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""What is really at stake is whether or not America will allow the cultural high ground in this nation to sink slowly into an abyss of slime to placate people who clearly seek or are willing to destroy the Judaic-Christian foundations of this republic." Jesse Helms -1990 Former Sen. Jesse Helms passed away this morning. He was 86. In an e-mail interview with The Associated Press in 2005, Helms said...
While this is a message intended for Alaskans , it makes sense for the entire West, not to mention the country. The Begich plan includes: Standing Up Against Government Interference - including warrantless wiretapping, the assault on habeas corpus, the pursuit of Real ID cards, and retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that illegally helped the federal government spy on Americans....
Issued here , where there is an ongoing discussion with policy advisors taking place: I want to take this opportunity to speak directly to those of you who oppose my decision to support the FISA compromise. This was not an easy call for me. I know that the FISA bill that passed the House is far from perfect. I wouldn't have drafted the legislation like this, and it does not resolve all of the concerns...
CNN : With the dust having finally settled after the prolonged Democratic presidential primary, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama locked in a statistical dead heat in the race for the White House. With just over four months remaining until voters weigh in at the polls, the new survey out Tuesday indicates Obama holds a narrow 5-point advantage among...
We do too much "heroification" in America, according to James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (a book that ought to be on everybody's shelf). Like me, he thinks the word hero has been cheapened, ending up more often a description for football quarterbacks who throw perfect last-minute passes than for, say, the passerby who risks her...
And guess what? He's not beside himself with fear that disagreement with his position will cost him the election. Here's the key part for me: Now, I understand why some of you feel differently about the current bill, and I'm happy to take my lumps on this side and elsewhere. For the truth is that your organizing, your activism and your passion is an important reason why this bill is better than previous...
In April, as they were being buried under a flood of some 310,000 new Democratic voter registrations in Pennsylvania, state Republican leaders promised a major effort to win back voters after the primary. But according to Pennsylvania Republican Committee Spokesman Michael Barley, the GOP will mount a "pretty aggressive voter registration effort right after the primary," to get those who have switched...
Karl Rove : Mr. Obama may be overreaching by running ads in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Nebraska, Montana, Alaska and North Dakota – states Republicans won by comfortable margins in recent years. It would require a shift of between one-sixth and over one-quarter of the vote to win any of them. Shifts that large rarely happen. Big shifts do occur – witness West Virginia in 2000,...
One of the worst decisions a candidate can make is to base his or her campaigns headquarters in the Washington DC area, like John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and -- yes -- John McCain have done. Apparently, campaigns feel they can tap into the talent pool in DC far better than they would in the hinterlands of Boston, New York, or (and this makes slightly more sense) Arizona. The problem is two-fold --...
No one can . McCain became visibly angry when I asked him to explain how his Vietnam experience prepared him for the Presidency. "Please," he said, recoiling back in his seat in distaste at the very question. McCain allies Sen. Lindsey Graham stepped in to rescue him. Graham expressed admiration for McCain’s stance on the treatment of detainees in US custody. He became visibly angry because the answer...
Seattle Times : Looking into the black, collapsed interior of her home along the shore of Ames Lake on Tuesday, congressional candidate Darcy Burner was matter-of-fact. "I'd say it's pretty much a total loss, based on the smoldering remains," she said. "We lost stuff. It's just stuff. The boy is fine. The husband is fine." Burner, her husband and their 5-year-old son were home asleep when the 7 a.m....
The Washington Post this morning published a breathless piece on the fact that the Obamas got a good deal on their home loan -- a 5.625% rate when the average rate was 5.93%. Needless to say, the wingnuts have worked themselves up into a froth over the information. Let's just stand back and allow Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight deliver the definitive smackdown: So Obama's rate was 30 basis points better...
... And I feel fine. Unfortunately, that sentiment is not shared by a small group of folks in the Aloha State : Now the media is correctly reporting that some physicists believe that the Large Hadron Collider might produce mini black holes in its collisions, and that black holes are in general so powerful that they can swallow up not just the Earth, but whole star systems. This in turn has sparked...
We told you in April about the latest incarnation of House Republicans' vaunted ROMP program. ROMP stands, amusingly enough, for the "Regain Our Majority Program". Only thing is, the first installment of ROMP candidates in 2008 didn't really have anything to do with actually regaining the majority . Out of 10 Republicans on the list, seven were incumbents, and exactly one was targeting a Democratic-held...
Via Ben Smith at Politico : "I guess my question is why, given all the vast numbers of things that we’ve got to work on, that that would be a top priority of mine?" Obama said, responding to a reporter who asked the candidate why he hadn’t called on Wesley Clark to apologize for his remarks yesterday. "I’m happy to have all sorts of conversations about how we deal with Iraq and what happens with Iran,...
