Okay. It's over now. The Boss has spoken. Guess he couldn't endorse McCain since he wasn't Born in the USA.

Quoted: WASHINGTON -- Bruce Springsteen , the rocker who made "Born in the USA" a signature of working-class pride, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president today.

Quoted: The Obama Doctrine Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters ...

Quoted: It would be great if there were something unusual about this story: A person without health insurance gets sick. The person holds off on going to the doctor because there’s no way to pay the bill. The person is denied the full range of treatment because of the absence of insurance. The person dies

Quoted: [Al Gore] may be one of the most intelligent, thoughtful, talented men in America and remarkably well-equipped to lead the nation, but it’s Mr. Bush’s less-than-curious, less-than-distinguished son, George W., who is president.

Argues (among other things) that the "Great Separation," which allows western countries to discuss political issues without reference to what "God's will" might require, is not as well established and enduring as we might think.

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West: Books: Mark Lilla by Mark Lilla

Quoted: Chait is particularly good in describing how the press, wary of seeming partisan, simply reported the claims on each side rather than analyzing them. The problem with this approach, he argues, is that the relationship of the two political parties is no longer symmetric. Democrats do not patrol their ranks for heretics or force them to sign no-tax pledges; liberal think tanks like the Brookings Institution are not devoted to a single view of taxes, as is the conservative Heritage Foundation; and liberal newspapers are far more balanced than, say, Fox News. The right’s belief in its own virtue is why it often descends into paranoia, and not only on talk radio. To true believers, a defeat can only be the result of betrayal. Liberals are less paranoid, Chait argues, if only because they do not have the same kind of “movement” to betray.

Quoted: You do not want people to think of the Republican Party every time they step into a public toilet and so the gentleman had to ...

Quoted: The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages ...