Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
PALO ALTO--Two years ago, former Virgina Sen. George Allen lost his bid for reelection after a YouTube video of him calling a Democratic volunteer "macaca" became an instant hit. Today, political "gotchya videos" are surfacing on YouTube every few days,...
The Shad Plank (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Public Policy Polling has released its latest survey, which found Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leading Republican candidate John McCain by two percentage points in Virginia -- the same slim margin he held last month. In other words, it remains a tossup, except for one thing: Obama leads among independents by six percentage points -- 42-38. Within their parties, Obama leads 83-10 among...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
President George W. Bush said Wall Street had "got drunk" and was experiencing a hangover at a recent closed-door fundraiser in Houston in which he also made light of the US housing crisis
Vivian J. Paige (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A year ago, I asked for opinions on which you would prefer, a Democratic president followed by a Republican governor or a Repubican president followed by a Democratic governor. 1976 - Jimmy Carter (D) 1977 - John Dalton (R) 1980 - Ronald Reagan (R) 1981 - Chuck Robb (D) 1984 - Ronald Reagan (R) 1985 - Gerry Baliles (D) 1988 - George [...]
Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Public figures who engage in politically incorrect speech involving race are usually condemned......
PoliPundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
With George Allen's former US Senate seat safely tucked in the Democrats corner until at least 2012, the 2nd VA US Senate seat, currently in the hands of the retiring GOP Senator John Warner, is looking to be a Democrat takeaway as well: Trailing by double digits in tracking polls and ...
The Conservative Voice Columns (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Audacity of the "N" Word
News World Today (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
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Top Stories (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
In an Ideas piece, authors say McCain has failed to follow the trajectory of his role model, Teddy Roosevelt.
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Gen. James Jones, president of the Institute for 21st century Energy: “There’s an energy tsunami coming, and when you see it coming you better get on top of the wave, or you’re going to get crushed by it,” Jones initiated an open letter which made 13 recommendations in energy efficiency, new domestic production and investment in [...]
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
But is there a race that the interTubes ever helped win? I know there are ones it helped lose certainly (see George Allen, 2006 defeat). Don't get me wrong, the blogosphere and The YouTube is great, but I'm very skeptical about its ability to actually win races, rather than just serve as a organizing tool. Maybe if someone showed me a race that helped put it over the top... I mean, honestly, how does...
Leaning Towards the Dark Side (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
A Country Such as This, by James Webb During their Senate race, George Allen apparently referred to Webb as “”the fiction writer candidate”, to which Webb once replied “Yes, George, I write fiction,” Webb said, “and take a look here and you will see how people who do this understand the human experience in a very [...]
Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) is a stupid as a post and was elected because of a tragic mistake: George Allen’s campaign collapsed in a year which was trending Dem anyway. Now, Webb says: “Gol, hic. I won’t be Obama’s veep.” Jim Webb is an unpredictable sort with very low brain wattage. He wishes that [...]
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
UVA 3L Mike Stark has not graced our pages since 2006, when he was violently ejected from a George Allen campaign event (see The Misadventures of a UVA Gunner ). Stark is a staunch Democrat. When he's not busy studyin' the law, he runs the blog Calling All Wingnuts , whose tagline is "A never-ending battle against stupid, ugly, deceitful and corrupt right-wing water carriers..." Those on the right...
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Hobbit is very much in the news at the moment with the planned two film adaptation by director Guillermo del Toro. The book by JRR Tolkien was first published in 1937 and an estimated 100million copies have now been sold worldwide. George Allen & Unwin were the publishers that agreed to get Tolkien’s work out [...]
