There has been much talk that now Bush will move to the middle in his second term. I long felt this wasnt the case, he didn't try much during the first 4 years, why does he need to now when he has a true mandate. He noted shortly after the election that a record number of people voted for him last tuesday ( Read more... )

Remember the bulge on the back of Bush's suit during the 1st debate? The secret service says now it was a bullet proof vest. They didnt want anyone to know before because it would give away details of campaign security.

Found here: http://www.hillnews.com/under_dome/

When driving on Friday, I heard this story on NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4133515 , about challenges to voters elgibility. It states that ( Read more... )

Apparently the Washington Redskins are good predictors of presidential elections. If they win the last home game before the election, the incumbent's party wins. Today was the last homegame before teusday. The 'skins lost to Green Bay 28-14. In my opinion this is very significant. Not only will bush lose the election, it will be partly due to ( Read more... )

I saw the other day an attack add funded by the RNC against Jon Jennings, who is running against John Hostettler for the 8th district here. The add was one of the worst that I have seen. Not the worst in terms of most negative, but hte worst in terms of being completely assinine ( Read more... )

Slate has a review of an interesting art exhibihit found here: http://slate.com/id/2108216/Read more... )

Oil prices today hit the $55/bbl. mark today. While this is not as high as inflation adjusted prices from 1981, they are still high. If oil prices were causing the economy to drag when they were $40/bbl., what's happening now? Of course there have been some unforseen events reducing production (hurricanes, Russia's shut down of Yukos Oil) but ( Read more... )

I thought the third presidential debate was closer than the first, but not such a tie as the second. One of the most interesting things i heard was this quote from president bush ( Read more... )

I haven't seen any official statistics, but it appears that the number of suicide bombings around the world have increased. This is especially true in pakistan where the third bombing this month killed 3 outside a Mosque in eastern pakistan. This is a tactic that can never really win for the side using it, but it is unfortunately effective enough ( Read more... )

One of the funny things from last night's debate was when Dick Cheney told America to go to factcheck.com to check the truth behind the halliburton claims made by John Edwards. There are two problems with that. First the claims made by edwards are currently under investigation and have not been substatiated or disproved yet. Second it is ( Read more... )