Moonage Political Webdream

First, she lost this one: Now, a lot’s being said about that one, but I think it’s over-rated as far as the average voter goes. He’s popular in Boston, but that’s about it. The only thing it does show is a crack in the Clinton “establishment”. Bill & Ted go back a long way, I’m [...]

Apparently Barry Manilow decided to take a stand.  He will NOT perform on the same stage as Elisabeth Hasselbeck.  Apparently he’s afraid he will suffer the same fate as Rosie.  I find this tactic kind of strange considering he performed before Hasselbeck twice last year.  He apparently stated something to the effect he felt Hasselbeck [...]

Here’s today’s headline: Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent And here’s a snippet of the article: LONDON Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous. The new review suggests [...]

A lot of people feel media in general is horribly biased towards Democrats and liberal politics. Other people think it’s a conspiracy theory. MSNBC kinda puts it all in perspective in a very simple way I had never even thought of doing. They looked at where journalists give their money. Now, to me, if I [...]

Trick question I know. It’s a tie. From Rasmussen: Surveys of 800 Likely Voters June 4-5, 2007 and June 6-7, 2007 This Week’s Favorability Ratings Harry Reid – 19% Scooter Libby – 19% Actually it’s a double-trick question. Scooter Libby’s not elected. And, I know a lot of people would suggest it’s a triple-trick question [...]

Without immigrants pouring into the nation’s big metro areas, places such as New York, Los Angeles and Boston would be losing population. Many smaller areas, including Battle Creek, Michigan, Ames, Iowa, and Corvallis, Oregon, would lose people as well, according to population estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau. "Immigrants are filling the void as [...]

A lot of people were very anxious to get an earmarks database.  Well, it’s finally here.  The prevailing assumption was it would be the nail in the Republicans coffin since they were in charge and Nancy Pelosi et al were screaming about the culture of corruption that most media was more than happy to go [...]

Took a look at the Class of 2007.  You know, the ones who were the recipient of the great voter uprising that said they were tired of average white Republican lawyer career politicans and voted en masse to elect, well, let’s look, shall we? This is a breakdown of what took office today in the [...]

I just love Opensecrets.org.  They get all kinds of neat stuff.  Especially for those like me who prefer numbers and facts to "what someone else said".  Today’s fun with numbers lesson involves the political stereotype that Republicans are all about big money and greed.  That’s been the main staple of Nancy Pelosi for about five [...]

The NCAA decided sixteen schools were nothing more than diploma mills and banned them from providing core curricula to NCAA schools ( in other words, their classes won’t count if one of the NCAA players’ academic scores were otherwise too low ).  Here, they are, color coded for your convenience: Access (Santa Ana, California) American [...]