US Election 2002: It was about winning at all costs
A fourth man has been charged with taking part in a Republican scheme to jam Democrats’ get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002.

A Succinct Summary of the U.S. Election
The Democrats’ mistake was in thinking that a disastrous war, National bankruptcy, erosion of liberties, corporate takeover of government, environmental destruction, squandering our economic and moral leadership in the world, and systematic lying by the Administration would be of concern to the electorate.
The Republicans correctly saw that the chief […]

Prohibited items at the 55th presidential inaugural ceremony
Firearms, weapons of any kind, ammunition (either real or simulated), explosives of any kind (including fireworks), knives, blades, or sharp objects (of any length), aerosol sprays, coolers, thermal or glass containers, mace, pepper spray, sticks, poles, pocket or hand tools (such as a leatherman), packages, backpacks, large bags, […]

Does it? Huh? Can we make it a gate? Everything else seems to be a “gate” these days…. north and south of the border. How about Bush-gate? Agenda-gate? Payola-gate? Hypa-grate? Election-gate? I’m gonna be one real disappointed leftie if this doesn’t get turned into some kind of gate before it’s done with.

It’s the end of the world as we know it has found out what the Christians hanging out on the far right bank of the main stream believe Bush is gonna do for them…. go read it, it would be funny if I didn’t think there were so damned many of them who thought that […]

‘The post, via ACT linking The Michael Badnarik site, carrying this article about a couple of presidential candidates Americans probably know little about poses some interesting questions.
The major media networks have been willfully ignoring alternative voices in this presidential election, focusing only on the two major parties, Democratic and Republican. We acknowledge that the majority […]

…yet to be determined. Hey, do you think I don’t read my own postings? No-one will know who “won” until the actual impact of the debate is measured in terms of national levels of support for either candidate. Given that criterion, Kerry “won” the first debate, and Cheney-Edwards was a tie. […]

I suggested the other day that John Kerry had “won” the presidential debate. Despite much discussion from various quarters in media and blogdom, it seemed to me fairly obvious. The objective of the debates was to win support. Kerry’s ratings rose immediately following the debates. Therefore…
Days later, many of our Republican Blogbrothers south of the […]

Subtitled: My boss is better than your boss 2004
I had hoped for better - but on reflection probably should have expected little, if any, more than the parroting of their respective presidential candidates positions and words that we saw.
Both did good jobs and Edwards did the one thing that was absolutely necessary for him to […]

Was John Kerry trying to pull something at the debate last week?
That question was burning up the Internet yesterday after a slo-mo review of the footage showed the Massachusetts senator taking an object out of his right pocket before the first question.
Was it a cheat sheet — as some conservative bloggers claimed — or was […]

‘Debate among pundits over who “won” the “debate” is really pretty silly. Success is measured by the degree to which outcomes match objectives. Each candidate had the same objective for the “debate”…to increase the number of voters who support them. By all accounts and polls, Kerry did. Bush didn’t. Therefore […]

‘When Bush came out with his “now let me finish”ring the debate I commented at the time that I thought it was an error - thinking that he had thought the moderator was about to cut him off and was ordering him not to.
Bush also made, I think, a critical error when […]

According to (Right)WingNut Rusty Humphries Cat Stevens plays devil music - please follow the link and check out the picture he’s got on the front page… a rocket launcher, a machine gun, and a bull whip? Now there’s a guy with some issues, just the type of fella qualified to host a syndicated talk show […]

TalkLeft, the politics of crime has done the research - this is what the editorials are saying.
Eschaton has the goods on web polls.
What is interesting is the reports of ties, at least one figure as high as 30%. Only the most fanatically partisan of Republican viewers could call what happened last night a tie, it […]

‘In a wander through the mixedwingnut-o-sphere this morning I came across We Asked For It at Right Voices - it being the release of Stolen Honor - and since I’m not a dogmatic leftie by anyones [reasonable] yard stick I downloaded it to see what all the hype was about. While downloading it I […]