Month: August 2006

Jean Hay Bright is Maine’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, challenging incumbent Republican Olympia Snowe this fall. www.jeanhaybright.us    Juxtaposition this: I spent most of Saturday, Aug. 26, in...

The local Santa Cruz Metro weekly newspaper recently contained a Peter Byrne feature titled “Your Tax Dollars Not Working,” in which he describes (in part) a meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee he...

Our esteemed Vice President (and draft dodger extraordinaire) gave a speech yesterday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno. I’d like to take a look at what total bs silver pearls of wisdom issued forth from...

Greg Palast has a good piece up about Dr. Ivor van Heerden, the Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, and his experiences with Hurricane Katrina. Dr. van Heerden’s computers predicted that the...

The August Wall Street Journal/Zogby tracking poll came out yesterday with more good news for the vast majority of Texans who want a new Governor. Dem nominee Chris Bell has closed the gap with Rick Perry by 5.8% in one month,...