From Mashable: As the snow piled up on New Year’s Eve, Jersey resident Ravie Rave didn’t call a snow plow service to take care of her 65-year-old father’s walk — she tweeted at Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who showed up shortly with shovels and salt. Booker, who has more than a million Twitter followers, is […]
Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL-5) is expected to announce today that he is switching from Democrat to Republican: According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama. Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care […]
The health clinic held in Arkansans Saturday saw 1,500 uninsured Arkansans come through to receive care on the very same day Blanche Lincoln was toying with the idea of killing healthcare reform. Here is a video from the event: But somehow Bill Clinton has totally lost the message on this great endeavor, lead by Keith […]
Obama had a celebration yesterday with Mexico’s ambassador and had a little gaff: President Barack Obama is celebrating Cinco de Mayo a little early. On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico’s Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN’). Obama joked that it […]
FOX let people text in messages to appear on their ticker New Year’s Eve. If the message was approved by their “moderators”, then it would appear on live, national teevee. WooHoo. So what kind of messages did they approve? This kind: A new year and a new low for Rupert and his merry pact of […]
Well more so on her campaign – and they deserve it. There has been some serious problems, and I am not talking about Bill. Having said that, I need to point out that this really makes me happy to hear: On the eve of Wisconsin’s Democratic primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to call a White […]
This is becoming more of a mess by the day: It never did made sense to write off the Democratic primary votes in Florida and Michigan – and it makes even less sense now that Super Tuesday has brought forth a muddle in the delegate race. Even the party official who stripped Florida and Michigan […]
Interesting argument and mostly true, but wasn’t it McCain’s party that was responsible for most of that spending? John McCain blamed overspending by the federal government in part for the nation’s economic troubles as South Carolina voters Friday received the sobering news that the state unemployment rate had hit 6.6 percent, the largest one-month increase […]
Oh joy: President George W. Bush will address a war-weary American public next week to “lay out a vision” for the U.S. role in Iraq as he tries to sell his strategy in the wake of a crucial report to Congress. Heading home from an overseas trip on the eve of a political showdown over […]
Wow this is getting heated: On the eve of a potentially contentious Senate hearing about the Iraq war, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify before Congress, saying it’s been too long without such an appearance. Clinton, D-N.Y., is a member of the Armed Services Committee, and while she has criticized […]