I am sure this will get me into a lot of hot water with those on the left. But so far so good with Barack Obama. I am not going to argue he's not going to make a good deal of mistakes along the way. W ...

I do not remember how old I as, but I remember as a child my mother mentioning to me with excitement that Raplh Nader was going to come to town. She described him as a consumer advocate who stood up t ...

While election day brought great news to many at both the national and the local level, it was not the perfect storm that some had hoped for on the Democratic side. There are in fact still a number of ...

The headline in the New York Times this morning, says it all really. I use the imagery intentionally because it highlights the divide in this country between the educated left and the Sara Palins in t ...

So tonight the Vanguard will be live blogging various election results from both around the country, the state, and locally. We hope to talk to local officials as results start coming in tonight. We w ...

Tomorrow we actually have some important local news that we have to cover, so today is going to be our wrap up of the election coverage from the past few days.So here's what we want to know today, pre ...

At the risk of trying to tie some otherwise disparate pieces of information together into a single blog entry, I will start by arguing that I find it curious the decisions made both by Jeff Reisig in ...

It seems that Joe Biden is not the only Democrat with a propensity to shoot his mouth off and say the exact wrong thing.A few weeks ago we castigated the Stockton Record for thinking so parochially in ...

Given the dynamics of this year, it would take a lot for us to have to cover to Congressional Race at all. Congressman Mike Thompson is a well-known and respected member of Congress in a safe district ...

Michele Bachmann appeared last week on Chris Matthews show as many have time and time before. And really, she said nothing that extraordinary. In fact, what she said has been said time and time before ...

There were rumors and speculation all week that Obama would get General Powell's endorsement, so it was not a tremendous surprised when that came to fruition. For the me the real surprise if you will, ...

Listening to my conservative friends, they are all up in arms about ACORN, arguing that this massive voter fraud will cast doubt on the current election.Presidential Candidate John McCain fanned those ...