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| richardson fundraising aside
Filed at 11:23 pm, Sunday September 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
3rdQ: Richardson raised $5.2M in third quarter donations.
Unveiling the Automaki theme
Filed at 7:42 pm, Sunday September 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
As you can already tell if you’re reading this on the website itself (not the RSS feed), I’ve just set up the new theme that I’ve been promising approximately forever. Quite different, isn’t it?
It’s loaded with new features, and I’ll be rolling out a few more in the coming days. First, the layout looks quite […]
aside: happy birthday c&l
Filed at 7:22 pm, Sunday September 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Happy birthday to Crooks and Liars, which turns three today!
Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part IV)
Filed at 4:31 pm, Sunday September 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
The latest in my series of Very Serious analysis of Hillary’s laughter. This one is from Reliable Sources on CNN today.
Earlier:
Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part I)
Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part II)
Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part III)
McCain hurriedly tries to backtrack on bigoted interview comments
Filed at 1:10 pm, Sunday September 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
In response to the hubbub about a recent interview on religion (video mashup of the most outrageous moments above), John McCain has issued the following statement:
“I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the candidate best able to lead the country and defend our political values.”
Clearly, this flies in the face of […]
Lazy as a fox, part 9,823,490,823
Filed at 12:58 pm, Sunday September 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Fred Thompson, being lazy like a fox:
… when Mr. Thompson left the Senate and was appointed to a bipartisan commission that advises Congress on Chinese threats to national security, his concern did not translate into regular attendance. Although Mr. Thompson nods to his membership in a campaign video, the panel’s minutes show that of the […]
Tit for tat
Filed at 8:14 pm, Saturday September 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Anything you condemn, I condemn better, I condemn anything better than you:
Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping […]
Video- John McCain on anyone who’s not his religion
Filed at 5:07 pm, Saturday September 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Would he be willing to vote for a non-Christian candidate? You tell me.
Update: McCain contradicts himself in trying to limit the damage from this interview here.
Jenna on abstinence
Filed at 3:03 pm, Saturday September 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
On Jenna Bush, pictured at right:
Safe sex is encouraged through-out her new book, even though the Bush administration’s hotly contested HIV-prevention campaign was built around a staunch “abstinence only” message. “In Africa my dad’s policies are pretty much in line with mine, but not domestically,” says Bush, referring to her father’s ABC (abstain, be faithful, […]
Aw shucks
Filed at 1:59 pm, Saturday September 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Looks like we won’t have Newt to kick around after-all. Still, as comical late entries go, Alan Keyes is pretty much a godsend anyways…
Cartoon of the day
Filed at 1:27 pm, Saturday September 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Mike Luckovich. Genius.
Congress to take up Limbaugh’s comments
Filed at 12:07 pm, Saturday September 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Color me surprised:
On Monday, Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) will introduce a resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh’s comments that troops who support withdrawal from Iraq are “phony soldiers.†In a dear colleague letter, Udall says the resolution will honor “all Americans serving in the Armed Forces†while “condemning†Limbaugh’s “unwarranted attack.â€
On the one hand, I think this […]
3rdQ fundraising expectations
Filed at 10:57 pm, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
The FEC’s third quarter fundraising deadline is midnight Saturday Sunday, which means we should hear the first leaked or formally announced numbers coming out of campaigns fairly soon. I doubt there’ll be any exciting leaks this quarter though, cause the 3rdQ is always the slowest and so the campaigns may be dragging their feet a […]
In the Valley of Elah
Filed at 10:38 pm, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
I just got back from seeing In the Valley of Elah (trailer below). Good movie. There’s a line where one soldier, frustrated with the war says to another character “I never would have said this before I went there, but now I think we should just nuke it [Iraq] and be done with it,” to […]
On Burma/Myanmar
Filed at 6:14 pm, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
With regard to the situation in Burma/Myanmar, how much do you really need to know about it to form an opinion, other than the fact that the Myanmarese government has censored its own newspapers, shot foreign journalists to death and switched off all internet access for all of its citizens to prevent them from communicating […]
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