Even as the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates prepared to debate Tuesday night, Ralph Nader, a controversial figure from the last two presidential campaigns, sued the Democratic Party, the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign and affiliated groups for allegedly sabotaging his 2004 campaign.
“The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly […]

Rudy Jiuliani, Former Mayor of New York and Current Republican Candidate for President of the United States. This is not a doctored photograph. It is Rudy Giuliani at a party in 2000.
As PZ Myers points out in his comment on this news story, “Yeah, I know, it’s getting so predictable it’s not […]

Apparently, Barack Obama is calling for the firing of a John Tanner Justice Department official for making certain remarks in a recent speech. Tanner was speaking about drivers licenses as voter ID’s and the possibility that this would limit the franchise for selected groups such as the elderly, who may often not posses such […]

Even as two out of five Americans think several racists thoughts a day, and commit up to four racist acts per week (unattributed statistics but you know its true) we find evidence every day of the true unity of humankind. This evidence comes from inter-cultural global encounters of a personal kind, like when an American […]

Academics tend to be liberal, this we all know. But it is interesting to contemplate the finer details of this association. When we do so, we discover some interesting differences among different kinds of academics, and one group in particular — “Health Scientists” — can be singled out as bucking the trend. […]

Chris Matthews
From a report in Examiner.com, regarding comments made by Chris Matthews at the tenth anniversary party for Hardball, last night:
In front of an audience that included such notables as Alan Greenspan, Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, Matthews began his remarks by declaring that he wanted to “make some news” […]

Candidates for president.
Some time later today, in a few minutes, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski is going to introduce Barack Obama to an audience in Iowa, where he (Obama) will deliver a speech calling for the immediate withdraw of troops from Iraq.
Sort of. Actually, the immediate beginning of a withdraw. […]

.,.. unfortunately, it was just a prank.
This was reported on SlashDot as well as newsvine.
For several hours earlier this week, the following announcement was being made on John McCain’s web site:
“Dear Supporters,
Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage … particularly between passionate females. […]

In the 1928 Presidential Election, Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith. Smith lost partly because he was a Roman Catholic and from New York (still under the cloud of Tammany Hall) as well as his anti-prohibition stand. Hoover won because the Republicans were linked to the booming (but soon to collapse) economy.
It […]