Let’s see — Clinton raises $3 million on Wednesday, the day after her victories. Obama announces he raised $55 million in February.
Deep pockets abound.
UPDATE: As long as we’re talking numbers, there’s a huge Hillary swing in Pennsylvania:
Rasmussen: Clinton Surges in Pennsylvania
A new Rasmussen Reports survey in Pennsylvania finds Sen. Hillary Clinton has opened a 15 point lead over Sen. Barack Obama, 52% to 37%. Less than two weeks ago, Clinton’s lead was just 4 points. Key finding: [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
See, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t demand the other guy make his returns public, and then not want to release yours. Just doesn’t make any sense. All it does is raise concerns that you ARE hiding something, even if you’re not.
After reading this, it looks like there might be a lot of interesting things in those Clinton tax returns. Bill has sure made a lot of money while keeping the details secret: Since leaving office in 2001, Clinton has wiped out millions of dollars in legal bills and become a multimillionaire through a brisk schedule of [...]
Meanwhile, over at AMERICAblog, John pleads:
Media, don’t get bamboozled over the tax return story
I’ve noticed several mentions in the press of senior Clinton staff saying that Hillary will release her tax returns when other Americans do so, near April 15. Check out what senior adviser to the Hillary campaign Ann Lewis said the other day about this issue: [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Just wait until the California water shortage hits. In case you didn’t know, Southern California is where a lot (make that a LOT) of our fruits and vegetables are grown.
Southern California farmer Chris Hurd is worried. As it is, the tomato crops on his family farm are struggling because of a dwindling water supply. Farmers in Southern California receive only two-thirds of the water promised the state, according to [...]
That’s what I feel when I read stuff like this. Maybe it’s more like a churning in my stomach…
Top Iraq Contractor Skirts Taxes Offshore
Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven. More than 21,000 people working for KBR in Iraq – including [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Halliburton · Iraq War
I’m sure the President was on the phone sometime in the past couple of days, doing what he promised. Right? If he did, OPEC certainly snubbed him.
Bush’s Solution To Gas Prices May Need Tweaking
George W. Bush, 1/26/2000: “What I think the president ought to do [when gas prices spike] is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots…And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.” Yesterday: Oil prices reached a record close, surging above $104 a barrel after OPEC decided [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Economy
Our neighbors to the north seem to know a bad deal, when they see one.
Canadians toss out CIA’s tainted evidence.
Newsweek reports that the Canadian government is no longer using evidence gained from CIA interrogations of a top al Qaeda detainee who was waterboarded. “The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country’s national-security agency, last month quietly withdrew statements by alleged Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah from public papers outlining the case against two alleged [...]
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
We’ve not been to New Orleans since Katrina killed her, but friends and associates have been. They tell of a French Quarter that seems much like it always has been. But, those who have ventured out into the rest of the city return with sobering descriptions. And the raw numbers paint a similarly depressing picture; do we now have to admit that the government took advantage of the situation to “sanitize” New Orleans?
Bill Quigley | Half of New Orleans’s Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?
Bill Quigley writes for Truthout: “Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low-cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.”
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Categories: Bush Administration · Hurricanes · Weather
At first, I discounted this possibility, thinking that many of the older women who came out in droves to vote for Hillary this week would have been sound asleep when Saturday Night Live aired. Then, I woke up and realized that the clips were played all day Sunday on the cable networks, aired on the network newscasts Monday, and circulated virally by email.
Thus, this is beginning to sound a bit more likely to me:
Did SNL Save Clinton’s Campaign?
Joe Klein suggests the Saturday Night Live skits showing Sen. Barack Obama pampered at the expense of Sen. Hillary Clinton were a tipping point before this week’s primaries. “SNL had tapped into the slow boil that many of Clinton’s female supporters had experienced during [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Television
Tuesday may have been a triple-win for Hillary Clinton, but she still has some “issues” with her staff. She’s apparently fixed some of the personnel problems, but not all of them.
Wash Post bombshell: Hillary campaign meltdown
Two days after her victory on Tuesday, this will likely be all the news on Thursday. It’s not the kind of thing she’ll want to be talking about, how all her top staffers hate each other. “For the bruised and bitter staff around [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Still think the economy’s okay? It’s going to come down to a question of gas, food, housing or medicine pretty soon. Pick one from the list, because that’s all you can afford.
Foreclosures Hit All-Time High
Home foreclosures soared to an all-time high in the final quarter of last year, underscoring the suffering of distressed homeowners and the growing danger the housing meltdown poses for the economy [...]
CA Station Sells Gas For $5 A Gallon
Homeowner equity is lowest since 1945
And that means: Mortgage Crisis Going From Bad To Worse
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Double bombing in Baghdad kills 53
Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a packed Baghdad shopping district Thursday evening, killing at least 53 people and wounding 130, Interior Ministry and hospital officials said. A roadside bomb exploded in [...]
