December 5th, 2006 by jpeters There is a good commentary about the perfidy of some journalists in the Irregular Times. The columnist rightly notes: "It ought to be the job of the voters, not reporters, to decide which candidates are worthy." Ballot access is not the only hurdle facing many candidates; filtering on the part of many news outlets is

December 2nd, 2006 by jpeters "It's lonely at the top" for Bush, writes first lady of the press Helen Thomas in her latest column, published in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "His hawkish neo-con advisers are deserting him. He had to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Democrats have won control of Congress. U.S. allies are angry at his Iraq policies. And

November 27th, 2006 by jpeters The Seguin, Texas, Gazette-Enterprise's Chris Lykins has a commentary on presidential hopefuls, citing our campaign. As usual, Lykins downplays the wild card -- especially considering the Midterm elections. Lykins does say, "given the Democrats’ recent history of sometimes nominating someone coming out of nowhere, it’s hard to count either of them out." But then he

November 18th, 2006 by jpeters Political blog Blue Oregon has a discussion on it about potential Dem candidates for president. You can find it here. There are some great comments about our campaign, to wit; "What is needed is an electorate that recognizes the need for serious reform and a dark horse candidate with a method to cut the Gordian

November 1st, 2006 by jpeters For more on the New Hampshire Institute of Politics' upcoming events, most notably Mike's speech titled "Stepping Back from Imperialism: Redirecting American Foreign Policy," see the institute's web site here.

November 1st, 2006 by jpeters For more on the New Hampshire Institute of Politics' upcoming events, most notably Mike's speech titled "Stepping Back from Imperialism: Redirecting American Foreign Policy," see the institute's web site here.

October 19th, 2006 by jpeters The scholarly Foreign Affairs opines that George W. Bush's disastrous war marks an end of an era in the Middle East for the United States. In the November/December 2006 issue, Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes in an article titled,"The New Middle East": "[T]he American era in the Middle