John McCain's Democracy in America - The few, the wealthy, the well-connected

Doug Kmiec — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:45:00 GMT

John McCain has some well-heeled friends -- and donors, and they have some strange ideas about what they're entitled to in the way of congressional attention. Well come to think of it, the idea of helping large campaign donors profit from public programs is neither strange, and apart from bribery and the like, nor illegal -- and that's what is really strange and disheartening....(read more)

Resolving Obama's paradox – constructively meeting the abortion “clash of absolutes”

Doug Kmiec — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:16:00 GMT

Senator Obama has campaigned as a unifier transcending the divisions of old politics. There is no subject on which there is greater division than abortion. Winning the Pennsylvania primary and the nomination may well depend on leading now, and not just on "day one," with a tangible, common ground proposal suggesting how the incidence of abortion might be reduced while still respecting the integrity of a woman's decision....(read more)

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John McCain's Democracy in America - The few, the wealthy, the well-connected

Resolving Obama's paradox – constructively meeting the abortion “clash of absolutes”