The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Bailouts and stimulus plans are failing to improve the economy. The causes of the recession continue to be explored.

Thomas Sowell: False Solutions and Real Problems
Thomas Sowell: Subsidizing Bad Decisions
Lew Rockwell: Beating Back Obamanomics
Thomas Woods: Unnatural Disaster
William Andersen: It Is Time to Admit the Obvious: The Political Classes Deliberately Are Blocking an Economic Recovery
Ron Paul: Is Spending the Answer?
Steve Sailer: Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.) Pay No Attention To That Diversity Mandate Behind The Curtain
Charles Scaliger: Shock & Awe Economics
Gary Benoit: The Inflation Tax
Kurt Williamsen: Economy Killers
William Hoar: Stimulating Government, Not the Economy

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government.

Patrick Krey: A Presidency Fit for a King
Warren Mass: Bill Would Give Feds Control Over Family Farms
Michelle Malkin: Look Beyond the Bogus Bonus Smokescreen
Terry Jeffrey: Obama's Deficit Charade
Chuck Baldwin: Romans 13 Revisited
Jack Kenny: Counting the Cost of the Census
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Stimulus
Edwin Vieira: Dangers of "Judicial Supremacy"
Robert Rector: Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform Successes
William Hoar: Social Security Sham
Chuck Baldwin: President And Congress Grovel Before The Fed
Ron Paul: Freedom From Government
Don Devine: Victims of Flight 1549?
Steve Sailer: So You Want To Boost The Economy? End Affirmative Action!
Brian Farmer: The Welfare State Is Really Socialism in Disguise

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Immigration

This update focuses on immigration. Before leaving office, President Bush commuted the sentences of Ramos and Compean, but refused to pardon them. The Senate refused to renew the E-Verify program.

Phyllis Schlafly: E-Verify Is a "Shovel-Ready" Solution
Pat Buchanan: Illegals To Get "Stimulus" Jobs? Left Cannot Survive E-Verify Sell-Out Of Unemployed Americans
Ernest Istook: Quiet Amnesty
Joe Guzzardi: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Rise And Immigration-Related Fall
William Jasper: Amnesty for Aliens (Including Terrorists) Who Serve in Military
Chuck Baldwin: Ramos And Compean Are Going Home. What Took Bush So Long?
Phil Kent: Illegal Immigration Battles Loom with Obama
Chelsea Schilling: Immigrants ravage U.S. infrastructure
Michelle Malkin: The State of Our Borders 2008
Steve Sailer: Sailer’s Next Big Idea: Immigration Brings Diversity Deduction—Not A Diversity Dividend

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

Sovereignty

This update focuses on sovereignty. The United Nations, European Union, and more theaten national sovereignty and promote world government.

William Jasper: The G20 Push to "Supersize" the IMF
Charles Scaliger: Agenda Behind Brown's "Global New Deal"
Willaim Jasper: LOST: Law of the Sea Treaty
Chelsea Schilling: United Nations' threat: No more parental rights
John McManus: EU Déjà Vu in the Caribbean
Chuck Baldwin: A Very Real New World Order
Chuck Baldwin: More On The New World Order
Kelly Taylor: Trans Texas Corridor Renamed, Not Dead
Jerome Corsi: Is the Trans-Texas Corridor dead?

More information:
United Nations: Eagle Forum: United Nations
North American Union: Eagle Forum Stop SPP
Trans-Texas Corridor: Corridor Watch

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. Liberals are mobilizing thanks to Barack Obama's election as President. There have been more revalations about Obama's political associations.

Phyllis Schlafly: Community Organizing Explained
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminists Expect to Cash in With Barack Obama
Michelle Malkin: Stimulus Slush Fund for Housing Entitlement Thugs
Selwyn Duke: That Thing Called Feminism
WorldNetDaily: Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Steve Sailer: Blagojevich, Obama, And The Diversity–Fueled "Chicago Way"
Donald Devine: Obama Bureaucracy Payoff
Thomas Sowell: Freedom and the Left

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Congress passed a "stimulus" spending bill that will make the economy worse.

