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I came across a few columns that I thought that you might find interesting.   The reason that I get to write this column is...

Dear Ted Kennedy, I miss you, so many of us miss you, so very much.   Ted, I am torn on our current health care reform...

I got this e-mail this morning from a childhood friend. I just thought I’d pass it on, because yesterday Pepe LePew’s kindness in Montana...

Watching the health care debacle has convinced me of one thing. We need campaign finance reform to fix what ails our congress. Campaign finance...

The Washington Monthly has a very good article about the health insurance reform debate over whether or not to scuttle the House and Senate...

This was devastating news. Something that hit me a little harder than I expected it to. Montana has managed to avoid the economic dislocation...

Rachel Maddow just mentioned and the AP feed here at The Planet also presents the story that the Senate Dems meeting on health care...

This is my first post here, and I'm livid about the damage one person seems to be intent on doing to this Administration, radging up the base of the Progressive Left that leaves them looking as patently stupid as their counterparts on the Religious Right. This is a rant about a someone whose political acument smells about as rank as feta cheese.

The Syrian king, Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria and the Selucid Empire (175-163 B.C.E.), was both cruel and arrogant—typical of tyrants. The title he...

The military, for a number of years, had a draft.  It was done away with in the 1970s and there has been an all...