Massive numbers involved in this latest voting charade. Should make the vote Tuesday really something to watch.
1.1 Million Purged from Indiana Voter Registration Rolls According to State Data, Says BBV
The Republican War on Voting continues apace. In addition to the recent, outrageously bad decision by the Supreme Court to approve Indiana’s draconian polling place Photo ID restrictions, sure to keep thousands of legal voters from even being able to cast a vote in tomorrow’s important Primary Election — despite the [...]
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We all have ideas. Whatca think about this one?
Corporate Welfare in the Oil Patch
Alex Knapp thinks that a windfall profits tax on oil companies is a bad idea: “However, one thing that I did notice when I was doing a little google-fu on the issue is that there appears [...]
Categories: Economy
Is it that, or just a pipe dream? I wouldn’t count her out, but it’s gonna get messy!
Identifying Clinton’s target audience
Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen a few items explaining just how difficult it would be for Hillary Clinton to catch up to Barack Obama, but Ezra reminds us today that “the math is harder for Clinton to make up with every passing day.” There simply aren’t enough contests remaining for Clinton to close [...]
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Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Some places saw a bit of an improvement in gas prices over the weekend. Not in my neighborhood, sadly. And, we probably missed our chance..
Oil passes $120, gas prices slip more than a cent
Oil futures surged to a new record over $120 a barrel Monday, raising concerns about higher prices for gasoline and goods and services throughout the economy. Retail gas prices fell more than a cent over the weekend, but oil’s advance increased the likelihood that pump prices would resume their climb. Supply threats that emerged overseas and a weaker dollar sent [...]
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For Tuesday’s Primaries? All over the map.
Zogby v. SurveyUSA Showdown
Seems like we’ve got another Zogby v. SurveyUSA showdown on our hands. Zogby, improbably and I think unlike everyone else, has had Obama a couple points ahead of Hillary Clinton in Indiana. And SurveyUSA’s just-released survey has her a full [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Bring your big suitcase, so you can bring home plenty of this “stuff”. Sometimes I just don’t know what to say…
Greetings from Guantanamo Bay … and the sickest souvenir shop in the world
The sands are white, the sea laps gently and crowds of bronzed Americans laze in the Caribbean sunshine. They have a cinema, a golf course and, naturally, a gift shop stocked with mugs, jaunty T-shirts and racks of postcards showing perfect sunsets and bright green iguanas. Only the barbed wire decoration, a recurring motif, hints at anything wrong. Welcome to “Taliban Towers” at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulishly distasteful tourist destination on [...]
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It’s not looking very good, my friends. And very few of us believe that it is!
Oh, The Pain
Oh, the pain at the pumps. It continues to get worse. Is there no end in sight? Apparently not and consumers think it will just keep getting worse. Americans are already paying through the nose for gasoline, and they think it’s only going to get worse. “A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found that 94% of respondents expect [...]
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Times change, I guess. As do minds.
After Voting To Declare English As The National Language, McCain Launches Spanish-Language Website
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) launched a Spanish-language campaign website, greeting voters with, “Bienvenido! Estmaos Unidos con McCain” (Welcome! We are united with McCain): This new website comes despite the fact that McCain voted in 2006 for Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-OK) amendment to “declare English as the national language of the United States and to [...]
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What’s the contest? Stupidest thing to ever come out of the mouth of a human being. Here’s my entry:
Baghdad amusement park contractor: Violence in Baghdad is like ‘drive-bys’ in LA.
On April 24, Fox News interviewed John March, executive vice president of Ride and Show Engineering, to discuss the contractor’s plans to develop the “Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience.” Host Bill Hemmer asked March whether there are safety concerns associated with the park’s development. March answered: Well, you live here in Southern California and there’s drive-bys [...]
Sadly, it’s not the first time we’ve heard such talk. And won’t be the last time. Lots of history in the following.
GOP: Baghdad Still Safer Than U.S. Cities
From the outset of the Iraq war, Republican leaders and their amen corner in the right-wing media have sought to calm squeamish Americans by favorably comparing the violence there to life in U.S. cities. Now, John March, a developer planning [...]
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Bill Clinton’s still on the campaign trail, but he’s managed to keep things under control, more than other recent outings. He took a slightly different tact at a speech this morning. I’m guessing he probably scored some points, given his audience.
Bill: “I Didn’t Come Here To Ask You To Vote For My Wife”
ABC News’ Sarah Amos reports: Former President Bill Clinton spent time in two western North Carolina churches this morning, speaking more from his heart than any sort of political handbook. “I didn’t come here to ask you to vote for my wife,” said Clinton, addressing the congregation at Church of the Pentacostal in Asheville, N.C. “I came here to ask you to pray for her. And to vote. Do whatever you [...]
Ooops. Spoke too soon -
Bill Clinton Cracks Jokes As People Faint
Has Bill Clinton totally lost his mind? From AP: “Former President Bill Clinton is cracking wise about his ability to make people faint, telling voters in North Carolina he didn’t think he still had it in him.Clinton was campaigning Sunday for his wife’s presidential bid on a hot and sunny day in western North Carolina. The [...]
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And books. All about the Iraq War. None painting a very pretty picture of all that’s happened and the way the war has been run.
Today’s Must Read
Five years after the invasion of Iraq, there seems to have been a rash of accounting lately. Consider: in March, the Joint Forces Command released (after a pathetic attempt at squelching it) a report definitively proving that there were no [...]
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It’s not just an amusement park anymore. It’s WAY beyond that. I’m sorry, but I’m just not seeing the real possibility of success of something like this. Too cynical? You tell me…
Pentagon Backs Plan To Build U.S. ‘Zone Of Influence’ Of Hotels And Resorts In Baghdad
The White House has repeatedly insisted that the United States has “no desire for permanent bases” in Iraq. Nevertheless, the Bush administration is seeking to leave its footprint on Iraq through other means. The AP reports that the Pentagon is backing a $5 billion dollar plan to “transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone” into a “centerpiece [...]
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Well, that was a quick weekend, wasn’t it? And we’re already into Monday evening! By the way, I have several evening commitments this week, so…things might be a bit slow around here.
With the primary elections tomorrow in North Carolina and Indiana, darn near all the chatter in the blogosphere is politics. And it’s getting really interesting.
USA Today/Gallup Poll: Obama “Significantly Hurt” by Wright
USA Today reports on its new poll conducted with Gallup: “Barack Obama’s national standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor, a [...]
More thoughts about the Tuesday primaries-
Expectations in Indiana
Presidential politics is often more about beating expectations than beating your opponent. It’s through this lens that the results of Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana must be viewed. Based on the demographics, [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