Don Devine: Obama Hope or "Epic Ruin"?
Gary North: Get Out of the Euro
Steve Sailer: The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (cont.): Charting The CRA Crackup
Charles Scaliger: Parallels With the Great Depression
Ann Coulter: Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted
Mac Johnson: Obama’s Spendulus Does Not ‘Pump Money Into The Economy’
Larry Greenley: The Fed's Hockey Stick Chart
Thomas Woods: Washington and the Stimulus: A Parade of Blockheads
William Jasper: "Supersizing" the IMF

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Congress passed a "stimulus" spending bill that will make the economy worse.

Gary North: Fractional Reserves Have Wrecked the Fascist State
Mac Johnson: The Media's Favorite 'Untouchable'
Steve Sailer: The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.): How The Community Reinvestment Act Fits In
Thomas Sowell: What Are They Buying?
Ron Paul: Stimulus for Whom?
Gary North: How Bad Is the Crash?
Phyllis Schlafly: Barack's Bailout for Trial Lawyers
Walter Williams: Congress' Financial Mess
Ron Paul: Stimulating Our Way to Rock Bottom

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Global Warming

This update focuses on global warming. The global warming myth is collapsing, and more and more scientists are coming out against it. But the global warming fearmongers are continuing to push their big government agenda.

Ed Hiserodt: Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
Chris Horner: Media Muzzles Climate Change Debate
Ed Hiserodt: Carbon Dioxide a "Pollutant"?
William Jasper: Big Chills for Global-warming Alarmism
Chris Horner: It's Cold Outside, But Global Warming Industry Still Hard At Work
William Jasper: Heat or Cold: Which Is More Deadly?
Chris Horner: No Rush to New Kyoto?
William Jasper: Scientists Challenge Global Warming “Crisis”
Ed Hiserodt: Making Renewable Energy Practical

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Education

This update focuses on education. Bill Ayers and comrades are using schools to promote socialism. Heterodox views are punished harshly on campus, as illustrated by a recent controversy involving Walter Block.

Phyllis Schlafly: 'Social Justice': Code Word for Anti-Americanism
Education Reporter: 'Social Justice' Education is Already Shaping America's Future
Bill Costello: Where the Education Gender Gap is Leading America
Bill Andersen: Leftist Faculty, Duke, and Campus Realities
Thomas DiLorenzo: Thought Policing 101
Karen Effrem: Evidence of Academic or Emotional Harm of Preschool Education or All-Day Kindergarten
Phyllis Schlafly: Some Change Is a Big Improvement

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war. Another anniversary of Roe v. Wade has passed, and pro-abortion fanatics are ever more intent on restricting freedom. America's holidays are also under attack.

Don Devine: Merry Newspeak Freedom
Phyllis Schlafly: We Must Educate Leaders To Be Conservatives
Warren Mass: Faith Triumphs Over Persecution
John Eidsmoe: The War on Christmas
James Fulford: The War Against Thanksgiving
Ron Paul: Restricting Freedoms and Choices

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. Trouble continues in Israel, Somalia, India, and elsewhere.

Robert Spencer: Calling for Genocide In Your Neighborhood
Michael Economides: Russian Energy Imperialism
Ilana Mercer: Paleos Must Defend the West…And That Means Israel Too
Robert Maginnis: Stay Out of Somalia
Robert Maginnis: How Close Are We To War With Iran?
Thomas Sowell: The Meaning of Mumbai
Felix Moreno: Victim Disarmament at Sea
Gustavo Coronel: Hugo Chavez’s Bleak Political Future
William Hoar: North Korean Blackmail Beats the U.S. Blacklist
Pat Buchanan: China's Path to World Power
Don Devine: Congratulations General Odierno?

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. America's economic troubles continue as government bailouts only make the situation worse.

