The Party of Lincoln

The aborrence of the Republican Party leadership of any kind of regulation of financial markets and total absence of reason with respect to raising the debt ceiling demenstrates once again that it represents government of the wealthy, by the lobbyists, for the money changers. 

The New York Times - The Public Editor

In the Sunday, December 10th issue oif the New York Times, Clark H0yt, the Public Editor agonizes over "... what to call people who pursue political, religious, territorial, or unidentifiable goals through violence on civilians." There does exist a well-established rule for deciding. It comes from Hoyle's rules for poker. Simply put, it says that cards "speak for themselves". A player may not call two-pair a full-house. By analogy, these individuals should be called homicidal sociopaths.