Filed at 8:33 pm, Tuesday December 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Yesterday, I wrote about Hillary:
By January 3rd, the date of the Iowa caucus, Clinton will have spent about 7 years in the Senate. And during that time, Clinton hasn’t stood out at all. She never made news, she hardly gave interviews, in fact, after the first month or two, everybody pretty much ignored her. There […]
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Filed at 4:33 pm, Tuesday December 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
AFSCME PEOPLE, a Washington DC-based lobbying and PAC group is spending unknown amounts of money to send thousands of early state voters a mailer which slams Senator Barack Obama’s health care plan, which it says leaves out 15 million Americans.
AFSCME is The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, a powerful union group that […]
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Filed at 1:19 pm, Tuesday December 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
According to the Times today, if you were to actually try and buy each gift from the old song “The 12 Days of Christmas,” it would actually set you back quite a few dollars in modern times:
Maids a-milking finally received a raise this year and gold prices jumped, a combination that made it more costly […]
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Filed at 1:04 pm, Tuesday December 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I suppose, given the fact that it is Christmas and millions of Americans are celebrating it, that the alleged war Billo and the rest keep trying to sell us on has failed once again. What’s the score now, Christian Defenders leading Secular Strawmen like 3-0?
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Filed at 5:32 pm, Monday December 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
By January 3rd, the date of the Iowa caucus, Clinton will have spent about 7 years in the Senate. And during that time, Clinton hasn’t stood out at all. She never made news, she hardly gave interviews, in fact, after the first month or two, everybody pretty much ignored her. There were always voices louder […]
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Filed at 2:40 pm, Monday December 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The Times’ Krugman has an opinion piece in today’s paper criticizing Obama, and his criticism is getting some criticism around the blogosphere. Here’s Krugman:
But now Mr. Obama has lashed out at Mr. Edwards because two 527s — independent groups that are allowed to support candidates, but are legally forbidden from coordinating directly with their campaigns […]
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Filed at 1:43 pm, Monday December 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Thomas Kean, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, discusses the revelations that the CIA had secret torture tapes that included interrogations of individuals that the Commission asked the CIA to turn over.
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Filed at 11:54 am, Monday December 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
As the old Bush Administration saying goes, “Nobody could have predicted [fill in the blank].” That’s what Condelleza Rice claimed, when asked to reflect on memos she had read that proclaimed “bin Laden determined to strike U.S.” Bush Administration officials and FEMA said much the same when Hurricane Katrina caught them off guard– despite the […]
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Filed at 8:54 pm, Sunday December 23rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Obama discusses electability versus Hillary on Face The Nation today (also includes a clip from Meet The Press discussing the same topic).
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Filed at 4:02 pm, Sunday December 23rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I have to say, as far as voter outreach is concerned, the family here in New Hampshire has gotten a lot more contact from Edwards and Clinton folks than from Obama’s.
It’s just anecdotal of course, and it may be a fluke, but in everything from phone calls to direct mail pieces to door knockers, there’s […]
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Filed at 1:42 pm, Sunday December 23rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I think this video from Meet The Press today pretty much speaks for itself. It’s largely representative of Paul’s appearance on MTP, for most of which he sounded like a babbling old libertarian who had trouble defending his positions, past actions, and past statements (more than once when a less than flattering newspaper account was […]
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Filed at 11:21 am, Sunday December 23rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
If you haven’t stopped looking at polls already, please do.
The January 3rd Iowa caucus is known in polling circles as notoriously difficult to poll because it largely depends on two wildly unpredictable factors: voter turnout (only about 6-7% of the state actually shows up for their caucuses) and second choices (if a candidate like Biden […]
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Filed at 1:30 am, Sunday December 23rd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Hilariously enough, some Ron Paul supporters delude themselves into thinking their candidate is “leading in the national polls!“
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Filed at 4:00 pm, Saturday December 22nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
New revelations show how close we came to rounding up political dissidents Stalin-style:
A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July […]
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Filed at 2:26 pm, Saturday December 22nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The above photo, left to right, is of Ron Paul, Don Black, and Derek Black. Who are the father and son combo pictured with the Republican presidential candidate?
The founders and proprietors of Stormfront.org, a notorious neo-nazi White supremacist hate site that encourages violence against minorities, and, according to Wikipedia, “often discuss the possibility of a […]
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