That decision allowed the Rockefeller/Dole/Ford/Bush wing of the Republican establishment to steer the party towards the big government left. It was a decision based on pragmatism, compromise, and "unity" at any cost.

The Gerard Intelligence Report indicated Monday that Serbia was about to blowup in our faces. You didn’t hear a word about it in the mainstream media. It was barely mentioned as Bush stood signing the paper that gave our stamp of approval to Kosovo "independence."

Once upon a time, before TV, political candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms by guys whose entire lives revolved around politics and the political process.

In Homer's "Odyssey," the hero Ulysses finds he and his crew anchored off the country of the Lotus-Eaters.

How any "conservative" could consider making John McCain the Republican candidate for president of the United States is beyond me.

I can understand how celebrity or name recognition gives some few a feeling that voting for someone who appears tough or cowboy like ala McCain or George W. Bush makes that candidate what is best for America. Both men talk cowboy tough but as the old rancher said years ago: Some cowboys are “all hat and belt buckle and no horse.“