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Would Early Primaries Allow More Donations?
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot believes that candidates will benefit if primaries and caucuses get pushed into 2007. A loophole in campaign finance regulation appears to allow an extra $2,300 per donor for candidates if those elections are held this year. Be sure to check out Jim's analysis, and the surprising candidate that may benefit the most.
When Tom Met Jeralyn
One of the interesting aspects of politics is finding out that opponents are people, too. Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft met Rep. Tom Tancredo backstage at NBC's studios, and found him more likable than she had anticipated. Perhaps it was their mutual interest in Dog, The Bounty Hunter ...
Joe Lieberman A Right-Wing Nut?
That's what CAIR says, according to Joe Kaufman. He has a link to a CAIR official's blog post that calls Lieberman, along with John Bolton, former CIA director James Woolsey, and the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes as "extremists". Affad Shaikh also calls Dick Cheney a "fat bastard of a liar," apparently not meant as a pop-culture reference to the Austin Powers movies. (via Let Freedom Ring)
Broadband Homelessness
The Japanese have made homelessness more efficient, and more Net-friendly, too. Their Internet cafés have become homeless shelters for the struggling manual-labor sector. The problem has grown into such a problem that government intervention will shortly become a political priority.
Found My Law Firm
Power Line links twice to this story regarding an attorney at Faegre & Benson who refused to become a victim and helped capture a very dangerous man. Keith Radtke is a partner in the firm as is Power Line's John Hinderaker. Radtke is listed in satisfactory condition after getting shot in the back, but that didn't keep him from locking up his attacker in a wrestling grip until police could arrive. I don't know about you, but that's the kind of man I'd want as my counsel ....
Don't Click That YouTube E-mail
The latest in spam seems to be redirections from YouTube links in e-mail to IP addresses without domain names. They attempt to entice people by making it seem that they have been inadvertently YouTubed. I'm sure most people can see through this scam, but just in case, you've been warned ....
Rick Moran Escapes The Floods
Rick Moran has kept us up to date on his travails along the Algonquin River. Yesterday, the police showed up to get him evacuated before the river flooded his home -- but today, Rick finds that a minor miracle has taken place, and that his house survives ... at least for now. Keep Rick in your prayers, and keep checking in at Right Wing Nut House for updates.
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Comments (13)
Posted by Jessica | July 23, 2007 7:32 PM
I would like to see all the candidates address the United States’ commitment to the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, which call for cutting world hunger in half by 2015 and eliminating it altogether by 2025. Indeed, it is estimated that the expenditure of a mere $19 billion would eliminate starvation and malnutrition worldwide. In a time when the current defense budget is $522 billion, the goal of eradicating world hunger is clearly well within reach and it is my hope that whoever becomes president in 2008 addresses this pressing issue.
Posted by gaffo | July 23, 2007 8:00 PM
Maybe Richerson will not look drunks this time and not ramble incoherently like he did in the last debate.
GO OBAMA!!! - knock that Bitch down a few pegs - most Americans, including dems don't want any more DYNASTIES!!!!
Go Obama! kick some arse.
Posted by richard mcenroe | July 23, 2007 8:14 PM
Jessica -- No problem the UN has been involved with has ever been solved.
Posted by edward cropper | July 23, 2007 9:35 PM
I see where Obama is leading the pack in the Drudge vote for best debate performance.
If this doesn't show you how gullible the average voter is nothing will. His every answer was a cliché and scripted. He didn't deal with anything substantively but gave sugar coated answers that would appeal to the idiots in the audience.
It is enough to make you cry to think Americans are so desperate they would look to this no experience wannabe for national leadership.
I fear for the Republic my friends.
Posted by daytrader | July 23, 2007 10:02 PM
The most credible answers of the night came from the person of Chris Dodd. But I doubt many will notice.
From watching the streaming version the point which will not play well in flyover america will be the tepid at best response by both the audience and the candidates to the memorial moment for the lost Citadel graduates.
That will not sit well with a lot of people.
Posted by aileench | July 23, 2007 10:38 PM
While the U.S. government and media keep focusing on defense policies, campaign advertisement and the war in Iraq, 1.2 billion people in the world continue surviving on less than $1 dollar a day. I would like to our current “president” and the political leaders behind him, support more international problems that affect our place in this world, such as global poverty. We should not forget the commitment made towards the U.N. Millennium Goals (a pact of ending extreme world hunger by the year 2025) in 2000. While the U.S. government and media keep focusing on defense policies and the war in Iraq, 1.2 billion people in the world continue surviving on less than $1 dollar a day. According to The Borgen Project, an annual $19 billion dollars is needed to eliminate half of the extreme poverty affecting the world by the year 2015. To my sense, it is almost unacceptable to have spent so far more than $340 billion in Iraq only, when we have more than war immunities to change the world and eliminate poverty.
Posted by Mstessyrue | July 23, 2007 10:40 PM
It is very important that the presidential candidates will be addressing questions from youtube and the general public. Allow so far, most media attnention has focused on the war in Iraq, there are topics of critical concerns I would like our candidate to address. Issues such as Global Poverty should be one of the main concerns of all the presidential candidates. As one of the nation that has pledge to fulfill the goals of Millienium Development Project, whose goal is the elimination of world hunger and poverty, this administration has not shown any substantial action to bring this fundamental problem to a stop. According to the Borgen Project, dedicated to fighting and ending Poverty around the world, only $19 billion dollars are needed annually to stop world wide poverty, hunger and malnutrition. However, more than $340 billion dollars has been poured into this “war on terror.” And each year, our country has a military budge of $522 billion dollars. It's time for a new leader who will be addressing an issues that affects 1.2 billion people everyday worldwide.
Posted by richard mcenroe | July 23, 2007 11:08 PM
"The most credible answers of the night came from the person of Chris Dodd. But I doubt many will notice."
Yes! It's time for a new Rapist in Chief!
Posted by richard mcenroe | July 23, 2007 11:21 PM
"The most credible answers of the night came from the person of Chris Dodd. But I doubt many will notice."
Yes! It's time for a new Rapist in Chief!
Posted by gaffo | July 23, 2007 11:25 PM
Mr cropper sayeth:
"It is enough to make you cry to think Americans are so desperate they would look to this no experience wannabe for national leadership."
You talk of lack of experience - yet Lincoln had no more than Obama.
You talk of cliche/ and sugercoating - isn't that what Bush did when he ran in 2000?
and speaking of Bush - a man with an IQ lower than that of a Turnip - Obama with his utter lack of experience would HAVE to be an improvement over the utter retard we've had as Commander in Chief these last 8 long years..................
oh ya - your fear is noted. ;-).
Posted by AnonymousDrivel | July 23, 2007 11:43 PM
Ending poverty is certainly utopian. Maybe we could funnel all of this spam with its 'borgen project' seasoning to the cause.
Posted by FredRum | July 24, 2007 6:48 AM
gaffo, I'm waiting for you to post up your own full CV including GPA so we can see who the real "retard" is. Your eloquence and nuance gives me a good idea of what we'd find there...
Posted by gaffo | July 24, 2007 6:10 PM
Fred, don't blame me that you got dooped into voting for a Turnip for President of the United States!
you should be ashamed of yourself.
-sucker.