DC Goes to Obama

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I have no idea whether either Obama or Clinton promised to secure real voting rights for residents of the District of Columbia — but if it hasn’t come up, someone better get it on the to do list if a Dem wins the White House.

Bursting the John Bolton as Secretary of State Bubble

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Mike Boyer over at Foreign Policy Magazine‘s Passport blog just offered a number of sensible reasons why John Bolton probably would not be appointed by a President McCain to serve as Secretary of State. Boyer is right on the whole — though he need not worry about classifying Bolton as a neocon. He is not….

Maryland Polls to Stay Open For An Extended 90 Minutes

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Weather in Maryland is very bad right now. Bridges are shut down all around Baltimore, Annapolis, Chestertown, and the broader Eastern Shore. So the State of Maryland where I occasionally reside has decided to get CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other network pundits some overtime pay by keeping the polls open an extended 90 minutes.

The Potomac Primaries

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Like some of these folks mentioned on Washington Metroblogging, I am a registered Independent — so I didn’t get to take part in the voting activity that took place today in DC’s closed primary.

Did John McCain Get a Tilt in the al Qaeda Trials?

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So after years and years of doing nothing with the detainees at Guantanamo, the Bush administration decides to launch the “al Qaeda trials” — which the administration is comparing to Nuremberg — during this stretch of the political campaign season.

More on Superdelegates

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I tend to disagree with Scott Paul below about the role of superdelegates in this year’s contest. Reform and redirection of the process may make sense for the future — but once the gun went off this year, my view is that you leave the structure as it was when the race began.

New Data Map Bolsters Case for Law of the Sea

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NOAA has just gathered new mapping data in the Arctic. As expected, there’s a wealth of minerals and resources up there that should be under U.S. control but won’t be until we ratify the Law of the Sea Convention. In fact, the new data suggests that the U.S.