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While the question of what women, in general, want may still be up in the air, this afternoon a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll sheds considerable light on what Democratic women want. In a survey of Democratic voters, 60% of the women polled stated they hoped...

Barack Obama’s choice to involve Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, as part of a three-person team leading his search for a running mate is another not-so-subtle example of his very real desire to be seen as the present-day embodiment of Camelot. It may...

Yesterday the Washington Post reviewed the revival of Russell Lees' two-character play Nixon's Nixon which is running at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, until June 22.  (A previous post at TNN linked to an earlier Post article about this production.)...

As John Taylor pointed out a couple of days ago, Obama's victory speech had an odd passage:  I honor [McCain’s] service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. It was reminiscent of another speech, from 1962.  The speaker had just...

My favorite detail from last night's still apparently anti-climactic events in the Obama-Clinton combat is this one from today's New York Post: He tried to call her twice following the speech - but got her voicemail. She finally returned the call as his plane was...

In the current issue of the American Spectator (you'll have to go to a bookstore or newsstand, or subscribe to the magazine, to read it, since the print version's contents are not online) Fox News correspondent James Rosen (whose very well-researched and highly...

Evan Thomas is back subtracting from the sum total of human knowledge. A few weeks ago, he declared that nobody in 1966 thought that Richard Nixon would win the 1968 GOP nomination.  In fact, Nixon was already the frontrunner.  Now Thomas has written on what would...

The Associated Press just declared that Sen. Barack Obama has "effectively clinched" the Democratic presidential nomination, based on the wire service's tally of delegates.  Still, Sen. Hillary Clinton presses on. A few hours ago the AP reported that she would concede...

According to Liz Smith's column today: SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie "Bernard and Doris," is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, "It's a...

Over the weekend, former Rep. Bob Barr managed to wrangle the Libertarian  presidential nomination at that party's convention in Denver.  In an earlier post I referred to the traditional contentiousness of the Libertarians, and in their usual tradition it took no less...