NY Times has an interesting story about how the Dem, Repub and Indy brain respond to different candidates and their message. The biggest news surrounds Hillary… Voters who rated Mrs. Clinton unfavorably on their questionnaire appeared not entirely comfortable with their assessment. When viewing images of her, these voters exhibited significant activity in the anterior [...]

More news that makes Hillary look like a faker. From Fox News: SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy. Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted [...]

Shaun Mullen points to a growing trend among Republicans, brought about by the spectre of permanent minority status. From TMV: A politician knows he has a problem when his own children warn him that they might vote against him. That is what happened to Representative Bob Inglis of South Carolina, who like President Bush and [...]

Money talks people. Just remember that. Without his November 5th money nuke, he wouldn’t be getting this type of traction in the media. Now reporters are focusing on his supporters’ dissatisfaction with not being involved in debates or polls, etc. For example, take the GOP’s new rule that debate candidates must have 5% or above [...]

“My understanding is President Clinton’s not on the ballot.” -Obama on Bill’s increasingly visible role in Hill’s campaign (h/t: Sully)

But 40 Dem Senators voted against him. That’s a damn shame. This guy should have been passed through with flying colors, but because he wouldn’t explicitly say that a certain method of interrogation was torture, he passed by the lowest count of any AG since the 50s. Jeez… The Dems who broke from the ranks [...]

Rudy recommended “America’s Cop” for the top job when the Department of Homeland Security first opened shop. Bush nominated him, but Bernie’s past soon caught up with him and he withdrew. Now we know why. He was just indicted. From NY Times: The grand jury voted to indict Mr. Kerik on conspiracy to commit wire [...]

This is just one poll, but if the findings are correct it’s a significant reason why Dems should think twice about making Hill the heir apparent. From USA Today: WASHINGTON — More than eight in 10 Republicans and more than half the married men in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they definitely wouldn’t vote [...]

That’s what we’re saying, but are we sure? See, we’ve heard similar claims before, but they ultimately just move back in. And since we’re going to draw down the troops who helped get the terrorists out, this feels like another case of temporary good news that could very well give way to chaos yet again. [...]

That’s the latest from a poll conducted by USA Today and Gallup. Here’s more… While 46% of those surveyed say military action should be taken either now or if diplomacy fails, 45% rule it out in any case. Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to endorse taking military steps. “If you had more follow-on [...]

Hillary had a really bad debate performance. That was pretty evident. Now she’s having an even worse week because her husband is talking nonsense about the completely fair attacks launched by Obama and Edwards. From NY Times: Bill Clinton’s suggestion that his wife faced a Republican-style “Swift boat” attack during and after the last Democratic [...]

For years, publishing houses that put out “conservative non-fiction” have used a very tried and true method for pumping up the popularity of their authors’ screeds. They sell a bunch of their books in bulk at cut rate prices to book clubs so titles will show up on The New York Times best seller list. [...]

Boom. Andrew Sullivan exalts “Ron Paul’s Triumph.” Ross Douthat talks about the

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Wow. That’s extremely impressive. I think the money bomb exceeded pretty much all expectations. From Wired: Supporters of Republican presidential contender Ron Paul rallied Monday and injected almost $4 million into his campaign in just 24 hours, according to campaign fundraising director Jonathan Bydlak. The campaign reported late Monday that it had received 35,000 donations. [...]

Yep, the donkeys are getting beat up in public opinion polls, but personally I give the Dems a bit of a pass on a lot of the things since they have razor thin majority, and Republicans aren’t interested in passing hardly anything they want to put on the agenda. That puts them in an impossible [...]

The Van Der Galiën Gazette and The Moderate Voice are both nominated for awards this year, and the voting has started. TVDGG is up for Best European Blog (non-UK) and TMV is vying for Best Top 251-500 Blog. Both of those category links will take you to the page where you can vote, and both [...]

Those are the initial numbers, and if they hold up, Paul is looking at a $2+ million day. But it looks like RP supporters were looking for more… It has begun. In the first 20 minutes after midnight, Ron Paul raised his daily haul of $65000. It’s 2:07 now, and it doesn’t seem to be [...]

My article is up at Guardian.

Norman Podhoretz or Fareed Zakaria? Note what Podhoretz is saying. Radical Islamic religion makes it impossible for us to deter Iran from trying to destroy the entire world because they don’t believe in self preservation. Now, let’s not forget that Iran doesn’t actually HAVE a nuclear weapon or the means by which to make them. [...]