in this modern age of nuclear weaponry, a single assassination halfway ‘round [...]