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Kid gets tasered in Florida at a Kerry speech because he talked over his time and resisted police. I’m just going to presume you’ve already heard the story.
But what is up with the public outcry over this tasering? Everywhere I look, news agencies are pumping out stories about how this is an egregious violation of […]

I absolutely abhor Fox News. This isn’t like my moderate disdain for useless celebrities or judicial activist who champion judicial restraint- this is full fledged loathing. During this particularly slow news week, Fox has gotten even worse than usual after reporting consecutive stories about Miss New Jersey, missing girls and missing girls. Its cool and […]

Every election cycle, the media bemoans the fact that campaigns start earlier than ever. Even at the congressional level, members of the house of representatives who are in contested districts usually begin their reelection campaign right after the previous election ended. In an attempt […]

It has been a busy couple of weeks for all those folks runnin’ for President!
Of course, everyone has something to say about Bush’s decision to commute ol’ Scooter’s sentence (you can find a detailed and thought-provoking run down here, courtesy of DryFlyPolitics). Then, yesterday, the final fundraising numbers for the previous quarter came in. […]

So, as some of you may know, I read polls. And, while combing through the November 9-12 National Omnibus Poll by RT Strategies for the Cook Political Report, I discovered that RT Strategies doesn’t know how to spell Barack Obama:

RT Strategies is one of the most respected pollsters in the nation. Their typical margin of […]

Kedar and I have been working semi-religiously on perfecting the 2008 Election Tracker (so much so that we both conspicuously missed Saturday’s debate (OOPS!)). Anyway, our spiffy new graphs are really, really neat and can be found below.
Democratic Primary Race (click the thumbnail to enlarge via lightbox):

^^^(NOTE: I re-keyed Gore as greeen in an (unsuccessful) […]

Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the national meeting of the United Church of Christ on June 23. He talked about the role of religion in politics, and you’ve probably heard something about it via popular news sources.
The Associated Press reported that Obama told the church crowd, “right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized […]

ABC News will never cease to entertain. After a wonderfully biased article glorifying their recent win in the ratings battle, they post a rather ridiculous article about fourth-party candidates in the 2008 elections.
Best parts of the article:
Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey is running for president as the candidate for the Vampire, Witches and Pagan Party.
Sharkey is […]

In case any of you missed the ending of The Sopranos that occurred a few weeks ago, I just found it on YouTube. The Sopranos has amassed a massive fanbase during its 7 season run and now that the show has ended, we can all expect shows down the road to pay homage to it. […]

ABC News posted an awesome article online today entitled ‘2nd Place A New World For Brian Williams.’ Oddly enough, this article about the ‘Nightly News’ has been filed under their ‘entertainment’ category.
I’m sure you are all well-aware of the battle that has been going on between ABC and NBC but this article from ABC just […]

Antonin Scalia was caught fawning over the glory of Jack Bauer. Enjoy:
The conservative jurist stuck up for Agent Bauer, arguing that fictional or not, federal agents require latitude in times of great crisis. “Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. … He saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Judge Scalia said. Then, recalling Season 2, where the […]

YouTube has been big for years, but today it outdid itself. The announcement of the YouTube/CNN debate and the viral Obamagirl video both spread like wildfire around the blogosphere and even the mainstream media.
Anderson Cooper and the crew at CNN have decided to throw together a new debate format that is sure to change […]

This morning, a friend of mine directed me to the blog of Matt Browner-Hamlin, who works for Presidential Candidate Chris Dodd (D-CT). It seems that Browner-Hamlin has recorded (and graphed!) how much time has been devoted to each of the candidates during the New Hampshire Primary debates. The Democratic “talk clock” can be found here, […]

Earlier this week, the editorial board of The Dallas Morning News endorsed Tom Leppert in the Dallas mayoral runoff election to be held June 16. Unsurprisingly, they got this one wrong.
The best candidate is City Hall veteran Ed Oakley. Oakley, 54, is an experienced city councilman who currently serves as chair of the Trinity River […]

I must admit that when it first dawned on me that Paris Hilton was really going to jail, I was smiling for hours. I have a warm feeling inside knowing that the age-old dictum ‘what goes around comes around‘ is here to stay.
In September of 2006 she received a DUI. Her license was suspended […]