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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 (5)
Posted by mrlynn | July 31, 2007 6:06 AM
Republicans should follow Newt Gingrich's advice and refuse to participate in any more 'amateur hour' cattle shows, which demean and diminish the office of the presidency.
Instead they should create a series of one-on-one debates, of 90 minutes each, one a day until all the candidates have had the opportunity of debating each of the others, and then start over.
In these true debates, there should be no questions from anyone, other than the candidates themselves, and the function of the moderator will be just to keep time.
They will air on C-Span and on the Internet.
/Mr Lynn
Posted by George Sobon | July 31, 2007 6:26 AM
Why does no one bring into this conversation the fact that the Democrats canceled the Fox news debate? The Fox news republican debate was by far the best mediated debate this political season. I think that was a much more egregious snub then the Republicans missing the YouTube debate.
Posted by edward cropper | July 31, 2007 6:53 AM
What can the Republicans lose by ignoring this Ted Mack YouTube presentation?
The majority of people I know who are involved with YouTube are young people. They are for the most part air heads.
The questions asked the Democrats were really juvenile and lacking in depth.
I see where some Republicans"leaders" are saying we can't afford to pass up this opportunity since the Dems
had participated. Brilliant! let's follow the Dem-wits since they are so gifted in public relations.
The Republicans should go to FoxNews, have Brit Hume, Major Garret, Juan Williams,and Chris Wallace ask the
questions and let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by GOP08_DOA | July 31, 2007 8:30 AM
"What more can the Republicans lose by ignoring this Ted Mack YouTube presentation?"
Posted by: edward cropper
I fixed that for you edward. Since the news that republicans are considering bucking the YouTube format is now getting some mainstream airplay, I'll go on record as saying that republicans who refuse to "face the music" stand to lose much more than they can actually afford.
By all means, skip it though. Doing so will only provide yet another republican "mis-step" for the dems to pounce upon and use to their ultimate advantage.
Posted by BewareTheCreeper | August 1, 2007 2:48 AM
Like someone else said in American Spectator, I think, if you want the MORON vote then You Tube is going to be Disneyworld. When even JOE BIDEN said the questions were stupid and a waste of time, well......! No one ever accused HIM of being a quick study! ;-)