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Mike Dunford was a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied evolution. Life as an army spouse has since moved him on to Pensacola, where he's currently trying to figure out what to do next. While he's doing that, he writes stuff here, although not usually in the third person. 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.
Category: Elections
In today's Atlanta Journal Constitution, Army spouse Elisabeth Kadlec writes: When we married our spouses, I am sure that none of us were signing up to be single parents. But in essence that is what we become. Many people...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 8:54 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Presidential
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...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 10:59 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Presidential
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...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: 2008
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...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:02 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
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...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: 2008
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...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 2:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bipartisan
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%...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 8:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Democratic
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 by Mike Dunford at 9:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Iraq and US Politics
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 by Mike Dunford at 11:12 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: From the Right
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 by Mike Dunford at 10:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
