Stolen in full from Hotline On Call…with a few modifications (in bold)…
‘Twas the week before ‘07, and all through DC, Democrats were stirring. How could they not be?
Top staffers announced by ‘08ers with care, in hopes that the benjamins soon would be there.
Rahm and Schumer were nestled all snug in new power, while Reid and [...]

Before today, I’d never heard much about Republican Congressman Jerry Moran, but his methods are impressive and speak to the way a politician should be conducting himself.
From Hotline On Call:
Every year since his election to Congress in 1996, Moran has made it his mission to schedule events in each of the 69 counties in his [...]

I found this insider’s perspective on the “accidental President” over at Hotline On Call. It’s honest, poignant and revealing….
John Deardourff and I prepared the general election advertising for President Ford in 1976. It was the easiest job we ever had.
Imagine the luxury of a political consultant whose client (1) is President of the United States [...]

Yeah, they’re just polls…and they’ll change…but it’s fun to think about nonetheless.
From Political Wire, first the Dems:
Iowa: Clinton 31%, Edwards 20%, Vilsack 17%, Obama 10%
Nevada: Clinton 37%, Obama 12%
South Carolina: Clinton 34%, Edwards 31%, Obama 10%
New Hampshire: Clinton 27%, Obama 21%, Edwards 18%
Then Repubs:
Iowa: Giuliani 28%, McCain 26%, Gingrich 18%
Nevada: Giuliani 31%, McCain 25%, Gingrich [...]

I’m a Missourian, so any news about a Missouri senator has some amount of special signifiance. Apparently, Bond wants to be the President of the University of Missouri school system, a very cush job with a fat salary.
From Wonkette:
According to a Wonkette operative who heard this from two different sources, Republican Senator Kit Bond is [...]

That and other tall tales are being sold at our national parks with approval by Bush Administration appointees.
No, seriously. This is actually happening. And not only that, park employees are being told to not talk about the scientific explanations for these formations because it may offend people.
My head is about to explode…
According to Public Employees [...]

The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted by subsection 1010(e) of the Act, which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances, such as to [...]

Is Iraq’s national continuity impossible without the bindings of a brutal autocrat?

MSNBC talks about a restaurant where you pay what you feel is right.
An idea whose time has come or a naive notion?
Take a look here.

The Cali governor is trying to make the 7th largest economy in the world a better place to live…
Much of the proposal — $40 million — would be spent only if California universities win a $500 million grant for research from oil giant BP to develop alternatives to fossil fuels.
Lease revenue bonds would be used [...]

Our education system works, but for a lot of kids it simply offers a way to pass the time and little else. I look back on my education and wonder why I didn’t have more options to follow the interests I felt were more in line with what I wanted to pursue.
The NY Sun has [...]

They do not have one; but need it; so I gave it a go.

No surprise, but has he figured out something he couldn’t in 2004? After all, he lost the nomination to John Kerry…of all people. And he’s been out of the public debate for some time now. Personally, I think Bill Richardson has more chance of becoming a compelling choice.
More here.

Things are looking promising, however this is a cautionary tale for the Ethopian forces. More after the story…
From NY Times:
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec. 27 � The Islamist forces who have controlled much of Somalia in recent months suddenly vanished from the streets of the capital, Mogadishu, residents said Wednesday night, just as thousands of rival troops [...]

He may be one of the more forgotten Presidents in recent memory, but Ford was an incredibly important thread in our nation’s fabric. See, his tenure showed us just how strong our Constitution is and why our democracy works. That fact alone should solidify his place in our history books not as an accidental presidency, [...]

He was 93.
More from the AP:
LOS ANGELES - Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s history, has died, former first lady Betty Ford said Tuesday. [...]
Ford had battled pneumonia in January 2006 and underwent two heart treatments � including [...]

That’s the claim for this pretty cool looking “Sport Utility Truck.” And you can go 130 miles on that single charge. Not too shabby.
From TechEBlog:
Powered by the revolutionary Altairnano NanoSafe™ battery pack, Phoenix Motorcars’ zero-emission, all-electric Sport Utility Truck (SUT) can cruise on the freeway at up to 95 m.p.h. while carrying five passengers and [...]

That could be the next big Dem meme coming down the pike…so says Dan Conley of Political Insider…
Democrats will use the Iraq War as a two-fer, an opportunity to fund an extremely popular domestic program and to do it without the complicated cost-control efforts that sunk Hillary Clinton’s plan 12 years ago. And they will [...]

A little holiday science…
Snowflakes are symmetrical because they reflect the internal order of the water molecules as they arrange themselves in the solid state (the process of crystallization). Water molecules in the solid state, such as in ice and snow, form weak bonds (called hydrogen bonds) to one another. These ordered arrangements result in the [...]

Coming to a gas pump near you?
It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field. The peak output of the Burgan oil field will now be around 1.7 [...]