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On St. Patrick's Day, everybody's Irish, right? That includes the candidates, two-thirds of whom have traceable Irish roots. (The other married Bill Clinton, who descends from the Irish, too.) But as Political Nanny likes to tell her charges, it doesn't matter where you came from as much...

In an effort to keep the campaign's thighs cute and chubby, Political Nanny is stirring some more substance into the election formula. Today's supplement: Paid Family Leave All three candidates support the Family Medical Leave Act. For John McCain, the law that allows workers up to 12 weeks of...

Coverage of the presidential campaign is increasingly anemic, coming down to, as usual, thin descriptions of polls and attacks. In areas of substance, where the Democrats are concerned, we only seem to hear about health care plans. Mix in the Republicans, and we're talking about Iraq. Both important...