Kurt Williamson: Socialism's Success
Michael Telzrow: Socialism's Broken Promises
William Jasper: Bailout Mania!
Charles Scaliger: Bernanke's Money Maneuvers
Gary North: When Trust Runs Out
Alex Newman: Auto Bailout: Lemon or Lemonade?
Ron Paul: Government and Fraud
Walter Williams: Counterfeiting versus Monetary Policy
Ron Paul: Economic Freedom or Socialist Intervention?
Charles Scaliger: Bretton Woods
Gary North: Oldsmobile Nation
Pat Buchanan: In Earmarks Lies Salvation?
Will Grigg: Sovietizing the Economy: The Final Phase
Charles Scaliger: Free-market Thinkers

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government. Government is threatening freedom in the areas of civil liberties, health care, gun rights, and more.

Will Grigg: En Route to Military Rule
William Hoar: Bad Economics & Medicine
William Jasper: Asthma Sufferers Victimized by UN Ozone Madness
Phyllis Schlafly: Obama's Plan to Rejoin the World Community
William Jasper: Rooting for World Government
Phyllis Schlafly: Con Con Is a Terrible Idea
Gun Owners of America: End Of The Year Report
Phyllis Schlafly: "The Doctor Will See All of You Now"
Ron Paul: Gun Control: Protecting Terrorists and Despots
Robert Higgs: Let's Check Marx and Engels's List
Edwin Viera: Bedrock of the Constitution
Edward Rubenstien: The High Cost of Diversity—Due To Go Up Under Obama
William Hoar: Mental-health Parity's Poison Pill
William Jasper: Bush Pushes Foreign Aid, Despite Economic Woes
Laurence Vance: The Flat Tax Is Not Flat
Edwin Viera: Hazards for Habeas Corpus

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Best Articles of 2008

It is time for the best articles of 2008. These articles were selected from roughly 10,000 articles this year. More than 400 articles appeared in this year's 52 POLITICAL UPDATES.

Energy/environmentalism was the most frequent topic, inspiring five updates. Tied for second were the culture war, government, news from abroad, immigration, education, and the economy with four each. What follows are my choices, in chronological order, for the nineteen most important news or opinion pieces of 2007.

William Jasper: Bailout Mania!
Eric Englund: Environmentalism Is Racism
Warren Mass: KAL Flight 007 Remembered
Steve Sailer: Freddie Mac’s Richard Syron—Architect Of The “Diversity Recession”
Gregory Hession: Restraining Orders Out of Control
Dennis Behreandt: Transatlantic Two-Step
Dave Workman: Kansas tornado produces gun rights bill
Peter Brimelow: “Immigration Is The Viagra Of The State”—A Libertarian Case Against Immigration
Lew Rockwell: What If Public Schools Were Abolished?
Walter Williams: Environmentalists' Wild Predictions
James Fulford: Civil Rights Law Doesn’t Care If You Die
Pat Buchanan: Whites Down To 10% Of World Population By 2060— Does It Matter?
William Jasper: A Bad Investment
Arthur Robinson: Nobel Prize for Death
Phyllis Schlafly: North American Union: It's the real deal
Thomas Kilgannon: The Supreme Court Stands Alone
Heather MacDonald: The Campus Rape Myth
Susan Easton: The EU's Treaty Treachery
Terry Jeffrey: Your $455,000 Loan to Uncle Sam

Previous:
Best of 2007
Best of 2006
Best of 2005

Marriage

This update focuses on marriage. Marriage amendments passed in California, Arizona, and Florida on election day. Homosexuals in California responded with rage, threats, and intimidation. The relationship site eHarmony.com has been forced to offer same-sex dating by an "anti-discrimination" lawsuit.

Michelle Malkin: Gay Mob Shakes Down eHarmony
Michelle Malkin: The Insane Rage of the Same-Sex Marriage Mob
Thomas Sowell: The Right To Win
Jennifer Morse: Same-Sex Marriage and the Persecution of Civil Society
Gary Bauer: Same-Sex Movement Demands Tolerance But Won't Show Any

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Immigration

This update focuses on immigration. America's immigration problems continue. Agents Ramos and Compean are still unjustly in jail.

