Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There was more political posturing on the Iran issue today, as 30 senators sent a letter to the White House “warning President Bush not to take offensive military action against Iran without the consent of Congress.”
Noticeably absent from the list of signatories is presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL.
According to its authors, the letter was […]
3 Comments »
Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
Pamela’s already noted that John Kerry is opposing him. Now it’s time for the principled stance everyone has been babbling about for other Democrats to take in the year since they regained power and torpedo the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey for AG. Now.
“In a letter to the 10 Democrats on the committee, Mr. Mukasey […]
5 Comments »
Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
We are seeing the results of a field candidates being forced into an attack posture to merely get some ‘ink.’ Is it a comment on the ability of other candidates to get the spotlight in a difficult campaign or is it a cleaned up version of the ‘Politics of Personal Destruction’?
The concerted hour long attack […]
1 Comment »
Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
As Andrew Sullivan notes, ”the NYT argues today that Michael Mukasey cannot condemn waterboarding as torture before he becomes AG because that would risk war crime prosecutions against many military and CIA personnel and those who authorized them, i.e. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al.”
Democrats are begining to line up in opposition against Mukasey.
Senator John Kerry announced […]
3 Comments »
Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
Markos, the creator of Daily Kos and the most influential blog owner, announced a new ‘policy’ that dramatically changes fundraising at Daily Kos. He and others are frustrated by the amount of mail received after making a campaign contribution.
Here’s Marko’s demand: “So here’s what I’m going to do — starting in December, I will NOT […]
4 Comments »
Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Wired is reporting on the Ron Paul SPAM story that I noted here the other day. The SPAM has been “laundered through a botnet,” which is ”a standard spammer practice,” and ”a decidedly illegal one.” Gary Warner, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s director of research in computer forensics, says, “”This is clearly a criminal act in […]
7 Comments »
Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi
I wasn’t sure I would make it, today! I’m just getting over my annual post-trick-or-treat sugar rush, I am finally up and at ‘em on this frosty Thursday morning.
I am proud to say that I finally got the candy to trick-or-treaters ratio “just right”, this year. We started with a large tote box full and […]
Comments Off
Filed under: In The News
