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How do you become a second rate sports league? Take a lesson from the NFL. Today the Patriots play the Giants in a bid to complete the first undefeated regular season since the 1972 Dolphins. Unfortunately, in order to actually...

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

If Jazz if America's great contribution to music, and the Europeans certainly think it is, Barbecue is America's great contribution to the global kitchen. The best pork ribs I have ever tasted in a restaurant were served to me Thursday...

Mrs. Clinton on Pakistan

Last week, observers were quick to jump on Mike Huckabee for his response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He offered "apologies" to Pakistan (later clarifying he meant "condolences") and then placed Afghanistan on Pakistan's eastern border rather than western....

Denver Post Advocates Regional Primaries

The Denver Post joins Ken Blanchard, USA Today, and South Dakota party officials in advocating regional primaries. Excerpt: Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1988, describes the current system as "nuts." Few Americans living outside...

No Illusions About Pakistan

Andy McCarthy: "There is the Pakistan of our fantasy. The burgeoning democracy in whose vanguard are judges and lawyers and human rights activists using the ?rule of law? as a cudgel to bring down a military junta. In the fantasy,...

Should this bother us? RC Council votes to give Cabela's a carrot. A really, really expensive carrot.

SDP Jazz Note: 2007 Obituaries

The past year saw the passing of a number of great jazz artists. Ken Laster does a nice tribute to them at In The Grove: Jazz and Beyond. You can hear selections from Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, Alice Coltrane, Michael...

What's New with the Blogs

DBA was propaganda?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Iowa Caucus Watch 2

What I thought I knew

A tale of two party websites

South Dakota Blogs

Plutocracy and secular humanism

Assault on free speech

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

Reflections on Iowa

Building A Better Election

Happy New Year!

Benazir Bhuto

Laptops, REED, and highways

Who? Dems might have another possible gubernatorial hopeful

Change is nearly upon us....

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

Why should we be surprised?

Populism versus power elites

Pander Bear

Santayana And History

Things are going well.....

Why America's in the Gulf

Intel Report Status

American Blogs