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Hare's big ideas aren't as revolutionary these days, but his liberal leanings persist. The heroes of his plays are the people left to clean up the messes made by those in power: "priests or policemen, social workers or teachers," he says. Where his earliest works urged the collapse...
The arrival of Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, at the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday caused a minor sensation among the members of the foreign press who were camped out there. Wurzelbacher, who got his first 15 minutes of fame as a prop for John McCain...
One crucial factor is that Minnesota already had an election law in place to handle close elections, which mandated a hand recount in contests with a margin of victory smaller than 0.5 percent. Coleman’s razor-thin 0.0075 percent margin of victory over Franken in November failed to...
Equally important is the fact that Minnesota’s voting machines leave a clean paper trail, which allowed the recount to take place. If, for instance, Georgia’s recent senatorial runoff election resulted in a similarly small margin, there would have been no possible hand recount. Georgia?...
Although Coleman’s lawsuit challenging the recount results may be legitimately founded, it exposes the emptiness of his earlier calls for Franken to concede the election. On Nov. 5, Coleman triumphantly declared “Yesterday the voters spoke, We prevailed.” He then cast doubt...