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Bad news for Democrats: USSC rejects challenge to Indiana voter ID laws

Posted by: ST on April 28, 2008 at 12:24 pm » 35 Comments

Via AP: WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters [...]

 

Rev. Wright’s 2008 “Look at Me” tour

Posted by: ST on April 28, 2008 at 10:44 am » 9 Comments

I’ve read at some blogs that Obama’s “former” pastor Jeremiah Wright is on a “rehab” tour to restore his image, but I wouldn’t call it that because as far as many of the groups he’s talking to are concerned, there’s no rehab or restoration needed. They love him. And he’s eating it up. Memeorandum has [...]

 

Charlotte Observer endorses “progressive” Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory for the Republican primary for governor

Posted by: ST on April 27, 2008 at 8:50 pm » 11 Comments

It’s sort of like the NYT’s endorsement of McCain earlier this year – it’s not an endorsement a true conservative desires, but then again, Charlotte’s 7-term mayor isn’t really a true conservative. He just plays one on TV. On their editorial page this morning, the Observer opined: But the leading candidate in this [Republican] race [...]

 

Sunday afternoon links (OPEN THREAD)

Posted by: ST on April 27, 2008 at 3:48 pm » 2 Comments

Some links for your perusal: —– What she said: The Rev. Al Sharpton is threatening to “close down the city” of New York in outrage over last week’s acquittals of three NYPD officers in the shooting death of Sean Bell. The race-hustling Sharpton is doing what he does best, accusing the NYPD and the court [...]

 

Barack Obama’s interview on Fox News Sunday

Posted by: ST on April 27, 2008 at 1:39 pm » 4 Comments

After nearly two years of “the silent treatment,” Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace a few days ago. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters has a good rundown of the questions Wallace asked, which were a lot tougher than he gets from most reporters in the media, and notes how [...]

 

NYT’s latest McCain hit piece leaves out crucial bit of information

Posted by: ST on April 27, 2008 at 10:55 am » 3 Comments

This is, what, the third or fourth attempt by the NYT to squeeze a scandal out of the Mc? Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets. The law, which [...]

 

Hillary to Obama: Debate me one on one – no moderators

Posted by: ST on April 26, 2008 at 7:27 pm » 11 Comments

The AP reports that Hillary is ramping up the pressure on Barack Obama to debate her before the NC and Indiana primaries, this time, without moderators: MARION, Ind. – Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge [...]

 

Site access issues

Posted by: ST on April 26, 2008 at 1:09 pm » 1 Comment

Apologies for the site access issues many of you have experienced today. I don’t know what’s going on, but I contacted my hosting service about an hour and a half ago. Haven’t heard back from them, but it looks like the site has come back up in the last twenty minutes or so. This sucks [...]

 

Help Cindy Sheehan run against Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: ST on April 26, 2008 at 11:02 am » 12 Comments

Last August, I blogged about former Nutroots darling Cindy Sheehan’s announcement that she was going to run as an “independent candidate” against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because of her refusal to impeach President Bush for “war crimes.” On Friday, she was at City Hall in SF filing the papers necessary to run: Peace activist Cindy [...]

 

Remind me never to get on his bad side

Posted by: ST on April 25, 2008 at 8:48 pm » 3 Comments

Rick Moran has one of the most devastating takedowns of a typical Barack Obama apologist I’ve seen yet. We’ve all come across them – whether they be in the blogosphere or on the pages of the NYT, or just standing there by the water cooler. Many of them infuriating types because they express the same [...]