In 1970, President Nixon signed legislation lowering the minimum voting age to 18. Since that time, 18-year olds have accounted for 113 presidential votes, 84 of them for Jimmy Carter, 14 for Al Gore, 12 for John Kerry, and 1 each for write in candidates Kurt Cobain, Lynyrd Skynyrd (discounted), and “that guy from the Subway commercials, because I think he’d add a really cool fixin’s bar to Air Force

With a 4-3 victory over Roger Clemens this afternoon, the Colorado Rockies completed their 3-game sweep of the New York Yankees, increasing their record since late May to a major league best 20-7 and cooling off the American League’s hottest team before a Coors Field record crowd for a 3 game series. With the win, the Rockies have climbed to 4 games over .500 for the first time this season,

In one of his increasingly predictable rhetorical broadsides, Andrew Sullivan labels male circumcision “child abuse” — a claim that he should, by all rights, follow up with a call for the aggressive prosecution of mohels, surgeons, and the parents of those children who are being butchered either out of fidelity to religious ritual, habit, feints toward “normalization,” or controversial claims about hygiene and health. Sullivan’s point that ritual circumcision should

From ABC’s The Blotter: A satellite photograph obtained by ABC News reveals Pakistan is nearing completion of a third, previously unknown plutonium production reactor, suggesting Pakistan may be planning to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal. “With large stocks of plutonium, Pakistan can build a new generation of lighter, more powerful weapons that can more easily be launched via missiles and can cause far more damage,” said David Albright, the president

And that might be a good thing, insofar as it will draw clarifying lines that may — and I stress may — prove to reframe the War on Terror in a way that is far less nebulous, and that certainly is far less politically correct. I have, on various occasions, criticized President Bush — mildly — for an unwillingness to frame this war in a way that specifically identifies the

“…does that make any sense at all? We can’t even agree about what to call ourselves,” quips renowned progressive blogger Digby, speaking of what she calls “the netroots” to a netroots crowd that seems (counterintuitively, given her previous claim) to have little problem knowing exactly who she’s talking about. — But of course, none of what Digby argues (progressive bloggers have a wide variety of interests!) addresses the force of

It’s been brought to my attention that many of you are having trouble posting comments, for reasons beyond my pay grade. I’ve passed on your emails to the appropriate party; hopefully the problem will be rectified soon. Please bear with us. We’re young, we make mistakes, but our guidance counselor has insisted we have, like, scads, of potential… **** update: Looks like a lot of comments were getting caught both

Google Inc.’s YouTube, the most popular video-sharing Web Site, started local versions of the site in Brazil, Japan, the U.K., France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain — meaning that the opportunity to gawk at a designer shoe-clad Brazilian Ninja chick with crooked teeth, a dry sense of humor, and a love of of cheese, Guinness, hash brownies, and borscht, has increased by, like, 9000-fold, if my calculations are

St James Presbyterian Church in Littleton, CO wondered, “If you could ask God one question, what would it be?” — an exercise that drew hundreds of responses, most of them (sadly) quite predictable. Notes the Rocky Mountain News, “the 10 most-asked questions will be sermon grist for the next 10 Sundays.” The results: What’s my life all about? Why are some people healed and others not? Will you really forgive