Entries for June 20, 2006

Two of them today. First, a front page article, available to subscribers, entitled "Perpetrator Problem: It's Hard to Run Away In Falling Trousers." Here's one item:

Here is my Intercollegiate Studies Institute intern Brian Sopp's take on the Democratic agenda announced last week. I would phrase some of this differently myself, but I do think the agenda was pretty thin gruel. But I think we have to admit that it's hard for an opposition party to come up with an agenda and that it's particularly difficult for the Democratic Party, which throughout its history has tended to be more heterogeneous and fissiparous than the Republican Party:

Rep. John Murtha has been taking some hits in the blogosphere for his performance on Meet the Press Sunday. Here's an interesting excerpt:

Five public opinion polls have been released during the past week on Mexico's July 2 presidential election. The candidates are Andres Manuel López Obrador of the leftist PRD, Felipe Calderón of the center-right PAN, and Robert Madrazo of the long-governing (1971–2000) PRI. The results are as follows: