Play with the big bloggers.
Peter Daou’s Email
Former freelance progressive blogger and current Internet Director for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign - Peter Daou - sent out a personal email of sorts earlier today to some pro-Clinton, pro-Obama and neutral bloggers about the issue of “negative” attacks in this primary. I have a lot of respect for Peter - he was originally in the John Kerry campaign in 2004 and he has a very good understanding of how the [..]
Tags: Hillary Clinton
Categories: Clinton
Looks like fun.
Fasten Your Seat Belts
Tomorrow should be an interesting day on Wall Street. JP Morgan just bought Bear Sterns for less than the price of the office building it’s housed in and then the Fed cut interest rates another quarter of a point to try to cushion the [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
For those of you who stop by here on a regular basis, you’ve noticed it’s been a slow weekend for blogging. Just too many other things going on - family birthday, Arkansas in the hunt for the SEC Basketball title and the routine chores.
I’ll be in and out for the rest of the day, but may find time to scan through Bloglines during the game, unless it’s as exciting as last night’s was! In that case, I’m not sure my heart can handle it! Last second basket gave Arkansas the win over Number 4 Tennessee!
Let’s roll!
NYT’s Slams Bush on FISA
When the Bush administration began I didn’t have much faith that they would make good decisions but I never expected to see the editorial board of the New York Times become so unflinchingly vituperative in response. They see the president’s lawbreaking on domestic surveillance as criminal, and they sound like the political blogosphere in denouncing it. “Finally, Mr. Bush said it was vital to national security to give amnesty to any company that turned over data on Americans without a court order. The purpose of this amnesty is not to [... ]
Tags: Bush Administration, FISA
Categories: Bush Administration · FISA