Football Coaches

There’s still almost constant chatter around these parts about who the next Razorback football coach will be, although some callers to the sports talk radio shows profess to being sick of all of it.  For those of you who still adamantly follow such things, USA Today has an interesting article and a bunch of linked databases about who’s making how much and how much teams are paying for each win.  Kind of a fun little exercise!

Sex Ed

Pushing abstinence just doesn’t seem to be working very well. Of course, there are all kinds of outside factors that come into play.  Still, this is a significant change..

Bush’s abstinence-only policies at work.

According to a new government report, the U.S. “teen birth rate has risen for the first time in 14 years. … The birth rate had been dropping since 1991. The decline had slowed in recent years, but government statisticians said Wednesday it jumped  [...]

That Pesky NIE

Is Scarborough still a Republican?

Joe Scarborough Rips Bush On Iran NIE: He’s Either ‘Lying’ Or ‘Is Stupid’

Yesterday in his press conference, President Bush asserted that Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told him “we have new information” on Iran’s nuclear program, but “he did not tell me what the information was.” This morning, the cast of Morning Joe chided Bush’s claim. Co-host Willie Geist said, “It’s just not a credible answer, I’m [...]

Savage and The General

I find people like Michael Savage simply despicable. Who listens to people like him?  Probably just answered my own question…

Savage blasts ‘gay, phony general”; questions quality of U.S. troops

Perhaps the most memorable moment of last week’s CNN/YouTube debate for Republican presidential candidates can midway through the event, when Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr quizzed the GOP field on whether they would allow Americans who happen to be gay to serve in the U.S. military, as he did. Kerr can back up the question with earned [...]

Food Safety

It’s not just the Food and  Drug Administration that’s in disaray, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is, too.  Chipped away at by budget cuts and bad management, both need to be improved.  Soon.

Kennedy Presses Leavitt on Lack of Food Safety Resources

Calling a new report on under-funding of the Food and Drug Administration “about as fierce an indictment in terms of a government agency as I’ve seen in 45 years of being in the United States Senate,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., challenged the Bush administration Tuesday on the urgency of its response to gaps in [...]

The Huckabee Saga

Today’s chapter continues.  If there wasn’t enough negative chatter about Dumond, etc - Conservative bloggers got ahold of a juicy report from Washington..

Mike Huckabee Supporters Illegally Circulating Petition In Washington DC?

A friend of mine who works on Capitol Hill contacted me today saying that supporters of Mike Huckabee are circulating a petition in the Congressional office buildings to get Mike on the primary ballot in Washington DC.  My friend, along with several of his colleagues, were a bit taken aback as solicitation of this sort is typically illegal in [...]

Politics

No kidding. It’s politics. Kos nails it and the Clinton/Clark combo needs to back down.

Politics

The dumbest thing Wesley Clark has ever said, in a new Iowa ad for Clinton: “I see that Hillary’s opponents have started to attack her. That’s [...]

The Numbers

Multiple new polls came out last night and today. Just keep clicking and you’ll find what you’re looking for.

No Joke

Huckabee’s in second place nationally, jut six points behind Rudy [....]

This Quinnipiac poll makes Clinton look ‘inevitable’

Multiple polls here: Taegen Goddards Political Wire

Zogby: Dead Heat in Iowa

We Called Him “Uncle Walter”

Walter Cronkite.  Part of an elite group of network news anchors from the era when they really counted for something, when EVERYONE watched the national news darn near every night. The industry has changed.  Options abound. But Walter is still Walter.  And, my friends, that is a good thing.

Walter Cronkite: The Invasion of Iraq Was Illegal From the Start

Walter Cronkite’s opposition to the Vietnam war was instrumental in turning public opinion against that mistake. Cronkite is far less prominent now that he was in the 1960’s but he continues to speak out against foreign policy mistakes. The following is an excerpt of an article by Walter Cronkite and David Krieger at CommonDreams: “The invasion [...]

Good Going, DHS

Ah, another day.  Another few billions of our tax dollars being wasted.  Who would have EVER thought Homeland Security could mess something up this badly.  Oh…look at all the hands! You did?

Report: Massive Failures, Billions Wasted At Homeland Security Dept

Five years ago, President Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security. Over the past five years, the American people have become far too familiar with stories about DHS and its gross overruns on projects, the worst employee morale in the federal government, the inoperability of information technology, our exposure to cyber-terrorism or FEMA’s fake press conference. Today, CREW is releasing [...]

Behind The Scenes

Things are getting nasty.

Stunning report: Clinton staffers consider Obama “Worse than Bush”… “Uppity”

David Corn reports for CQ Politics: When talking to Clintonites in recent days, I’ve noticed that they’ve come to despise Obama. I suppose that may be natural in the final weeks of a competitive campaign when much is at stake. But these people don’t need any prompting in private conversations to decry Obama as a dishonest [...]

Wednesday Welcome

It’s that mid-point in the week that we all strive to survive to.  The train’s moving with the next stop the weekend.  A bit of good news from the homestead - our shelter dog who was diagnosed with heartworms a couple of months ago has been given the green light!  It’s been a long couple of months for her (and for us).  A couple of intensive treatments at the vet’s office, followed by “quiet living” for two months.  No running, no barking, outside trips were limited and had to be on a leash.  We had one scare, midway through the first month, where we spent a Sunday at the emergency animal hospital when she started coughing up blood. Quick work by the vet got her on some special medication and she pulled through. She’s not back to her old personality, yet.  But I’m betting she will be shortly.  Let this be a lesson for those of you who live in the South here in the U.S. - heartworms are a year-round threat these days, since it’s not often cold enough to kill off the mosquitoes that transfer the worms from one dog to another.  The frightening thing is there’s apparently a new strain of heartworm that doesn’t respond to the usual preventive treatments.  Bottom line - take your dog to the vet for the heartworm test.  If it’s negative, start the monthly treatments and stick with them.  It’s not worth the risk of exposure to miss a month.

Now, off to the news.  And to kick-start things tonight we look no further than our hometown Arkansas Times blog that rounds up a great collection of all things Huckabee.  And it ain’t a pretty collection for the other Man From Hope.

The Dumond file — and more

Murray Waas is back. In a lengthy posting on the Huffington Post, reporter Waas adds important new details to the story he reported for us in 2002 on killer Wayne Dumond and Gov. Mike Huckabee’s extraordinary advocacy of Dumond’s release from prison. Waas details evidence that Huckabee had even more reason than has been previously known to question whether  [...]

On another issue, Huck’s gonna have trouble with this bit of honesty..