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Late Night April Fool’s: The Bowl Off

“Obama’s Bowling-Gate Scandal Rocks America” and Hillary Clinton challenges Obama to a Bowl-Off:

And could this be more April Fools Day tricks… “How Did Obama Hijack HillaryClinton.Com?“

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Congress Questions Big Oil’s Big Profits

Big Oil’s record profits are no joke to Congress on April Fools Day: “When it comes to public opinion, Congress isn’t held in very high regard, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver reminded executives of the country’s biggest oil companies.”

Then the Missouri Democrat added, “Your approval rating is lower than ours, and that means you’re down low.”
So it [...]

Fact Check: Obama’s Oil Spill

Obama would do well to think about OpenSecrets.org next time he makes a claim like “I don’t take money from oil companies.”
FactCheck.org calls Obama to task on his misleading statement from his new ad:

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Hillary and Obama Supporters

Around the progressive blogosphere there’s a lot of discussion over the split of Democratic support for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. While women are turning out in droves for Hillary, some younger women lean towards Obama. Here’s a slice of humor from Ann Telnaes on that note: Hillary and Obama Supporters.

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Progressive Fundamentalism

I want to talk more about what I see as The Progressive’s Deal With The Devil, but one thing kept coming to mind. It’s a passage from a book review I wrote a couple years ago:
The desire to purge ideas that are different is not monopolized by religion or the Right. One only has to [...]

Clinton and Rocky: They Don’t Quit

From AP News in Philly: “Perhaps the analogy was inevitable: Hillary Rodham Clinton as Rocky Balboa the scrappy underdog boxer from Philadelphia memorably depicted in the 1976 Oscar-winning film. Even if Rocky did lose his first big fight.”
Addressing a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Tuesday, the former first lady and New York senator said that she, [...]

Breaking: Al Gore Will Run for President

A lot of Democrats still hold on to hope that Al Gore will run for president again. Well, hope no longer… Grist.org has the scoop, which just arrived in my email box: Al Gore Will Run for President:
You might want to sit down for this: Al Gore will announce his candidacy for president this week, [...]

Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up

No kidding, it’s April Fool’s Day and there are a whole lot of April Fools in the news and, alas, none of them are very funny.
Just for fun, I thought you all would get a kick out of the footage of GWB getting booed: Bush booed at 2008 Nationals home opener
There will probably be a [...]

Keep The Momentum Going…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKY8J_FYlbM

Keep the momentum going…

Late Night: The Untold Story of How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan

For everyone who’s had concerns about the mess with Michigan and Florida and those who knew there was more amiss than they thought, the HuffPo has the definitive read on “How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan,” written by Wayne Barrett who has been “a staff writer and senior editor at the Village Voice for 30 [...]