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Senator Arlen Specter is switching to the Democratic Party, CNN reports. Faced with a tough primary challenge by Club for Growth leader Pat Toomey and frequently targeted by conservative activists for his moderate departures from the party line, Specter is switching parties and is going run for re-election...

1914 – 2009 Google News only returns one story about the passing of Frankie Manning this morning, but his devotees spread the sad news on Facebook and Twitter throughout the day.  Even though we knew he had been in the hospital with pneumonia for the past ten days, and had suffered a fall last...

A recent Washington Post poll indicates that the number of self-identifying Republicans is shrinking. Only 21% of Americans consider themselves Republican, down from 25% last month and the lowest since 1983. “In that same poll, 35 percent self-identified as Democrats and 38 percent called them...

When one thinks of senior Indiana senator Richard Lugar, quite a number of adjectives come to mind. For me, “Statesman” is probably the most appropriate. But Esquire magazine’s list of “66 guys to emulate” puts it another way: Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is one of “66...

American Thinker offers a reminder that polls should be taken with a grain of salt, at least when twice as many Democrats are polled as Republicans.

As I noted a little over two years ago here before, traffic laws can kill. A number of studies have indicated that raising or lowering speed limits does little to alter vehicle accidents. Here’s part of that previous post: As it turns out, a sort of “roadway democracy” seems to offer the best...

Josh Miller, a Catholic seminarian and long-time blogger, will be guest contributing to In The Agora. Josh is currently attending seminary near Chicago. He previously studied philosophical & theological studies at Conception Seminary College and before that studied English literature at the University...

Today is Earth Day, a day in which many right wingers of my acquaintance make jokes about idling cars, clear cutting forests, and having spotted owls for dinner. This attitude towards the environment though is born more out of political animosity towards greens than actual hatred for our planet. Bill...