Books, Articles, Letters Conyers, John, et al. What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. DeHaven-Smith, Lance. The Battle for Florida: An Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. DeHaven-Smith, Lance. Letter on the issue of election fraud. News […]

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Prix Fixe—Gas prices are falling, from $3 a gallon in August to a national average today of $2.23 for regular unleaded. Energy experts say the end of the Israel-Lebanon war, a milder than expected hurricane season and declining world oil prices are contributing factors. But the American people aren’t convinced that politics isn’t at play […]

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Compromised Principles—When is a compromise not a compromise? When one side gets almost everything it wants and the other is left high and dry. That’s what happened in the recent debate over the Bush administration’s “anti-terrorism” interrogation powers. On one side were a trio of Republican senators led by John McCain (R-AZ), who was in […]

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To say that this election could go either way is not to say that the Republicans have any chance of winning it. As a civic entity responsive to the voters’ will, the party’s over, there being no American majority that backs it, or that ever would. Bush has left the GOP in much the same […]

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Do-Nothing Congress—Our current Congress, upon returning to work after a five-week summer vacation, could follow the lead of Congresses past and whisk through a flurry of bills before leaving town for another month in the run-up to the November midterm elections. But if the last year is any indication, it won’t. The House of Representatives, […]

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