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by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In preparing Yet Another Al Gore Speculation Post, I was thumbing through the SurveyUSA 50 state approval ratings. The one I find most striking is Indiana’s. Over the past three months, Bush has lost 10 points in the Hoosier State, but only 6 in South Dakota, 5 in neighboring […]

(Posted by John.) Lest anyone think otherwise, net neutrality is a real concern. Here in Canada, Shaw (a cable provider) is charging people who use a VOIP client other than Shaw’s own a $10 fee. So what do we do if/when we lose this fight? To find the answer, we have to travel to Utah, […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf So what’s the deal with the fake news coming out of Iran? We all heard these reports that Jews were being made to wear yellow badges. Turns out — not true. And we get all these misquotations of Iranian leaders, especially regarding their intentions towards Israel. Clearly, the media is […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Last week I mentioned some election shenanigans taking place in the NOLA City Council races. They didn’t work. Despite being outspent by a 5-to-1 margin, Shelley Stephenson Midura (D) ousted Jay Batt (R), the sole Republican on the council. Local pundits are calling it one of the biggest political […]

Shakes here… Last Monday, Karl Rove said that the president’s dwindling popularity was due to decreasing support of the Iraq war–not to a dislike of the president himself. “People like this president,” he asserted. “They’re just sour right now on the war.” Eh, not so much. It’s not just the way he’s doing his job. […]

(Posted by John.) If you haven’t seen the ads by the Competitive Enteprise Institute yet, you really gotta. It’s exactly the kind of thing you’d expect the carbon lobby to put together, complete with little girl blowing on a flower. Of course, we should all remember that one of the first campaign promises that Bush […]

(Posted by John.) Neil raises some excellent points about Gore. My responses below the fold, but in short, I don’t see where Gore has weaknesses that the rest of the Democratic field won’t.

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Lots of my friends are very excited about the possibility of a Gore 2008 candidacy. (I remember when the announcement hit Daily Kos that Gore had hired back one of his consultants from 2000. The Kossacks were so excited that Gore might be running again that they actually forgot to […]