The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to involve itself in the question of whether evidence the FBI seized from the Congressional Office of Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) can be used when Jefferson is tried on corruption charges later this year.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Monday let stand [...]
Moving forward with plans to eventually create individual blogs for all current main page posters, I have created the following blogs as the next wave:
These three members now have permissions to post in their own blogs rather than the community blog. All [...]
Well, it's pretty much all over but the shouting now folks.
Seriously I find it sort of ironic that right after I write about how little movement there has been within the Superdelegate ranks, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Bob Casey both came out for Obama. And there are now [...]
The government welcomed the move, which followed intense negotiations by Shiite officials, including two lawmakers who reportedly [...]
Looks like the switch over to the new virtual personal server (VPS) was made last night. If you havn't experienced any downtime, I wouldn't expect any from here on out. It does looks like we lost a few comments and info from the past day or so, but nothing too [...]
Now we can argue all day long about Hillary's chances of winning the nomination this year. We can debate until we are blue in the face how much the extended nomination process is really hurting the Party. But even those who might make arguments in favor of Hillary staying in [...]
Over the past couple of weeks there has been little or no movement with the Superdelegates in terms of new commitments. Over the past two weeks Obama has gained 7 Superdelegates, lost 2 Superdelegates for a net gain of 5... while Hillary has gained a whopping grand total of 2 [...]
Fighting has erupted in Iraq between government forces and Moqtaqa al-Sadr's Mahdi Army as government forces attempt to wrest control of Basra away from al-Sadr. Clashes have spread to Baghdad and other cities, and large street protests against the government are occurring in Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad sympathetic to [...]
This is a funny post I ran across originally posted on 11/17/06 when I first started gearing up for the 2008 election. Of course it wasn't designed to be funny at the time and it's only really funny today because it tells you exactly how quickly things can change in [...]
Presentation by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans cancelled after anti-war sociopaths threaten to protest:
A national tour featuring decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won't be stopping at Forest Lake Area High School today as planned, after school leaders abruptly canceled the visit.
Steve Massey, the school principal, [...]
Just a bit of a warning.
I have made the decision (or perhaps the better way to explain it was that the decision was sort of forced on me) to upgrade to a virtual personal server (VPS) to handle the increase of "activity" on the website. In this case it [...]
Go to the Powerline blog and you will see a little banner proclaiming that they are proud friends of Israel. At least one of the writers on that blog (Paul Mirengoff) is jewish, as are plenty of your neo-conservative bloggers. If you want to look to the more mainstream [...]
Well I guess the short answer to this is "maybe". Heck, I might even go so far as to say that the short answer is "yes". More importantly, I can actually say this without believing that it is some earth shattering revelation.
Here is the [...]
Surprisingly, it's not Ron Paul who's switched parties. Firstread is reporting that Mike Gravel has changed his party registration from Democratic to Libertarian and plans to continue his longshot campaign by pursuing the Libertarian Party's nomination.
I admit I wasn't paying a lot of attention to Gravel during his early [...]
Tip of the day is a new feature that I will use for the next couple of weeks in an attempt to help readers take advantage of some of the newer features that is included on the upgraded blog.
For those of you who miss the sidebar [...]
First... if you want to add links - click on the link button (where the arrow is pointing). It will bring up a new box where you can paste your link. When you click on the check o.k. button it will bring the [...]
Did she spend Xmas in Cambodia too?
Is it just me, or do both the Democratic candidates appear to be going in the wrong direction? Just when the Jeremiah Wright controversy seems to be fading, we get another psuedo controversy from the other candidate.
Meanwhile, John (notice the simple first name) [...]
You may or may not have to log back in to change your status from visitor to member. There are certain features that you will see as a member that you do not see as a visitor.
With the ability to "move categories" - I am able to rearrange, split, and [...]
There are some benefits and drawbacks to the new blog. Consider the skin sort of a work in progress. A few features I would like to point out.
1) On the first of the sidebars on the right you will see some links - click on the latest comment and I [...]
There have been news stories for a week or more trumpeting the fact that U.S. military deaths in Iraq were approaching 4,000, and with the deaths of four soldiers in a Baghdad attack today there's a new wave of stories noting that this "grim milestone" has been reached. What [...]
There have been news stories for a week or more trumpeting the fact that U.S. military deaths in Iraq were approaching 4,000, and with the deaths of four soldiers in a Baghdad attack today there's a new wave of stories noting that this "grim milestone" has been reached. What [...]
Already the media is prepared to pounce on the American public for being afraid to elect a black man as President should Barack Obama fail to win the general election. But if he loses, it won't be about his race. Simply stated, this point in time I am quite simply [...]
