Too Conservative (Free subscription) | yesterday
First, a 2008 update: The Georgia Senate run-off is tonight between Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin. A Chambliss victory will kill the Democrat’s chances of getting 60 votes in the Senate. In 2010 news, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) has long announced he wasn’t running for another term, choosing instead to run for Governor, making Kansas the [...]
New Appeal to Reason (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hotline reports that Third District Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore won't be running for re-election. Sources close to Rep. Dennis Moore (KS-03) say he will not run for re-election in '10. It's unclear if he will launch a SEN bid instead; Sen. Sam Brownback (R) is stepping down and is expected to run for GOV. Via a spokeswoman, Moore said today: "I am honored to be serving the people of the Third...
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Sources close to Rep. Dennis Moore (KS-03) say that the congressman will not run for re-election in 2010. It's unclear if he will launch a Senate bid instead; Sen. Sam Brownback is stepping down that year and is expected to run for governor. Via a spokeswoman, Moore said today: "I am honored to be serving the people of the Third District and have every intention of continuing my work in Congress on...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Blogging the Right Thing: Elections by Ebay David v. Goliath: The Inside Story Chapter 6 of Do the Right Thing is called “Elections by Ebay” and it’s kind of reversal of Chapters 2-5 which focused on policy with a little bit of campaign story sprinkled in. This tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Huckabee campaign. Some of the interesting factoids in [...]
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
The Korea Times reports that a joint committee of the U.S. Congress has recommended that the government establish a special task force aimed at persuading the Chinese to stop repatriating North Korean refugees. On the less hopeful side, we still don’t have a clear idea of how much priority the executive branch is going [...]
Raise Hope for Congo - (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The Senate on Thursday passed an important resolutioncalling for an immediate ceasefire among warring parties in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.Introduced by senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Russ Feingold (D-WI), the bipartisanmeasure condemns the recent escalation of violence inflicted on civilians, andencourages the international community to help develop a lasting solution tothe conflict....
Global Health Policy (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The global health community likes to throw around buzz phrases (the 10/90 gap) that point to one reality: inadequate R&D dollars for neglected diseases. While this situation has undoubtedly improved in the last decade, it is still undeniably the case,...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
GOP Sen. Sam Brownback is retiring from the Senate in 2010, and Dems have one big name on the bench who could actually make a race of his open seat -- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who will be conveniently term-limited out of office that same year. However, Sebelius is also being rumored as a possible Secretary of Labor choice in Obama's cabinet, and if he makes that move, that would likely take her out...
Krusty Konservative (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
We all know Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback, Fred Thompson, and Tom Tancredo are conservatives. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain also called themselves conservatives. Sometime in this past year I wrote about how the word conservative doesn’t mean anything anymore. I was frustrated then, and remain so still today. I get a little peeved when I read articles like Mike Glover’s AP piece that wonders...
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Number of comments: 4 We all know Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback, Fred Thompson, and Tom Tancredo are conservatives. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain also called themselves conservatives. Sometime in this past year I wrote about how the word conservative doesn’t mean anything anymore. I was frustrated then, and remain so still today. [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Today U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following escalating violence in the country.
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In the past 15 years starting with the rise of HIllary Clinton to power, radical feminist organizations have proliferated in the USA with the help of unconstitutional federal funding and an American media controlled by only 5 politically correct corporations. There are no seriously funded men’s rights organizations (MRO’s) as of late 2008. Why the discrepancy? Here are [...]
Pensito Review (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Hillary Clinton should have just held on until the write-in votes were cast. At least that’s what the results in Jacksonville show. Write-in votes were released by the Duval County Supervisor of Elections office today, and there were some surprising results. First, the tally reached 736. Second, George W. Bush got two votes in favor of [...]
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Election-law expert Rick Hasen picks out an interesting passage from the minority section of the Senate Judiciary Committee's just-released report into the US Attorneys firings. Some members of the committee's Republican minority -- including senior senators like McCain pal Lindsey...