Categories: Iraq War
I think each of the Presidential Candidates has some things to explain before we, the American voters, can hope to understand how they would perform in office. I’m far from deciding who I think that person should be. But I found this article one of the most enlightening about Barack Obama’s thought processes and inquisitiveness.
Reflections on Obama By Someone Who Knows Him
One of the memes of the Clinton campaign is to try to paint Obama as an empty suit. There’s been considerable evidence that this is untrue, and we see it again in a description of Obama by Cas Sunstein, a former colleague of Obama at The University of Chicago: On this occasion, he had an important [...]
If that article was positive, this one balances it out. Confusing, isn’t it?
Obama adviser: No one ready for 3 am phone call
The Clinton campaign has very generously sent reporters covering the presidential race a YouTube video of Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama, saying on MSNBC yesterday that neither Sens. Hillary Clinton nor Obama were ready to answer the 3 a.m. crisis phone call in the White House. The Clinton campaign saw it as a gotcha moment, since [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Hey, they must have figured it’s a great gig, if you can get it. While it lasts. Kaboom!
Fidelity Fined in SEC Probe of Private Jets, Escorts, Ecstasy
Fidelity Investments Vice Chairman Peter Lynch, former head trader Scott DeSano and 11 employees accepted more than $1.6 million worth [...]
Categories: Crime
I thought they’d wait a while before trying to upgrade the scare tactics. I guess I thought wrong:
Commander warns of al-Qaida threat
The military commander in charge of domestic security says al-Qaida may be working more urgently to plan an attack on the U.S. to maintain its credibility [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War · National Security · Terrorism
Indeed, I still think this is one heck of a story and is certainly worth following, even if a key player thinks it deserves only a “shrug of the shoulders”.
32-year award-winning news veteran and New Mexico’s ABC field producer, Laura MacCallum, quit her job as afternoon anchor at Albuquerque’s 50,000-watt blowtorch KKOB-AM 770, after she read an email from her News Director, Pat Allen, which said, among other things, “if there was anything to it the bloggers would have [...]
MacCallum goes on the record, explaining what happened, citing ethical lapses at KKOB
In life, you either have integrity or you don’t. There’s no gray-area here. Nor should there EVER be. In my work over many years as a print and broadcast journalist, the point was always to get to the truth, no matter whose toes it stepped on, or who got angry. Truth rules. I have spent my entire adult life looking for the truth in situations, in politics, with governmental agencies, with law enforcement, injustices (think Elton Richard), etc. Being an ethical journalist carries a responsibility. You should have [...]
It’s absolutely essential reading. Take a moment. We’ll do our best to keep you up to speed on this one.
Man, I’ve always enjoyed flying Southwest Airlines. The crew seemed to be a bit more laid-back and would frequently joke with passengers. Fares were good, the flights tended to run close to schedule. Now, CNN’s Investigative Unit rips it all apart:
Records: Southwest Airlines flew “unsafe” planes
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Documents submitted by FAA inspectors to congressional investigators allege the airline flew at least 117 of its planes in violation of mandatory safety checks. In some cases, the documents say, the planes flew for 30 months after government inspection deadlines had passed and should have been grounded until the inspections could be completed. The planes were “not airworthy,” according to [...]
Categories: Travel
Pretty much sitting on its hands, doing nothing. via AMERICAblog, where they delight in finding little nuggets of incompetence at the highest levels of our government.
Bush EPA ignores Supreme Court directive
They are not even trying to make up excuses, which makes this even more amazing. They just shrug their shoulders and [...]
Categories: Environment
This is just so strange for Arkansas in March. A foot of snow early this week, not far from here. More in the forecast (for us, this time) for tonight through Friday. Part of me would love to see 8 inches of it, but the other part of me doesn’t want to have to deal with the idiotic drivers who will try to maneuver the hilly streets of our city, with bald tires and no snow-driving skills. I’ve been out there with them in previous years and it ain’t fun. Best story was the year my usual 20 minute drive to or from work turned into a six hour nightmare. All it takes is an inch or so of snow and this area shuts down. Stay tuned. We’ll keep you posted. Heck, I might even play around with the camera and try to upload a photo or two! in case you’re interested, this is what we’re dealing with. See all that white over Arkansas and surrounding states? Those are Winter Weather Warnings and Watches. That’s a big hunk of territory…
For now, let’s see what the politicos are yapping about. I’m somewhat fatigued by the aftermath of the elections, so we’ll kick things off with something different.
So where will the real story be told?
A month ago, I wrote about a former female Halliburton/KBR employee who was forced to arbitrate a legal claim of sexual assault and sexual harassment that occurred in Iraq, rather than having a public trial before a jury.Well, one month later, it is happening again:”In a federal lawsuit, Jamie Leigh Jones says she was drugged, raped and held against her will in a storage locker while working for KBR Inc., then [...]
Categories: Halliburton · Iraq War
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