Already the media is prepared to pounce on the American public for being afraid to elect a black man as President should Barack Obama fail to win the general election. But if he loses, it won't be about his race. Simply stated, this point in time I am quite simply [...]
An unidentified and as yet undeclared Super delegate to the Democratic convention has started a blog (Tedski at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion writes that he knows who it is but is sworn to secrecy, except to say that it is someone not from Arizona) to write what his [...]
An unidentified and as yet undeclared Super delegate to the Democratic convention has started a blog (Tedski at Rum, Romanism and Rebellion writes that he knows who it is but is sworn to secrecy, except to say that it is someone not from Arizona) to write what his [...]
There are a couple of polls taken this past week on the New Hampshire Senate race showing Democrat Jeanne Shaheen leading incumbent Republican John Sununu. The earlier poll, from American Research Group, shows Shaheen with 47% support to Sununu's 33% support, while the later poll, from Rasmussen, shows [...]
There are a couple of polls taken this past week on the New Hampshire Senate race showing Democrat Jeanne Shaheen leading incumbent Republican John Sununu. The earlier poll, from American Research Group, shows Shaheen with 47% support to Sununu's 33% support, while the later poll, from Rasmussen, shows [...]
is apparently the official excuse from the State Department for why two of their contract worker went nosing around in Barack Obama's passport application.
The Obama campaign declared it "an outrageous breach of security".
I think I might describe it as somewhere in the middle of these two descriptions.
Look folks, these employees [...]
is apparently the official excuse from the State Department for why two of their contract worker went nosing around in Barack Obama's passport application.
The Obama campaign declared it "an outrageous breach of security".
I think I might describe it as somewhere in the middle of these two descriptions.
Look folks, these employees [...]
Republican Tom Reynolds of New York's 26th congressional district today announced that he would not seek a sixth term this fall, leaving Republicans with another open seat to defend in a competitive district. Reynolds had looked to have a much easier time of it this year than he did [...]
Republican Tom Reynolds of New York's 26th congressional district today announced that he would not seek a sixth term this fall, leaving Republicans with another open seat to defend in a competitive district. Reynolds had looked to have a much easier time of it this year than he did [...]
...Because I'm tired of waiting for thread of 200+ posts to load on my crappy dialup connection, and I'm tired of scrolling down through said 200+ posts.
Good morning, and God Damn Obama.
[...]...Because I'm tired of waiting for thread of 200+ posts to load on my crappy dialup connection, and I'm tired of scrolling down through said 200+ posts.
Good morning, and God Damn Obama.
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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While Obama still shows a small lead in my CCPA (weighted averages) the polls are definitely moving away from him. Both of the daily tracking polls show McCain opening up a lead and a recent Zogby poll showing Nader in the race shows McCain up [...]
While Obama still shows a small lead in my CCPA (weighted averages) the polls are definitely moving away from him. Both of the daily tracking polls show McCain opening up a lead and a recent Zogby poll showing Nader in the race shows McCain up [...]
In the past few days, much has been said on the extreme leftist side about how conservatives and Republicans would have rejected Obama's attempts to defuse the Wright controversy no matter what explanation he offered. They claim we would have thought less of him if he defended Wright, and that [...]
In the past few days, much has been said on the extreme leftist side about how conservatives and Republicans would have rejected Obama's attempts to defuse the Wright controversy no matter what explanation he offered. They claim we would have thought less of him if he defended Wright, and that [...]
One of the phrases I have heard several times in the brouhaha over Senator Obama's association with Reverend Wright is "Black Liberation Theology." I had to wonder if it was any different than good old Marxist based Liberation Theology that was perhaps THE seminal world view of people like the [...]
One of the phrases I have heard several times in the brouhaha over Senator Obama's association with Reverend Wright is "Black Liberation Theology." I had to wonder if it was any different than good old Marxist based Liberation Theology that was perhaps THE seminal world view of people like the [...]
at least according to the politico... No Florida redo and now no Michigan redo. I think in some ways both candidates are pleased.
[...]at least according to the politico... No Florida redo and now no Michigan redo. I think in some ways both candidates are pleased.
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
[...]Take a look and give me some feedback - keep in mind that this is a work in progress at this point in time. Think in terms of "potential".
[...]The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of [...]
The problem was not just a down server, but an actual server problem caused by an overload of one particular site on the server... which of course unfortunately is Coldheartedtruth. The issue is not so much in bandwidth as it is with my large percentage of CPU which is used [...]
I'll give him credit for taking this one head on. He isn't walking away from Jeremiah Wright or the church. In fact, in many ways he worked overtime in the speech to attempt to somehow justify the comments that he also claims to condemn. Certainly the tone of the speech [...]