Dana Rohrabacher: Mr. President, Free the Border Agents
Joe Guzzardi: “Legal Immigration” Too Often Means Fraud—And Fraud Is Illegal
Brenda Walker: Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also… Witchcraft, Imported By Immigration. (And, Yes, From Obama’s Kenya Too)
Brenda Walker: Mexico Meltdown Approaches Warp Speed
Craig Nelsen: Vilifying E-Verify—The ACLU's Campaign To Break The Only Unbroken Part Of Our Broken Immigration System

For more on immigration, see VDARE.com.

Conservatism

This update focuses on conservatism. The 2008 election has provoked many thoughts on the future of the conservative movement.

Phyllis Schlafly: Where Do We Go From Here?
Phyllis Schlafly: Time to Follow Reagan's Example
Don Devine: Conservative Counter Attack
Phyllis Schlafly: Where Did the Reagan Votes Go in the 2008 Election?
Steve Sailer: We’ve Got Karl Rove to Kick Around Some More!
Mac Johnson: GOP, Avoid A 2008 Repeat
David Keene: Obama Will Overreach and We Will Bounce Back
Steve Sailer: GOP Can Play By "McCain Rules" And Lose, Or "Sailer Rules" And Win
Tom Piatak: Pat Buchanan At 70: “He Told You So, You F****ing Fools!”
Warren Mass and William Jasper: McCain: Maverick?

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Economic troubles continue, and government bailouts continue to fail. The 'big three' automakers are in big trouble. Elites held a summit to discuss a global currency.

Ron Paul: The Neo-Alchemy of the Federal Reserve
Gary North: Bernanke's the Dollar Destroyer
Ron Paul: The Bailout Surge
Pat Buchanan: Who Killed Detroit?
Ross Kamisky: Paulson's Ever-Changing Bailout
Charles Scaliger: Looking Beyond the Global Economic Summit
Charles Scaliger: In a Free Market, Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
Michelle Malkin: The Paulson Putsch: Time For A Fiscal-Conservative Counterinsurgency
Pat Buchanan: Bretton Woods II—No Way
Charles Scaliger: Upcoming Financial Summit About Global Governance
Ron Paul: The Moral Hazard of Regulation
Ron Paul: Spending the Economy into Oblivion

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Liberalism

This update focuses on liberalism. Barack Obama has extensive ties to communist terrorist Bill Ayers. Liberalism has an ignoble history. Unions want to take away secret ballots for union elections.

John McManus: Behind the Obama Agenda
William Jasper: Ukrainian Genocide: NY Times Still Covering Up
Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals
Phyllis Schlafly: The Catholic Connection to Barack Obama
John Lott: Workers, Be Wary
William Jasper: Terrorist Bill Ayers Misrepresents His Past
William Jasper: Obama's Friend Ayers: Kill 25 Million Americans
William Jasper: Obama's Terrorist Ties and Radical Roots
Brian Johnson: Joe the Non-Union Worker
Michael New: Conservatives Have New History of American Left

Much information on liberal individuals and organizations can be found at David Horowitz's Discover the Network site.

Environmentalism

This update focuses on environmentalism. Gas prices have dropped to below two dollars per gallon. Environmentalists continue to promote the global warming myth. New resources counter their claims.

Cynthia Grenier: Red Hot Lies About Global Warming
Ed Hiserodt: Liberty From Global-warming Alarmism
AWR Hawkins: We Cannot Worship Nature and Remain Free
Bill Anderson: Sustainable Fascism
Alex Newman: A Convenient Book About the Environment
Chris Horner: Attack of the Energy-Rationers
Eric Englund: Environmentalism Is Racism
Floy Lilley: The Fraud of Global Warming

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Education

This update focuses on education. Barack Obama's associate Bill Ayers has radical plans for American education. Obama and the NEA promise to push education further to the left. Racial preferences continue to hurt minorities.

