Archive for April, 2007
Posted in April 12th, 2007
No, this isn’t anything about the Bush administration, it’s about the United States’ Anti-Doping Agency which is entrusting the retesting of some of Floyd Landis’ B samples to the French lab that by any account is grossly incompetent. Bonnie DeSimone (the best American writer on cycling in the mainstream press) covers the story for ESPN. […]
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
Got to hand it to Brad Cole–he’s loyal–SRCP did ads for both Jim Ryan in 2002 and Topinka in 2006. Not the best track record here.
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Posted in April 12th, 2007
First–correction it wasn’t KOMPAC, the explanation from the initial reports of the media buys were the PAC from Virginia. This was confusion from the previous donation, but the ad buy is directly from the Cole campaign and is being bought by Stevens, Reed, Curcio, and Potolm a GOP firm apparently hired by the Cole campaign–and […]
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Posted in April 11th, 2007
As noted earlier this morning here, and confirmed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates this afternoon, “Tours of duty for members of the U.S. Army will be extended from 12 months to 15 months effective immediately.” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: “The Defense Department announcement today that all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve […]
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Posted in April 11th, 2007
Is who is paying the staffers on the ground? Cole’s reports don’t list any salary payments and there are no payments for staff listed in the database as benefiting Brad Cole. Given the reports of the staff being on the ground for some time, that’s very curious.
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Posted in April 11th, 2007
Granted, $16,000 isn’t much in media heavy markets, but this is a race for Mayor of Carbondale where the opponent is limiting donations to $50. I’m working on confirming the details, but the money appears to be from Denny Hastert’s KOMPAC (Keep Our Majority Mission). KOMPAC already donated $1000 in Cole’s last report, but nothing […]
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Posted in April 11th, 2007
Pretty much. Emmanuel says the fact that three top retired military officers have rejected the post should show Bush that’s something is deeply wrong with the course he’s chosen. Emmanuel says Bush should realize there already is a war czar: The President, the Commander in Chief as required by the U.S. constitution.
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Posted in April 11th, 2007
When you are invested in vote fraud being a problem, evidence doesn’t matter Though the original report said that among experts “there is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud,” the final version of the report released to the public concluded in its executive summary that “there is a great […]
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Posted in April 11th, 2007
Chicago has the worst mail service No, Saint Louis has the worst mail service. Trust me as I’ve had both my power turned off and phone turned off because I never received a bill.
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Posted in April 10th, 2007
I only wrote the pithy post on Imus before because I generally have never understood why any politician goes on the show given the numerous offensive comments he makes on a daily basis. But then Vivian Stringer discussed the incident and I remember what an amazing woman she is. She has been coaching for decades […]
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Posted in April 9th, 2007
Teh Stupid It burns It’s a bit weird given this and thousands of other examples. Except for a momentary defection to independent candidate Ross Perot in 1992, Luntz has been a Republican operative who has counseled Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani and Trent Lott. But he often has worked for the media and made comments too […]
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Posted in April 9th, 2007
What is new about Don Imus’ behavior? If you want him fired now, why didn’t you want him fired before?
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Posted in April 9th, 2007
It’s not a new claim But that doesn’t stop Jill Stanek from pushing the most recent urban legend. The article she links to is a summary of an article by The Next Magazine in Epoch Times. Of course, Epoch Times has a colorful history claiming 100,000 people in modern day concentration camps and live […]
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Posted in April 9th, 2007
Just impeach them. Theres’ a certain breaking point that probably should have hit me about 4 years ago, but today there’s no more denying that this administration is the most corrupt and incompetent group of buffoons ever to hold the executive of the United States of America: I am posting the below with the permission […]
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Posted in April 6th, 2007
It’s a $50 limit so you have no excuse to not helping Sheila. It’s people powered politics versus the IL GOP.
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