Like an ostrich burying his head in the sand, many Democratic talking heads are trying to play the recent Obama church controversy as much ado about nothing. If you watched any of the political talk shows over the weekend you saw the pattern develop. First is to agree that what [...]
The top 100 political donors of the 2008 election cycle are listed in OpenSecrets.org . First, note how few of these big donors lean Republican: only 12 of the top 100. And the higher up the list (the bigger the donor), the fewer lean Republican. In fact, none of the [...]
All indications are that Michigan "might" hold a do-over sometime at the beginning of June, but that Florida will not.
The possible Michigan do-over appears to be headed for sometime in early June and would hypothetially be funded by private donations. The plan at this point is to hold some sort [...]
Zogby Poll: McCain Bests Both Obama, Clinton in 3-Way General Election Tests
The introduction of long-time activist Ralph Nader into the mix is having an effect on the race, as he wins enough support to make a difference, the poll shows. Nader entered the race recently, charging that there is [...]
Republican Incumbent Norm Coleman defeats any of his 3 remaining DFL challengers in an election for U.S. Senator from Minnesota today, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KSTP-TV Minneapolis. Today, it's Coleman 51%, comedian Al Franken 41%. When the DFL candidate [...]
I was looking at some of the polling over the weekend and noticed a fairly significant movement for John McCain in both the Rasmussen and Gallup daily tracking numbers. It would certainly appear as though this might have some correlation with the recent bad publicity that Obama has received over [...]
I'm sure this wasn't what Bear Stearns shareholders were worried about when they considered what might happen to them in a bear market. The investment firm, whose stock closd above $57 last Thursday, was purchased by JP Morgan Chase over the weekend for the whopping total of $2 a share [...]
Barack Obama improved his expected number of delegates in Iowa in the second round of voting in that state as county conventions selected delegates for the next round of voting. If all of today's selected delegates maintain today's allegiances at later stages, Obama would win 23 of Iowa's 45 [...]
Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell has announced that he will challenge Don Young, Alaska's lone House member, in the Republican primary this August. Young is under investigation by the Justice Department and polling has indicated he would have a difficult time in the fall election despite what appears to [...]
AL-05 Representative Bud Cramer surprised his colleagues today by announcing that he will not seek reelection to a tenth term this fall. Cramer, a Democrat, was considered a lock in this district where Bush won 60% of the vote in 2004, but it will be extremely difficult for the [...]
"We believe that [the Pennsylvania primary result] will show that Hillary is ready to win, and that Sen. Obama really can’t win the general election."
So it's becoming more and more clear that the Clinton strategy will be to tear down Obama to the point where people start to see him [...]
This really isn't much of a question for the Republicans or for the Democrats. I suspect that both sides would look at this as sort of a wash. John McCain might lose a few Republicans over the war while Barack Obama might lose a few Democrats. [...]
Washington Post op-ed columnist Michael Gerson undertakes a thought experimenton foreign policy stupidity during a hypothetical President Obama's first 100 days in office, and its implications for geopolitics and international relations:
Redeeming his inaugural pledge to "pay any price, bear any burden, fly any distance to meet with our enemies," [...]
Hillary Clinton (correctly) argues that she is the only candidate experienced enough to handle a 3:00 AM phone call to the White House. Obama has tried to claim that he has superior judgment that would render him for capable of handling the 3:00 AM phone call. Hillary Clinton's experience is [...]
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[...]Well I am now up to date with pledged delegates after AP reported the final delegate count from Colorado (which had been holding back 10 delegates). As it stands I have at least three sources for every state except Ohio/Texas (two sources), and Colorado/Democrats Abroad (1 source). There are also [...]
I was reading a post today in the Left Coaster where eriposte suggests that the Obama camp is being unfair by trying to bring up the whole Whitewater affair again. Apparently keeping with a major theme of the Clinton supporters out there, Obama is stooping to another "right wing" [...]
Would he be in the same place right now if he was a 46 year old first term senator who happened to be White? Perhaps if he was David Vitter from Louisiana, the 46 year old Jr Senator who happens to be White?
Now it could be that Obama is such [...]
Mitt Romney made comments yesterday that sound to me as if he's trying to get the vice presidential nomination in Minneapolis this summer. Frankly, given the clear distaste visible between Romney and John McCain during the primaries and Romney's weak bargaining position I don't see a McCain-Romney ticket happening.
[...]The FBI defines Terrorism as the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
The September 11, 2001 attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States involved nineteen terrorists who [...]
According to reports earlier today Florida was signaling that they were ready to move forward with a mail in primary vote to replace the earlier vote that didn't count.
