Pretty good talking on Countdown tonight between Olbermann and Edwards. Edwards agrees with my thoughts – the right shouldn’t be complaining about WHERE the debate questions came from. They should worry more about their answers.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards talked with Keith Olbermann on Countdown about his take on the campaign so far, President Clinton’s statement that he was against the war, how out of touch the Republicans are with mainstream Americans and of course, the cavalcade of gifts they handed the Democrats [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Edwards
Tagged: Countdown, Edwards, Olbermann
WholeHogSports.com does some excellent digging in a post about the next Razorback football coach. Y’all know by now that Houston Nutt has flown the coop, landing at Ole Miss. Check out this investigative work..
I was scouring the Web for flights going to and from Auburn, Ala. And I stumbled upon this one, which left Tunica, Miss., flew to Rogers, went on to Auburn and came back to Tunica today. It appears that this flight may have picked up Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, who was in Arkansas hunting Thursday. The [...]
There was, of course, a lot of talk about this on the sportstalk shows as I was driving home tonight. Heck, they were talking about it as I drove IN this morning. The rumor concensus seems to be that Tuberville will be in Arkansas if the legal folks can figure out how to handle his buyout from Auburn. In the meantime, he’s hunting. No, REALLY hunting!
Categories: Arkansas · Sports
Tagged: Arkansas, Houston Nutt, Razorbacks, Tommy Tuberville
There’s been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere lately about how cities like Houston and Washington, DC are using drone aircraft, remotely controlled from the ground, to spy on people. Well, my friends, our little city of 70,000 people is getting on the bandwagon.
Criminals might soon have to look up, not just over their shoulders, to see if the North Little Rock Police Department has an eye on them. [...]
Categories: Arkansas · National Security
Tagged: Drone Aircraft, Spying
I’ll say one thing, it took some brains to figure these scams out and put them in place!
Giuliani’s Tricky Tryst Accounting Explored
We here at TPMm have dived headlong into the murky world of New York City accounting procedures to bring you the full story of Rudy Giuliani’s security detail’s mistress visit accounting shell game. A general clarification first. The central allegation behind the story was that Giuliani, or someone else looking to protect Giuliani, stuck the costs for the security detail into the budgets of obscure city agencies like the New York City Loft Board. It’s not clear [...]
Ah, but he’s not getting of THAT easy. There’s more:
Big Tent Democrat seems to think there may be legal consequences for Rudy as a result of sending NY cops to chauffer his squeeze: There oughta be a law! Oh wait, there is one: [NY State Comptroller Alan Hevesi’s] decision to step down came as Albany prosecutors were preparing to ask a grand jury to indict him [...]
Rudy’s reaction to being busted:
Categories: 2008 Election · Giuliani
Tagged: Giuliani
Leahy isn’t backing down. Yet. He’s well-armed and digging for details.
Leahy moves forward with White House contempt.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today said that several current and former White House officials, including Karl Rove and John Bolten, “must comply with committee subpoenas to testify” about the U.S. attorney scandal. He declared that President Bush had no role in the firings, therefore their excuses of “executive privilege” were “not legally valid.” [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Tagged: Bolten, Contempt, Leahy, Rove
It’s a slugfest. New numbers. From Rasmussen. Iowa Democrats.
Dead Heat in Iowa
A new Rasmussen Reports poll in Iowa finds the Democratic presidential race in a three way statistical tie. Sen. Hillary Clinton leads with [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Edwards · Obama
Tagged: Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Rasmussen
Foreclosures. WAY higher.
US Foreclosure Filings Up 94% in October
U.S. foreclosure filings nearly doubled in October from the same month last year, the latest sign many homeowners are falling behind on mortgage payments and increasingly losing their homes, according to a mortgage research company. A total of [...]
Going right in lockstep are housing prices…
New Home Prices: Worst Drop In 37 Years
The biggest plunge in new home prices in 37 years was not enough to revive October sales, according to the government’s latest reading on the battered housing and home building markets. The estimate for sales pace in October was well short of [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
Tagged: Foreclosures
The Giuliani story continues to drag him through the political mud. The big question remains – will the Big Guys treat it like the story it is, or will they give him a pass..
More to the Giuliani Story?
The Rudy Giuliani taxpayer-funded adultery story is not yet 24 hours old, so it’s too soon to tell if the traditional media will let this story die the way they’ve largely ignored plenty of other Giuliani stories. They often ignore or gloss over stories that show Giuliani’s selfishness, vanity and megalomania. They often ignore or gloss over stories that reveal huge blunders he made before, during and after 9-11 that hampered the city’s response to the attack, and probably cost lives. And they ignore [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Giuliani
Tagged: Giuliani
The other man from Hope is on a roll and picking up steam. Despite some negative reporting recently.
Huckabee is For Real
It is not about Iowa only any more. Mike Huckabee has a real shot to be the Republican nominee. A month ago after the Values Voters conference I opined: I don’t know that Mike Huckabee will win the [... ]
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
Tagged: Huckabee
A tip of the old fedora to Chuck Hagel. If nothing else, he’s outspoken…
Hagel on Bush WH: ‘most arrogant, incompetent’ ever.
Yesterday in an address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) stepped up his rhetoric against the Bush administration, calling it one of the most “incompetent” in history: Hagel, who considered running for the GOP presidential nomination as an antiwar candidate, told the foreign policy experts that he would give the Bush administration [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Tagged: Hagel
We’ll kick off Thursday night with some random musings. It’s just one of those days…
First: What’s WRONG with you people!
Glenn Beck #1 on NYT Best Seller List
Glenn Beck? #1?!?!? Gag me.
Next: Who Cares? A question is a question. Isn’t it logical that people who care enough about issues to videotape a question and upload it to YouTube just might be the same people who care enough about issues to be politically active? Sheesh.
The Hazards of Live TV: #24,920
A minor kerfuffle erupted at the end of the CNN/YouTube debate. During the debate Brigadier General Keith Kerr asked a question about gays in the Military. Only it turns out that Kerr was on a steering committee for Senator Hillary Clinton. CNN was not aware of this. Anderson Cooper said this at the end of [...]
Michelle Malkin thinks that’s a big deal. A REALLY big deal…
Digging out more CNN/YouTube plants: Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers
By the way, after my scattered bits of watching, I’m thinking Huckabee came out of that debate looking pretty good. Tap Dance of the night…Mitt…
Romney Refuses To Call Waterboarding Torture, Says He’ll Consult With Blackwater’s Cofer Black
During tonight’s CNN/YouTube debate, a YouTube questioner asked the candidates why they refuse to condemn waterboarding as torture. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said that before making such a determination, he would need to get “counsel on a matter of this nature” from “a lot” of people. One of the people with whom Romney said [...]
Aw, just time for one more. One more opinion. Or two. Taylor Marsh sums things up and has a GREAT quote from the National Review.
General Punks GOP & CNN
It was a beautiful thing. Watching the Republicans respond to a gay veteran Special Forces man asking a question about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. That man also happens to be a Clinton supporter. It will not be forgotten at CNN headquarters or GOP central. It’s unlikely any Republican will forget this travesty. What a colossal collapse; worse than I could imagine. Fred Thompson even let fly a negative ad during the debate. But Romney getting dressed down by McCain on torture really showed the craven callousness of Slick Mitt who is one of the most contemptible conservative caricatures ever [...]
If you prefer more mainstream analysis, here’s a good collection of links to keep you busy for a while…
Republicans Have Heated Debate
Categories: 2008 Election · Politics · Talk Radio · Television