Education Reporter: McCain Hits Obama's Sex Ed Bill
Phyllis Schlafly: Teaching "Social Justice" in Schools
Ann Coulter: Ayers: Radical Loon When Obama Was Only 47
Cooper Sterling: Beyond ‘Taco Night’: Barack Obama And The Frightening Future of "Critical Multicultural Education"
Phyllis Schlafly: Bill Ayers's Scary Plans for Public Schools
Samuel Blumenfeld: Pavlov's Dogs and American Education
Walter Williams: Academic Mismatch I
Walter Williams: Academic Mismatch II
Education Reporter: Some NEA Resolutions Passed at the 2008 Convention in Washington, D.C.

Learn more about education issues in Education Reporter.

Election 2008

This update focuses on election 2008. These articles discuss the results of the 2008 election, what caused them, and what to do now.

Tim Carney: ENPR: Election Results
Tom Tancredo: Republican Lessons at the End of the Bush-McCain Era
Deroy Murdock: GOP Needs Night of Long Knives
Michael Reagan: Why McCain Lost
Ann Coulter: The Reign of Lame Falls Mainly on McCain
Chuck Baldwin: Conservatives Lost More Than An Election
Pat Buchanan: An Unnecessary Defeat?
Donald Devine: Who Plays Herbert Hoover?
Gun Owners of America: Gun Rights in Peril
Will Grigg: Why Obama Will Be Worse Than Bush
Marcus Epstien: Election 2008: There's Got To Be A Pony In Here Somewhere!
Steve Sailer: Immigration, Affirmative Action, Bucking The Bailout - All Potential Election Winners For McCain

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. The fallout from the massive trillion-dollar government bailout continues. The causes of our economic problems continue to be probed.

Terry Jeffrey: Will Government Give Up Ownership in the Banks?
William Jasper: From Henry Morgenthau to Henry Paulson
Gary North: The Smashing of Dreams Is Not Over
George Reisman: The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Financial Crisis
Ron Paul: Spending the Economy into Oblivion
Thomas DiLorenzo: How Crackpot Egalitarianism Caused the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
Terry Jeffrey: The Price of Banking on Government
Ernest Istook: Democrats Behind CRA Cover-Up
Gary North: Keynesianism's Last Stand

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

News from Abroad

This update focuses on news from abroad. During election season, events continue to unfold in China, Pakistan, and elsewhere. The United Nations continues to be an enemy of American sovereignty.

Oliver North: The Secret War on the Dollar
Phyllis Schlafly: China Poisons Its Infant Formula
John McManus: Behind the Olympic News
Nima Sanandaji: Swedish Welfare
Robert Spencer: After Musharraf, the Deluge

Brian Darling: U.S. Shouldn’t Be Supporting ICC
Larry Kilgannon: Voting Practices at the United Nations
Jerome Corsi: North American Union: The dream 'is dead'

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Culture War

This update focuses on the culture war. The 2008 election campaign is well underway. Cultural battles continue in party conventions, courts, movies, academia, and more.

Phyllis Schlafly: Contrasting the Party Platforms
Phyllis Schlafly: Feminists against Palin - shame on you
James Fulford: “Guilty As Hell, Free As A Bird”—Ayers, Obama, And The Exclusionary Rule
William Jasper: From Homosexual Marriage to Bestiality
Thomas Sowell: The Vision of the Left
Phyllis Schlafly: Title IX Tied Our Hands at Olympics
William Jasper: Recreating Riots
Thomas Sowell: Amateurs Outdoing Professionals
Phyllis Schlaly: One Brave Judge Resists Feminist Agenda
Allan Ryskind: Hollywood Still Loves Very Red Dalton Trumbo
Don Devine: Old Right War Lessons

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. The stock market plunged significantly in recent weeks. The government passed a bailout bill that may cost 700 billion to one trillion dollars. This failed to stabilize the market.

