The Texas Blue: News
McCain Would Like Some Money
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 7:07pm
While everything else is going on, John McCain is trying to raise enough money to compete in the general. To put the hill he has to climb in perspective: Obama and Clinton, thus far, have raised $195 million and $173 million, respectively; McCain has managed only $55 million in total.
Grist for Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 5:08pm
The NSA is more or less collecting information on what citizens spend and buy and who they talk to. You may have thought that was going on already, but the unsettling part out today is how wide the NSA's net is.
What's in the Water?
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 3:30pm
The US drinking water supply contains trace amounts of a plethora of drugs — everything from over-the-counter pain meds to prescription antibiotics and tranquilizers — according to an AP investigation.
A Good Beat, You Can Dance To It
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 2:53pm
You're going to see many campaign ads for many state house races this cycle, but how many will you see that are musicals? A campaign ad for John McClelland puts the two together for instance #1:
NY Governor Spitzer Tied To Prostitution Ring
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 2:02pm
Fox News is reporting that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will resign this evening after a report showed ties between Spitzer and a prostitution ring. Spitzer made no mention of resigning during a statement to the press earlier today. More as it comes.
Bush and the Keys to the Veep
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 1:49pm
Not that I normally want to push the Weekly Standard on our readers or anything, but a lot of fat is going in the fire for Romney as VP, and that bears notice.
House Files Suit on Bush Administration
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 1:36pm
Plenty of information to go around on the next step in the attorney firing scandal.
Iraq Costs Escalating in 2008
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 1:04pm
The Iraq War will cost the U.S. $12 million in 2008, according to a new book. "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict," by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Blimes, challenges the more optimistic figures coming from the White House.
3 a.m. Girl Supports Obama
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 10:25am
Clinton’s "3 a.m. phone call" ad is popularly assumed to have given her an edge in last Tuesday’s primaries. Now it turns out that one of the two children sleeping under the watchful eye of future President Clinton is a seventeen-year-old Obama volunteer and precinct captain. The Clinton campaign purchased the stock footage featuring Casey Knowles from Getty Images. Knowles, who was unaware of the ad until her family caught it on a "Daily Show" parody, joked that she should do a counter-ad with Barack Obama. According to this AP story, the Obama campaign has already contacted her.
Tucker Gets the Boot
Mon, 03/10/2008 - 9:30am
Bwahaha. Via Crooks and Liars:
Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson’s 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election.