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...claiming a victory for the high road. Fine. But McCain might also know that if middle names become fair game, John Sidney McCain III has his own liabilities. Recently, it has been the unmanly middle names that have caused their owners the most political trouble. In 2006, Jim Henry Webb hammered home the fact that his Virginia Senate opponent was actually George Felix Allen - a middle name that conjured up images of Felix Unger, or perhaps the real life Prince Felix of Luxemburg, either one a far cry from the tobacco-chewing good ole boy Allen styled himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Obama's Middle Name Taboo? | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...it’s safe to carry a handgun on the streets, the umbrella menace remains unspoken in the halls of our out-of-touch government. In fact, members of Congress may be seen regularly strolling through security brashly waving their umbrellas. Last March, an aide to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) provoked an uproar when he accidentally tried to bring a pistol into a Senate office building. Sadly, the national media has taken a far more tepid interest in the scores of umbrellas that enter the building each...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Umbrella Warfare | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...compiling a list of black big-city mayors who have received large-scale Latino support over the past several decades. In 1983, Harold Washington pulled 80% of the Latino vote in Chicago. David Dinkins won 73% in New York City's mayoral race in 1989. And Denver's Wellington Webb garnered more than 70% in 1991, as did Ron Kirk in Dallas in 1995 and again in 1997 and '99. If he had gone back further, Barreto could have added longtime Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, who won a majority of Latino votes in all four of his re-election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Black-Brown Divide | 1/26/2008 | See Source »

...audience-friendly awards show that Corliss fantasizes about already exists. It's called the People's Choice Awards. Dewey Webb, Phoenix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/18/2008 | See Source »

...AUDIENCE-FRIENDLY AWARDS SHOW that Corliss fantasizes about already exists. It's called the People's Choice Awards. Dewey Webb, PHOENIX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

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