Why?
Well, first off, you have to read this post where she mocks people who were trying to have one hour of no energy consumption around the world.
In response, she proposed the following…

Cranking up your thermostats.
Returning your CFLs.
Protesting PETA’s animal cruelty and animal rights/environmental terrorism.
Purchasing a carbon debit package.
Informing your local public school teacher of Al [...]

Jill Miller Zimon writes over at The Moderate Voice on a regular basis and now she’s up for Best Female Blogger for her blog Writes Like She Talks. Only issue? She’s going against some heavy-hitters like Digby, Taylor Marsh and Jessica Valenti of Feministing.
So help a fellow moderate/centrist/independent blogger out and vote here. It’ll take [...]

In an effort to make the conversations around here more interesting, easier to follow, etc., we’ll be testing Intense Debate commenting this coming Tuesday.
We chose them instead of Disqus because, well, I don’t think Disqus is very good. At least not in my experiences with it. And If you’ve ever tried to follow a Disqus [...]

…it’s probably because we’re on the front page of Reddit.com in the #1 position. Good news for the traffic, but bad news for site performance.
In fact, I just got off the phone with our hosting service and we’re literally getting about 40 hits a second. Crazy.
In any event, I had to upgrade my database container [...]

Want to know why I made such a big deal when a blogger said that Obama “finally admitted that he was in Church when Wright said some of the things we saw him say on video.” ?
Here’s a comment that was posted from a random visitor to the site…
Neither myself,my family nor my friends care [...]

Just a general FYI regarding campaign conference calls, especially since the Politico’s recent story on them…
You can find audio for these campaign conference calls here.

Social media giveth and social media taketh away…
Looks like the former blogger and current McCain aide made a pretty dumb gaffee today by sharing a YouTube video on Twitter, which is basically stream-of-consciousness blogging platform that allows people to share their thoughts, but nothing longer than 155 characters. I’m actually on Twitter as well, and [...]

Just to give you an idea of how significant those numbers are, Donklephant has only had two other months where the numbers were bigger. Last September we had 88,000 uniques and 125,000 views, and this January we had 85,000 uniques and 114,000 views.
This month we’re on track for over 137,000 uniques and 170,000 views.
Thanks again [...]

He’s at it again.
First, here’s his interpretation of what Obama said about black Americans…
I think it’s a good speech because I know how some people react to it; the target audience will be ‘inspired’ by his speech. So, it’s a good speech. But for me: it’s mostly empty rhetoric disguised as deep thoughts and he’s, [...]

[Republished from 2008Central.net]
Joe Klein writes today:
So we now have a pattern. Obama’s chief economic advisor (Austan Goolsbee) and a prominent foreign policy advisor (Power) have now told the truth on two important issues, trade and Iraq respectively. Their truth contradicted some of the overheated rhetoric their boss was using on the campaign trail. Hillary Clinton–whose [...]

From The Caucus:
On Friday, it got to be too much for Alegre, a diarist on the flagship liberal blog DailyKos, who frequently writes in support of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“I’ve put up with the abuse and anger because I’ve always believed in what our online community has tried to accomplish in this world,” Alegre wrote [...]

I missed a bit of a milestone recently. My 3000th post. But I’d rather call attention to myself and ask that you lavish praise for my 3012th post anyway. It’s more my style. ;-)
Hit the donation button in the top right hand corner if you’re feeling generous.
And, as always, thanks for visiting daily and [...]

Michael van der Galien wrote a post yesterday entitled, It’s All About Race. Needless to say it’s about Obama’s overwhelming support among black voters in Tuesday’s contest in Mississippi and why that’s happening.
Let’s take a look at Michael’s argument (note: Mississippi and Louisiana are mixed up here, so read everything in the following as commentary [...]

I wrote about this report yesterday and it inspired a good debate on if we should leave Iraq or not. Alan brought up some good points about maintaining stability in the region, but I remained unconvinced that our continued presence there has demonstrated increased safety for our country. In fact, I think the facts prove [...]

While that headline may be true, I’ll get into why it’s an unfair spin soon enough.
First, Reuters has their dreary spin on a Harris Interactive poll:
Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive. [...]
Despite [...]

I thought I’d point out that the enormously talented Jason will now be posting at Donklephant from time to time.
He’s the founder of Militant Moderates, an assistant editor at PoliGazette and one of the best debaters I’ve ever heard on a podcast.
So this is a challenge for you commenters…try backing this guy into a [...]

Our hosting service had problems for about an hour. My apologies, but we’re back up and hopefully this won’t happen again any time soon.
Oh yeah, and Hillary won the Texas popular vote, but may not end up netting any delegates at all tonight if Obama does as well as advertised in the Texas caucuses.
More [...]

The benefits of running a blog? I can post stuff like this…

Okay, who wants to make a predator made out of popsicle sticks?
UPDATE:
I can’t believe I didn’t think of the obvious Balloon Juice jokes.
John Cole will not be pleased.

We had another great month in February, and now with the addition of Alan Stewart Carl as a full time blogger, I think Donklephant is on a great path heading into one of most exciting elections we’ve seen in years.
Thank you again for reading, commenting and keeping the site an exciting place to visit everyday. [...]

By now, most of you are familiar with me and my writings. Hopefully you enjoy reading what I have to say because you’ll be seeing a lot more of my words at Donklephant. Justin has kindly asked me to be a more permanent part of this website and provide my daily opinions on the most [...]