But since that report, we have seen other reports pretty much putting the kibosh on all of that. Not only is the [...]
New York Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to announce his resignation at a news conference in an hour or so, news sources report.
Update It's official. Spitzer's resignation becomes effective Monday, when he will be succeeded by Lt. Gov. David Patterson. Patterson will be the first black governor of [...]
Democrat André Carson yesterday won the open congressional seat vacated by his grandmother's death in a special election in Indiana's 7th district, defeating Republican Jon Elrod and Libertarian Sean Shepard. I haven't seen final vote totals but Carson led Elrod by 9% with about 75% of the votes in when [...]
Obama continued his dominance in the southern states with a 61%-37% win over Hillary Clinton. With 99% reporting he added almost 100,000 votes to his popular vote lead and appears to have won 19 of the 33 delegates (which would net him 5 on Clinton).
Those trying to figure out [...]
From CQPolitics:
Democrat Mike Ciresi announced Monday he was terminating his campaign for Minnesota’s Senate race, clearing the path for former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken to win the party’s endorsement and take on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in November.
Ciresi said he was withdrawing to prevent a divisive contest. [...]
Yeah... I know, this isn't exactly a new idea, but I couldn't resist!
My Caption: "Time Magazine awards Two New Yorkers as being most likely to succeed in 2008"
[...]I spent a bit of time today looking through the "The Green Papers" and creating a little spreadsheet showing which states still have uncommitted superdelegates and how many are in each state. Now, granted, "The Green Pages" has slightly different numbers than the source I use, but they are with [...]
"First of all, with all due respect, I've won twice as many states as Senator Clinton. I've won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton, I have more delegates than Senator Clinton. So, I don't know how somebody who's in second place is offering the vice presidency to somebody [...]
We who regularly read, comment, post or otherwise participate in politically oriented weblogs are in a fairly small, but presumably growing minority. So says Harris Interactive.
I say read, post or comment on!
[...]Believe it or not, but there is a primary tomorrow starring the great state of Mississippi. At stake is another 33 precious delegates.
Obama is expected to win this state and Hillary is hoping to win her fair share of the delegates. The funny thing is that if Obama would [...]
Exactly how he's linked hasn't been revealed, but New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to make an announcement this afternoon related to the matter.
If his links aren't just as a client, then his career is over (and potentially his freedom). And if he was a client then he's [...]
A little update on the congressional subpoena vs executive privilege lawsuit that Pelosi and gang were planning on filing. Well, apparently they did file a suit and the case landed in the lap of Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
I would [...]
Watching the media pundits argue about who will win the Democratic nomination it occurred to me that many of these people are actually terribly misinformed and have serious problems with logical thought process. One would think if what you do for a living is discuss politics on national television that [...]
Democrat Bill Foster has defeated Republican Jim Oberweiss in the special election to determine a successor to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the AP projects. With more than 95% of precincts reporting Foster leads Oberweiss 52%-48% and holds a lead of 4,600 votes.
The two will face off again in [...]
Certainly if Obama could battle [...]
No checkmarks or calls at this point... but with 78% reporting Obama has a relatively comfortable 19 point lead in the Wyoming Caucus. According to the math it would appear that Obama will win 7 of the 12 pledged delegates for a net gain of 2.
Not that this makes [...]
Critics of John McCain--most of them Democratic Congressmen or Senators--have a new source of ire. It seems, according to these folks, that Senator McCain singlehandedly delivered the Air Force tanker deal to a foreign company, and with it 44,000 jobs.
Of course, if you read the entire article, the facts [...]
Clinton said, "I've had people say, 'Well I wish I could vote for both of you. Well, that might be possible some day. But first I need your vote on Tuesday."
If I am reading this right... she is saying that it may be possible to have a Clinton/Obama ticket, [...]
The buzz is heating up that Florida and Michigan may end up having some form of "do-over" contests that would take place possibly in June. Apparently neither candidate is 100% enthusiastic about this. Obama would obviously prefer that the DNC simply ignore those two states for breaking the rules. Anything [...]
There's been a lot of discussion about 2008 party nominees "rewriting the map" electorally, shaking up the red-blue divisions that have dominated the last two elections and were coming into place for several elections prior to that. SurveyUSA has released the results of a state-by-state survey of potential fall election [...]
“Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready,'’ Ms. Rice said. “They’re both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone call.”
Susan Rice, Obama Foreign Policy Advisor
Fire up that "dream ticket!"
[...]Reading a lot of this nonsense from plenty of different people, but I think Turkana from The left Coaster is probably the best example I can find.
The most basic fact that everyone needs get through their heads is that the superdelegates are going to decide the Democratic nomination. Neither [...]
