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What? You think I know about campaign money raised in the second quarter? Go visit Rick Evans over at Reliable Politics and he’ll tell you some things.
Preview: McCain may not hit $10 million. Implosion imminent?

The polls keep coming and the opposition keeps growing.
Basically, America is pissed.
From CBS:
More Americans than ever before, 77 percent, say the war is going badly, up from 66 percent just two months ago. Nearly half, 47 percent, say it’s going very badly.
While the springtime surge in U.S. troops to Iraq is now complete, more [...]

Oh good lord…
“After eight years of the Bush administration, we are going to be shocked by what we find,” the New York senator and former first lady said. “Somebody said to me the other day if there was ever a time for a woman president it’s now because we’re going to have to do a [...]

“If America were a stock, it would be a “buyâ€Â?: an undervalued market leader, in need of new management. But that points to its last great strength. More than any rival, America corrects itself.”
- Economist article entitled ‘Still No.1′

Interesting news…
CHICAGO (AFP) - In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said.
The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell, according [...]

Everybody of a certain age has a bald eagle story.
I spent six of the first eight years of my life in Buffalo, N.Y. Growing up there, the bald eagle had almost mythic significance to my young mind because it was a symbol in more ways than one. Not only did it represent our country; it [...]

Don Siegelman, a Democrat who was governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003, was sentenced to seven years in prison and $230,000 in fines for taking bribes during his governorship.
If I were so inclined, I could take a cue from Republican defenders of Lewis Libby and Tom DeLay and decry the “political motivation” behind Siegelman’s [...]

8:35: Unlike cable news with long extended preview shows, the lead in of the debate tonight is the ‘International Dancesport World Championships 2006.’ The Russians just dominated the Rumba and the Samba, for what its worth.
As for the debate tonight, it’s going to supposedly focus more on domestic issues like Katrina response and health care. [...]

This sounds like an interesting new book about a family’s journey through one year of consumption free from Chinese made goods…
BATON ROUGE, LA. – Last year, two days after Christmas, we kicked China out of the house. Not the country obviously, but bits of plastic, metal, and wood stamped with the words “Made in China.” [...]

Who knows if he’ll run for President and who knows if anybody will be willing to vote for him…but he’s certainly singing a very interesting tune.
From USA Today:
Bloomberg, who left the GOP and is asked almost daily about running for president, said Wednesday that neither the Republican nor Democratic Party “stands for anything.”
“There isn’t any [...]

The Department of Homeland Security has some ’splaining to do…
From Wash Post:
The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.
Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soared by millions of [...]

He went from fifth to first, and is leading the field by a larger margin on the GOP side than Hillary is on the Dem side.
From Clickz:
In a custom report created for ClickZ News, Hitwise measured traffic market share of the candidate sites. The measurement firm found traffic to Democratic candidate sites was top heavy, [...]

No surprise here. The GOP sees an approval rating in the low 20s for Bush and is running away from any type of reform he’s proposing. And his “amnesty” slip wasn’t really a slip. This is amnesty, as well it should be. And that makes Republican lawmakers even more ill at ease.
In any event, Politico [...]

Coulter has an agenda, she writes in the service of that agenda to entertain and sway opinion to her objective. In that regard, she is one of the top tier of propagandists working in the in political cotton field, harvesting the hearts and minds of the American electorate.

The NY Times released the findings this week to an internally sponsored poll of 659 young adults, most of whom will be eligible to vote in the 2008 presidential election. The NYT/CBS News/MTV sponsored poll revealed some interesting trends, with the underlying pattern revealing an issue-by-issue favoritism towards social, economic and international Liberalism:
Forty-four percent [...]

There’s a reason a lot of Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich. Because Republicans are right, it is class warfare, but the rich are paying LESS than the middle class and even one of the richest people in the world acknowledges it.
From the Wash Post:
NEW YORK, June 26 — Warren E. Buffett was [...]

Okay, he’s nothing of the sort. In their final installment in the Cheney series, the Washington Post tackles his environmental record. It’s not pretty.
We again see the same methodology: operating in secret, reaching down to the lowest levels of the bureaucracy to effect the policies he wants.
In this case, though, it’s hard to discern a [...]

One of his aides explains.
From Wash Post:
In a letter to Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Cheney Chief of Staff David S. Addington wrote that the order treats the vice president the same as the president and distinguishes them both from “agencies” subject to the oversight provisions of the executive order.
Addington did not cite specific language [...]

I got an email from Rick over at Reliable Politics and dug through his blog. What I found was very informative, non-partisan and highly relevant to the 2008 contest. It’s kind of like Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, only not as “inside the tent.”
Here are some posts I enjoyed:
Indian-Americans Give Clinton $2 Million
Tancredo: Romney Better Suited [...]