Gary Wolfram: Econ 101: The Financial Crisis and Danger of Government Intervention
Don Devine: End of Capitalism?
John Stossel: Try Free Enterprise
Walter Williams: Lessons From the Bailout
Ron Paul: The Do-Something Congress
Gary North: The Month When Reality Invaded
Michelle Malkin: Dear Congress: Put the Gun Down Now
Steve Sailer: America’s Minority Mortgage Meltdown/ Diversity Recession: The Smoking Gun?
Steve Sailer: Karl Rove—Architect Of The Minority Mortgage Meltdown
Thomas Sowell: Bailout Politics
Ron Paul: Lipstick on a Bailout

See also:
The Recession Reader
The Bailout Reader

Government

This update focuses on government. Government continues to cause much harm in many areas. Discussion of the DC gun case continues.

Walter Williams: Destroying Liberty
William Jasper: Turn Off the TV, Dust Off the Constitution
Gary North: The Cause of Gasoline Shortages
Brian Farmer: I.O.U.S.A. How Much?!
Becky Akers: The Tragedy of the Commons
Mac Johnson: Live Free and Die
Alex Newman: Examining Healthcare
Don Devine: Small Government Failure?
Ron Paul: Freedom is Golden
Larry Elder: Why Do We 'Keep and Bear Arms'? Part 1
Larry Elder: Why Do We "Keep and Bear Arms"? Part 2
Phyllis Schlafly: Lessons of The Gun Decision

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

The Economy

This update focuses on the economy. Financial firms including Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, and Washington Mutual have gone bankrupt, been bailed out, or been bought out. This economic crisis was precipitated by the collapse of the housing bubble, which was caused by the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and government regulations. The government is now proposing a 700 billion dollar bailout of bad lenders.

Ann Coulter: They Gave Your Mortgage to a Less Qualified Minority
Mac Johnson: Bailout: Far Worse than a Recession
Brian Farmer: Government Bailout
Takuan Seiyo: The Case Of The Disappeared Subprime Minority Borrower
Thomas Sowell: A Political "Solution"
Michelle Malkin: Illegal Immigration And The Mortgage Mess
Steve Sailer: The Diversity Recession: What Was The Financial (And Political) Establishment Thinking?
Mark Skousen: Are We Headed Toward a New Collectivist State?
Gary North: Still in the Stock Market?
Ron Paul: In Government We Trust? Part 3
Lew Rockwell: The Social Imperative of Sound Money
Gary North: Subsidy Madness and Depression
Will Grigg: The Denouement
Ron Paul: In Government We Trust? Part 2
Gary North: The Bloom Is Off the Housing Rose

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Russia

This update focuses on Russia. Russia recently invaded the country of Georgia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn recently passed away. Russia's authoritarian government menaces its neighbors. It must be dealt with cautiously.

Robert Maginnis: Russia's New World Order
William Lind: Defending the Baltics
Don Devine: Russia Realities
Warren Mass: KAL Flight 007 Remembered
Warren Mass: Solzhenitsyn Passes Away
Charlie Reese: A Giant Is Lost
Pat Buchanan: Why Do Chinese, Russians, Like Their Governments So Much?

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.

Energy

This update focuses on energy. Liberals continue to thwart energy production and promote red herrings on this subject. T Boone Pickens has proposed a plan to give billions of taxpayers' dollars to T. Boone Pickens.

Dan Kish: Who’s Hoarding America’s Oil?
Chris Horner: The Lawnmower Police are Coming
Arthur Robinson: Easy Pickens
Michelle Malkin: Pelosi and the Big Wind Boone-doggle
Ed Hiserodt: Algae May Be an Energy Answer
Walter Williams: Environmentalists' Hold on Congress
Steve Forbes: Oil and the Feeble Greenback
Deroy Murdock: Offshore Oil Drilling: Cleaner than Mother Nature
Ross Kamisky: Oil Economics for Liberals
Paul Driessen: Blowing Hot Air Up Our Shorts

POLITICAL UPDATES are archived here.