McCain and Giuliani beat Hillary and Obama.
Time has the numbers…
Republicans are so morose in general, and conservatives so unhappy with their current field of candidates, that the assumption of a Democratic advantage has become bi-partisan. And with the public so soured on the Republican in the White House, and so many other trends working against [...]

I’m just speculating here, but I believe we’re witnessing more money being raised earlier than at any other time in history. And hey, thank god for that, right?
No, but seriously…just read this and tell me if it doesn’t make you queasy…
“Clintonites tamp down expectations for first-quarter fund raising, sticking with estimates of up to $25 [...]

Pretty funny…
A Baptist minister, Mr. Huckabee expressed impatience with the political choices so far of some religious conservatives. In the March Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, Mr. Giuliani led among Republicans with 38%; even among evangelical voters, the twice-divorced former New York City mayor, a supporter of abortion rights, received 37% to 2% for Mr. [...]

A majority of the American public has, but it’s not often that former high-level aides speak so candidly about their boss and his failings. David Kuo was one. Matthew Dowd is now another.
From NY Times:
A top strategist for the Texas Democrats who was disappointed by the Bill Clinton years, [Matthew] Dowd was impressed by the [...]

Even if you loathe electronic music, you may find this interesting…
The reactable is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular [...]

There’s always been stray electricity bouncing invisibly and silently here and there all around us. But until now, we’ve never been able to capture it and power devices.
One company has cracked the code…
Picture your cell phone charging up the second you sit down at your desk, and you start to get a sense of [...]

Well, there you have it. Shine a little sunlight onto the Shaquanda Cotton case and we can collectively turn things around.
From the Chicago Tribune:
HOUSTON — Shaquanda Cotton, the teenage black girl in the small east Texas town of Paris who was sent to prison for up to seven years for shoving a teacher’s aide, will [...]

It’s not as simple as that, but the math is pretty stark. GlaxoSmithKline, which spent decades and more than $400 million developing a meningitis vaccine, expects to sell it only in Africa, and at a price that will never cover the cost of development.
As the story notes, this is not an entirely selfless act. Some [...]

Coming on the heels of the Democrats using $20 billion in pork to buy votes for their war-funding bill, this has me a little bit wary:
federal agency that tracked pork-barrel spending during the 12 years of the Republican congressional majority has discontinued the practice….
The Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan agency of the Library of Congress [...]

This morning I got to watch a portion of the Congressional testimony of Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Alberto Gonzales. I recommend finding the time to view parts of it yourself, because you get a sense of the actors far better than anything you’ll get from a news summary or even a [...]

Steve Forbes gives Rudy his backing…which doesn’t mean all that much. What’s interesting is that Rudy seems to be flirting with Forbes’ flat tax idea when he had previously condemned it.
From NY Times:
Rudolph W. Giuliani accepted the endorsement of Steve Forbes yesterday and embraced Mr. Forbes’s signature issue, saying he liked the idea of a [...]

I’m in virtual heaven.
Well, more like I’m in NYC for the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference. And by the way, if you want to know where the next big technology/social networking trend is going to go…check out that link and technologies like Second Life and There. Seriously.
In fact, I was sitting next to some guy who’s [...]

This feels a bit time-warpish, but Congress may try to re-pass (and then urge the states to ratify) the Equal Rights Amendment.
Oh, joy. I always get excited at the prospect of more Phyllis Schlafly (pictured) on my television.
On the one hand, why not? On the other hand, it’s arguable whether such an amendment is even [...]

Just to put a cherry on the top of the military healthcare sundae, I find this article from The Nation.
In the Army’s separations manual it’s called Regulation 635-200, Chapter 5-13: “Separation Because of Personality Disorder.” It’s an alluring choice for a cash-strapped military because enacting it is quick and cheap. The Department of Veterans Affairs [...]

Southwest Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune, Howard Witt, just contacted me with an important update about the remarkably unjust, race-motivated sentencing of Shaquanda Cotton in Paris, TX.
Just in case you haven’t heard the backstory, I’ll let Shaquanda tell you herself from the “About Me” section on her blog Free Shaquanda Cotton:
I am a 14-year-old [...]

sleipner, one of our more frequent commenters on Donklephant had this to say on my recent post about drug toxicity…
Obviously, direct toxicity is obviously not the only measure of danger for a drug. In addition to that, some drugs have an additional psychological or environmental risk of death or injury, either to the user or [...]

From Pew Research:
A solid majority of Americans say they want their congressional representative to support a bill calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by August 2008. Nearly six-in-ten (59%) say they would like to see their representative vote for such legislation, compared with just 33% who want their representative to oppose it.
But [...]

Bloomberg is an interesting guy. Democrat turned Republican out of convenience, seemingly beholden to no “party line.” Arguably the most popular and effective mayors NYC has seen in decades. One of the most successful financial news entrepreneurs in modern times
Now more chatter among the politerati about an independent 2008 presidential run. “Ross Perot with a [...]

I didn’t know N.Y.P.D could not only go across the country doing intelligence gathering, but into different countries too.
For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to [...]

(h/t: Sully)