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When Bush came to office--installed by the Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al Gore--I speculated that the new President would have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be successful. He chose the opposite path, and his hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of governance and a comprehensive failure. I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine...
...Crimson to beat the Pioneers for the first time ever.But on Saturday night, it was the best defensive effort of the year that propelled Harvard (2-4, 1-0 Ivy) to a thrilling 6-4 road win over Denver (5-5, 1-0 GWLL) in front of a bipartisan crowd of 1,481 fans at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.Almost 300 Crimson fans made the trip a mile above sea level to see the fourth-ever showdown between the two squads. What they witnessed was a Harvard defense that went the game’s final 35:58 without giving...
...taken almost as a given among the professional political class that the 2008 Presidential election is the Democrats' to lose. Republicans are so morose in general, and conservatives so unhappy with their current field of candidates, that the assumption of a Democratic advantage has become bipartisan. And with the public so soured on the Republican in the White House, and so many other trends working against them, including an uptick in the percentage of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats, it's hard to find any good news for Republicans these days. So why, in poll after poll, including...
Without figuring out acceptable ways to leverage similar energies in New Orleans, there is no practical hope for resurrecting the city. The U.S. Congress has passed bits of bipartisan legislation, making it easier for faith-based groups to receive public funds and technical assistance. And the Louisiana Recovery Authority stresses the need to involve and support religious leaders and their organizations. But the city's faith-based organizations are now sagging. Unless Kramer's church gets $125,000 soon, its beg-and-borrow construction projects will grind to a halt. Scruggs too says that keeping the grass-roots rebuilding efforts...
...asking for changes in a TV show, and war critics are on their side: How's that for a Kumbayah moment? But then, media crusading is a political bizarro world, uniting social-issue conservatives with social-engineer progressives. And the year before a presidential election, "protecting the children" has bipartisan appeal (2004 gave us Janet; 2000, Eminem; 1996, Ice-T). Both parties' 2008 fields include candidates who have advocated government steps against TV, music and video games, including Senators McCain, Hillary Clinton and Sam Brownback...