If you’re following closely, you probably saw this one coming in the past couple of weeks. Still, it could be one of the defining moments, assuming Obama is the nominee.
On GI Bill, Obama Hopes to Draw Distinction with McCain
As presidential hopeful Barack Obama shifts his focus from the primary contest to the general election, he’s trumpeting his support for a congressional proposal to extend education benefits to post-9/11 vets—and reminding voters that the likely GOP nominee, John McCain, opposes the same plan. “The distinction could prove a tough one for McCain. Though [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Military · Obama
Oh, this is not good!
EPA testing air after twister in toxic Oklahoma town
The Environmental Protection Agency planned to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through a town so polluted with lead-filled mining waste that it’s a Superfund site [...]
Categories: Environment · Tornado · Weather
OMG, as the kids would say. OMG. Seriously? Top of the list?
Huckabee For VP?
U.S. News’s James Pethokoukis reports that a McCain fundraiser has learned that Mike Huckabee is at the top of McCain’s list of potential running mates. “The fundraiser is less than thrilled with the [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · McCain
All O.J. All the time.
AP: Former O.J. Simpson Crony Says He Confessed to Murders
A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted. Mike Gilbert also claims {…]
Categories: Crime
I know politics can be viscous. I know people take sides, choose their candidates, based (many times) on soundbites or rumors. That’s not fair to any politician. No matter what you think about Hillary Clinton, you might want to take a couple of minutes and read this. She can certainly put the words down on paper.
Fighting for Dreams
The Charleston Gazette has an OP/ED by Hillary Clinton today describing why she is running for president and what her goals are as our next president. It’s well worth a read… Here’s a few quips: “I was raised to believe in the promise of America. My grandfather was a factory worker, and my father served in [...]
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Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
If you had any thought that the Pentagon’s program of providing “military analysts” to the networks had any validity, think again.
Audio: Military Analyst to Rumsfeld: You are our leader. Had O’Reilly eating out of his hand
I have to give Howard Kurtz some credit because he hasn’t backed away from the Military Generals scandal. He plays audio from one of the military analysts who was part of the propaganda scandal with the Pentagon and who lovingly praises Rumsfeld. It looks like O’Reilly was used in the same way that [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Military
This is absolutely unbelievable, especially the super-tight restrictions on what you can use for ID. I wouldn’t be able to vote! My passport has expired, I have only a copy of my birth certificate easily accessible, and I certainly don’t have naturalization papers! I was born in the U.S. and I’m supposed to be able to vote here! At least, that’s what I thought!
Missouri Amendment Would Require Proof of Citizenship to Vote
The Missouri Secretary of State estimates the amendment, if passed, would disenfranchise up to a quarter million citizens [...]
Categories: Politics
And, once again, it won’t do any good. There’s got to be another angle. Another tactic.
Conyers Threatens Subpoenas for DoJ Selective Prosecution Documents
Last July, the House Judiciary Committee requested documents from the Justice Department about three cases that seemed to be the worst cases of selective prosecutions undertaken by George Bush’s DoJ. In each case, the U.S. attorney had pursued a flawed [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Webb’s idea just seems so logical. Maybe that’s why the Pentagon is trying to shoot it down. I’m thinking the American Legion is right on target with its views:
American Legion Backs Webb GI Bill: This Bill Would ‘Encourage’ Young People To Join The Military
The Bush administration has come out strongly against Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) efforts to dramatically expand educational benefits for returning veterans. In a press briefing on May 6, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell warned of the “harm” Webb’s 21st Century GI Bill would do to troop retention and objected to the generous benefits given after [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Military
Or, maybe not.
Today’s Must Read
The president has said that his administration is employing every tool at their disposal to foil terrorists while protecting the civil liberties of Americans. For some reason, The Los Angeles Times opted not to take him at his word. The [...]
Categories: FISA · National Security · Terrorism
She’s hanging in there. Part of me wants her too, just to prove her point that the voters in all the primaries need to have a voice. Part of me acknowledges that she doesn’t have a statistical chance. Given that, is it possible that she’s trying to hold on, hoping the Obama campaign implodes? Or has to face some devastatingly negative revelation?
Whatever the philosophy, there are the realities. She’s in big-time money trouble.
Clinton Cash Cows Stampede
Twenty million here, twenty million there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Close on the heels of revelations that Hillary Clinton loaned herself another six million dollars in April, her campaign noted this weekend that they are approximately twenty million dollars in the red. “Clinton aides continued to insist that she will remain in the race even [...]
Ben Smith analyzes Hillary’s situation over at the Politico:
Six ways to lose
There are 50 ways to leave your lover, 13 ways of looking at a blackbird, and at least six ways to drop out of a presidential race. With Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign running on empty with little hope of victory, the New York senator’s allies and independent observers alike have begun to consider which one she’ll choose. Clinton is balancing a [...]
And, Newsweek’s Richard Wolfe looks at what may be on the horizon:
Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble
He’s taken everything in stride, it seems. How Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
The housing crisis continues to spread. Now, it’s beginning to hit the richest of the rich. That means, in plain English, it’s really bad. The difference here will be that these folks likely have the resources to save their home, while many middle class people do not. If THEY can’t come up with the cash, then we have just taken this situation up a notch.
Trouble In Paradise: Record Foreclosures In Hamptons
Homeowners in the some of the toniest ZIP codes in the Hamptons are facing a frightening reality - they can’t afford to foot the bill for their high-priced homes, The Post has learned. In the first three months of this year, banks have launched preliminary foreclosure actions - known as lis pendens proceedings - against a record [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
Hope your Mothers’ Day was a great one. Now, it’s back to work on a Monday. Saturday night brought more storms around here. More families waking up to a new week with no home or a badly damaged one. It’s been an usually rough spring, weather-wise, not only around here, but all across the south. It may not be Global Warming, but something is up with our weather cycles.
Myanmar is still a mess. A bit of relief is getting in, but not nearly enough. Now, we have an earthquake in China that’s killed thousands. 900 students buried in a school and rescuers have no way to get to them, the roads are destroyed.
And, much more locally, I’ve gotten in the habit of checking gas prices on my way into work each morning. Yesterday, I noticed one station had jumped five cents a gallon higher than the other - $3.64 vs $3.59. This morning, the $3.59 station had jumped a DIME to $3.69! What prompted that? Crude oil is actually a bit lower right now? It’s frustrating, to say the least.
Ok, how about a little politics. Some political prognostications, perhaps…
Why McCain could win the White House
A VIEW FROM CANADA: For many voters, the Republican nominee is viewed as true war hero and the one to best defend country [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Economy · McCain
