Elections:
Senator Hillary Clinton has apparently decided to join John McCain in calling for a "gas tax" holiday for the summer. Their plan would suspend the 18.4 cent per gallon tax on gas (and the 24.4 cent tax on diesel...
Posted on April 22, 2008 12:23 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By now, there's a good chance that you've read something or another about the whole "Is John McCain a "Natural Born" Citizen" thing - it's caught quite a lot of attention over the last few days. It's certainly caught mine - not because I'm concerned about the question of whether military brats born overseas can be president, but because so many people are acting like complete idiots.
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Posted on March 1, 2008 11:28 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There were three more Presidential primaries yesterday - Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. Turnout in all three of them was high yesterday, at least on the Democratic side. The numbers for all three areas are good, but I'm most...
Posted on February 13, 2008 1:52 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is the party. Again. In every single state that had a primary on Super Tuesday, Democratic turnout was up from 2004. The details are below the fold, and they're pretty cool to look at. (Update 1: I've started to...
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Posted on February 6, 2008 3:18 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It looks like there's definitely going to be a little bit of good political news for everyone tonight - a statement released by leading theocon James Dobson:...
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Posted on February 5, 2008 5:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's been a couple of days since I posted on the New Hampshire recount. At the time, I fully expected that I wouldn't do another post on the topic, but a couple of things that have happened since then...
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Posted on January 18, 2008 10:59 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the week since the New Hampshire voting, a number of people have become increasingly concerned about some of the things that they've seen in the results. Two things, in particular, have gotten a lot of attention. The first...
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Posted on January 16, 2008 1:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As the dust settles in New Hampshire, people are starting to talk about the winners and losers, and what it all means in the grand scheme of the election. Some are looking for excuses reasons why Obama didn't actually...
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Posted on January 9, 2008 11:02 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today's Wall Street Journal has a page A1 article (and accompanying blog post) about John Edward's decision to invoke the Nataline Sarkisyan case in his campaign-trail discussions of health care. Sarkisyan, you may remember, was the 17-year-old California girl...
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Posted on January 7, 2008 11:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Several days ago, Senator (and longshot Presidential candidate) Christopher Dodd (D-CT) made some news by promising to do whatever he could to block any legislation that would retroactively grant immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with President Bush's warrentless...
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Posted on October 24, 2007 2:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here are a few numbers from the latest Reuters-Zogby poll. See if you can find the one that's not like the others: Rated President Bush's performance as excellent or good: 25% Rated Congress' performance as excellent or good: 11%...
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Posted on October 22, 2007 8:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It looks like Nancy Pelosi might be getting just a wee bit frustrated with the Democratic base. It also looks like she's got a lack of understanding of the proper relationship between politicians and the people that sorely needs...
Posted on October 11, 2007 9:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Every time I read articles (like this one, this one, this one or this one) that talk about how the Democrats are having problems getting the 60 votes in the Senate that they need to move Iraq legislation forward, or how they won't be able to get the 2/3rds of both houses that they need to beat a veto, I get angrier. And not with the Republicans who are standing in the way.
Posted on September 19, 2007 11:12 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Once again, John "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" McCain went and said something stupid at a campaign stop. And, once again, he got caught on video doing it. This time, he went just slightly overboard in his criticism...
Posted on September 17, 2007 10:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In "The Republican War on Science" Chris Mooney referred to the Newt Gingrich-led Congress' decision to eliminate the Office of Technology Assessment as "a stunning act of self-lobotomy." If anything, he was lowballing the effects. For those of you...
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Posted on September 17, 2007 9:26 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with. 
