Oct 19 2010

South Carolina Democrats Say National Party Not Doing Enough to Help Them Win

Democrats in South Carolina believe they have a chance to capture the governor’s mansion, if only they could get financial support from the national party. But that help isn’t coming and state-level Dems are not holding back criticism of penny-pinching party officials. The South Carolina Democratic chairman, Dick Harpootlian, told Politico he’s “very disappointed” in [...]


Sep 1 2010

From a Lefty: Five Things the Right Is Doing Right

For nearly two years, the Democrats have controlled the House, the Senate, the presidency and two new judicial appointments to the Supreme Court. So why does it feel like the Democrats lost in 2008? I think it’s because the Democrats have turned losing into an art form. You know how they say a good dancer [...]


Jul 16 2010

Kinsey Institute Still Doing Research the Old-Fashioned Way

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Alfred Kinsey made history in the 1940s and ’50s with books exploring “sexual behavior” in the human male and female. He became a cultural phenomenon, his name shorthand for enlightenment or perversity, depending on how you viewed his pioneering research. A University of California, Berkeley speech in 1949 drew an audience of [...]