POLICIES? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' POLICIES! The last two months or so have seen a great deal of debate over the policy differences, or lack thereof, between the major Democratic candidates. We've had learned analysis of the various Democrats' health care plans, poverty strategies, and, most recently, approaches to terrorism. Only now are the major media outlets starting to admit the democrats have concrete ideas. For example, Obama, we're told, only recently started to show some substance. Yet, by this standard, every major Republican candidate is about as substantial as tissue paper in a tornado.

ETHICS! In yet another rebuttal to claims the current Democratic congress isn't accomplishing anything the House today passed an ethics reform bill that closes a variety of loopholes in current law. It isn't revolutionary but it's progress. The Senate is expected to pass the bill by the end of the week. We should be concerned, however, because six of the eight nay's were Democrats, including John Murtha (full roll call here).

--Sam Boyd