I am unexpectedly away doing "caregiving" duties. There was no time to explain beforehand that I would be gone.I'm not finished with that yet, but I'll be back soon as possible.

From the MASSACHUSETTS-ANNEXED FRONTIER TERRITORY OF MAINE... The Declaration of Independence: Brittle Parchment of Liberty If you are going to sever ties to your Commonwealth through bloody struggle, it is considered polite to write down why. Nobody wants to get

A new poll conducted by Scientists and Engineers for America indicates an overwhelming majority of voters prefer candidates who support research into science and technology, with emphasis on the three E's: education, environment, and energy. Nice to know, and in

Abbreviated July 4 edition. Happy holiday from Daily Kos, the home of American patriotism in the best sense of the word (now get out and do some field work). Eugene Robinson: Anyone who took U.S. history in high school ought

Swing State Project has been gathering 2Q fundraising reports as they come out. Florida Governor Charlie Crist is engaged. For the fifth time. (He was married once, for 6 months.) Obviously it's not like this could have anything at all

Samuel Johnson famously wrote in 1775 that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." In The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce made the appropriate correction: "With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that

You know your legal problems are bad, when you're spending more on your campaign manager's legal fees than he makes, and more than you're spending on campaign polling despite facing the two toughest challengers you've seen in nearly twenty years.

In April, as they were being buried under a flood of some 310,000 new Democratic voter registrations in Pennsylvania, state Republican leaders promised a major effort to win back voters after the primary. But according to Pennsylvania Republican Committee Spokesman

Gordon Smith has his story, and he's sticking to it, no matter that it's, well, a lie. A few weeks ago, I posted on Gordon Smith's deceptive ad, in which he tried to claim that he was just like Barack

Coming Up on Sunday Kos .... georgia10 will explore the new face of activism and what it looks like for the millennial generation. DemFromCT will review recent polling on health care as it relates to the 2008 campaign, and the

It's called a "TRACS" boat and for security purposes the equipment that's on board can't be detailed. However, this new anti-terror boat is reported to have the keen ability to detect even the slightest traces of radiation. This alone could

Air crash investigators have revealed the operators of a cargo plane which caught fire at San Francisco last week received a threat earlier in the week.In its continuing investigation to determine the cause of the June 28, 2008, fire that

America's top military official said on Wednesday that he has all the authority he needed for targeting senior Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan's tribal areas but refused to say if US troops were also allowed to operate inside

Installing your own extreme weather protection could save money on home insurance, it has been claimed.

Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 86.

The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is doing combat operations in the volatile south, will stay an extra

The American Family Association has launched a call for a boycott of McDonald's, including a website, BoyCott McDonald's. The boycott call stems from McDonald's refusal to condemn Vice President of Communications Richard Ellis's election to the Board of Directors of

As they look to the fall election, Democrats face a strategic decision that has bedeviled their party for 40 years: How hard should they fight in the South?

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. No more. Record crude oil prices are fueling support for oil and natural gas

Automotive financing is often made available to consumers with poor Credit ratings and few borrowing options. While dealers like Benedict Subaru of Norwich take pride in their willingness to set up financing for people who don?t qualify through other programs,