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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 (15)
Posted by Sue | August 14, 2007 10:22 AM
Hypocrisy thy
name is Hillary. Deceit ,
thy name is Bubba.
Posted by RBMN | August 14, 2007 10:40 AM
It's none of our business which defense lawyers, private investigators, foreign contributor bagmen, public relations consultants, terrorists, union officials, furniture movers, or criminal pardon negotiators she met with as First Lady. Just trust her. It was all valuable experience that will come in handy when she gets back into the White House.
Posted by i b squidly | August 14, 2007 10:55 AM
The hero of the army of Genghis Khan, John Kerry hid his military records as well. The Dems have only rhetoric and posturing. It works to better effect when the record is what they can say it is. Casual observations of fact are smears and attacks.
I'm reminded of Benjamin the mule reading the barn.
Posted by docjim505 | August 14, 2007 11:35 AM
Say... Didn't she try to hide the records when she was trying (oh so valiantly!) to save the US health care system back when Slick was in the Oval Office?
Posted by JAT | August 14, 2007 11:48 AM
Hillary will release her records - as soon as Sandy Burger pays a little visit to the Clinton Library.
Posted by IanY77 | August 14, 2007 11:56 AM
Yep sealing records just shows you have something to hide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31
In fact I would argue that someone who engages in that level of secrecy has no business being in the White House.
Posted by RBMN | August 14, 2007 12:35 PM
Re: IanY77 at August 14, 2007 11:56 AM
She has every right to seal them. But hard for her to say then, that's her major experience qualification for the office. What experience? She can't have it both ways. She says she was involved in policy discussions. Was she in the room? Was it on her daily schedule? Or did her "policy discussions" consist mostly of pillow talk?
Posted by Nedra Lee | August 14, 2007 3:30 PM
Hillary literally scares me to death. That she would be the Pres is a fright beyond compare.
Talk about Socialism!!! In spades baby... in spades
Posted by dhunter | August 14, 2007 3:37 PM
Seriously, RBMN pillow talk with whom? Certainly not with Monicas Boyfriend. Vince Foster maybe, or maybe she was sneakink into the Lincoln Bedroom after all the Rooms for rent light was constantly on, maybe the Red Light as well!
Didn't some FBI files go missing as well maybe under a pillow?
Posted by Del Dolemonte | August 14, 2007 3:46 PM
This reminds me of how Hillary's husband-of-convenience, our former President, broke long-established Presidential tradition by refusing to release his medical history.
At the time, Clinton's defenders said it was no big deal. But Dr. Raymond Scalettar, a former Chairman of the Board of the Trustees of the AMA, had this to say about Presidential candidates releasing their medical records:
"For private individuals, medical records should be strictly confidential. But a presidential candidate is the potential leader not only of this nation but of the world. The issue is different there. A candidate's medical conditions and treatments are directly relevant to the decision the electorate must make.
Health can affect a candidate's campaigning too, and when that happens we should know about it. In the 1960 campaign I was involved in the care of then Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who injured himself and developed a septic arthritis in his knee that required a 2-week hospital stay.
It has been said that vice president Nixon's illness and recovery which was delayed by a relapse, was the reason that he looked wan and haggard on television during the debate with Sen. John F. Kennedy about 1 month later.
The illness certainly affected his candidacy. Nixon lost by a narrow margin. We were open about the vice president's condition and treatment at the time and we needed to be. When someone is running for an office as important as president, there should be no room for misunderstanding."
The good doctor of course is too polite to note that the other side in 1960 kept John F. Kennedy's Addison's Disease as secret as they could.
As for Hillary, if she's running on her record as First Lady, why is she trying to keep that record hidden? She's obviously hiding something...
Posted by Cyrus (Little General) | August 14, 2007 7:11 PM
This is extremely significant. Of course she is hiding something. If Democrats love these worthless wild goose chases which amounts to nothing, why should we be shunned by something that would be worthwhile to all.
This is almost as good as finding what is hidden in Area 51 and who shot JFK. My guess is that we would be able to deduce if Vince Foster was "whacked" by Hillary and her cronies. That would be something- wouldn't it?
I just hope she doesn't have personal access to the library and do a "Sandy Berger."
Posted by Del Dolemonte | August 14, 2007 7:23 PM
Actually, there is a totally innocent explanation for this-maybe this stuff is being kept "secret" because there's absolutely nothing there? As in NOTHING she "did" as co-President ever went anywhere.
After all, it later turned out that one reason Jean-Claude Kerry hid some of his military records was because it showed he actually had lower SAT scores than that doofus Dubyah.
Posted by Andrew P | August 14, 2007 8:27 PM
Hillary's secrets are irrelevant. No one really cares, and the DOD bureaucracy won't allow them to be released until they can be screened for classified info anyway. That can take decades to do.
No matter how much Hillary scares me (and she does), her 2 "first tier" dem opponents (Obama and Phoney-Baloney Edwards) scare me a lot more. I would take Hillary any day over those two.
"Hillary literally scares me to death. That she would be the Pres is a fright beyond compare.
Talk about Socialism!!! In spades baby... in spadesPosted by: Nedra Lee at August 14, 2007 3:30 PM "
Posted by Hugh Beaumont | August 14, 2007 11:15 PM
I'm still waiting for an update on all the Asian donors to Ma Clinton and Co. who fled from Fed investigations.
I'm still waiting for more information on Johnny Chung.
Wasn't an envelope containing $50,000 dollars handed to Maggie Williams in the White House?
Perhaps someone will ask Ma Clinton these questions.
Posted by Cornellian | August 15, 2007 2:30 AM
Presumably President Bush will suport her if she claims executive privilege. She was, after all, an advisor to President Bill Clinton.