Mark Sanford is back in the news: Gov. Mark Sanford said Wednesday he spent last weekend in Florida with his Argentine lover, seeing if their relationship could be “restarted.” Sanford discussed the trip – first reported Sunday by an anonymous e-mailer to the Gawker Web site – because he said he thought the public should […]
The big news today is President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan. I’ll be the first to admin that I don’t really know that much about Kagan. Eliot Spitzer, a long time friend of Kagan’s, was out today giving her big praises. To me, that endorsement is enough to say she […]
This is an interesting development in the browser wars: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft’s search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Dotzler points out that Bing’s […]
Looks like ole’ Max Baucus might be in a little trouble: Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana. According to a source familiar with their relationship, […]
There is still a lot of speculating going on, but the most reasonable sounding thing I have heard so far is this: His cousin said Maj Hasan had been resisting such a deployment. “He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. […]
Not that this is really shocking news, but it does deserve repeating: U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests. The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the […]
Just ask old Confederate Yankee, who informs us of the following from the ‘thinkin’ room’: Dear 52, It seems the man you entrusted with your vote lied about his relationship with domestic terrorist and attempted mass murderer Bill Ayers. Many of you either didn’t hear about Ayers, or accepted Obama’s evolving explanations that Ayers was […]
This poll from Rasmussen shows how bad of an issue Ayers has been for McCain: Just 28% of voters believe that John McCain’s campaign has been helped by talking about the relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 50% believe talk of that issue has hurt McCain’s […]
So you thought John McCain was done with Phil Gramm? Well you were wrong: After Sen. John McCain publicly repudiated his close friend and adviser Phil Gramm’s comments about a “nation of whiners” and a “mental recession,” the two old political comrades patched up their relationship. Gramm apologized to McCain for his remarks that gave […]
I like Jim Cramer a lot, and I can’t help but feel sorry for him as he tells Meredith Vieira about his relationship with Spitzer and his family.