Tax issues and lobbyist links strike another Obama cabinet pick

Oops:
Tom Daschle, tapped to be President Obama’s health czar, was paid more than $200,000 by the health-care industry in the past two years, according to documents obtained by Politico.
The former Senate majority leader, who gave speeches to firms and groups with a vested-interest in the administration’s upcoming health reform, collected the checks as part of [...]

AFP

Iran says Obama’s offer to talk shows US failure

Tiger Hawk

The normalization of Iraqi democracy?

Times Online

Two children should be limit, says green guru

NOTW

Michael Phelps: Pothead?

Mark Steyn

Stimulated right into being another Europe

Comments editor plugin – another update

The investigation into why the comments editor no longer works in IE has produced concrete results, via the very patient steveegg. He spent a lot of time tonight trying to figure out what the problem was, and as it turns out, the comments editor doesn’t work because it’s clashing with another plugin I have [...]

Damn! I miss Sarah Palin

Wouldn’t it kick a** right now if it were Sarah Palin sitting in the veep’s chair and not Joe “Gaffetastic” Biden?

2012, maybe? (Update: This is actually the official Sarah Palin PAC link – thanks to Anthony for the heads up)
Related: Obama and Palin attending same weekend dinner

My responses to select spam email headlines

I never respond to spam email, but tonight, I thought I’d give it a try – after all, they can’t ALL mean nasty and vulgar things, can they? I mean, the email headlines may really not mean what we think it does. Examples:
“Get lucky every night.”
Yeah? You mean like with the lottery or [...]

CNS

Is a filibuster by Senate Republicans in the works over the stimulus bill?