Again – April Fool’s: The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker. Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, who helped U.S.-backed Iraqi leaders negotiate a deal with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to stop the […]
April Fool’s: Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Pennsylvania Primary is shrinking. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March and a fifteen-point […]
color and light Originally uploaded by KevinLoganPhoto Amazing image. I wish I had time to do some studio stuff like this.
Gov. Ed Rendell tells FOX news they are the most “fair and balanced”: Yeah right! The other stations never say anything bad about Obama. Rev. Who? Oh yeah – MSNBC devoted tons of time last week to the Wright controversy.
Finally there is something I can agree on with the Supreme Court. They have refused to review the Justice Department’s appeal on the raid of Rep. William Jefferson’s office. That leaves a lower court’s ruling that the raid was unconstitutional intact. Don’t get me wrong on this – I firmly believe Jefferson is corrupt and […]
Hillary can’t even pay the bills: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months – freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles. A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 […]
Time for things to heat up even more in Iraq: But a defiant al-Sadr called on his followers Saturday to ignore the order, saying that his Mahdi Army would turn in its weapons only to a government that can “get the occupier out of Iraq,” referring to the Americans. This fight is Shiite on Shiites. […]
The Politico is just now getting the story out of McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm, and his ties to the subprime mess we are in today. I reported about this on Monday. All the same, I am glad to see the story get some traction now. People need to know that the man behind McCain’s […]
Phil Gramm is McCain’s chief economic adviser and was one of the chief architects of the deregulation of the banking industry that helped get us into the mortgage crisis. Now George Bush is proposing sweeping new regulations of the banking industry to help prevent more problems. This appears to go strongly against Gramm’s beliefs, as […]