flickr.com/photos/7305404@N06Led by Senator John McCain, whose obsession with earmarks knows no bounds, Republicans legislators are still raising a stink about that $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa. Some lawmakers, a number of whom have gone repeatedly to the trough themselves, can barely contain their glee as they denounce it as a prime example of pork.In Iowa, though, where 20 million pigs out-number humans by a margin of 8 to 1, the proposal -- all part of th
flickr.com/photos/amanda kay riley It is hardly breaking news to note that Republicans here and across the country have been shedding their party like a chrysalis for quite some time now. But what is extraordinary is the sheer volume of the desertion.
A new Gallup Poll shows that the precipitious decline in people who identify themselves as Republicans is shrinking among nearly every demographic group -- churchgoers, moderates, married people, older white voters, college graduate
