Quick hits
By Libby
There's a lot of interesting brief items this morning that speak for themselves and don't really need a lot of commentary.
Steve Benen has a fascinating post on the phenomenon of the Friday news dump. He has a less than exhaustive but nevertheless impressive list of just the high points from last year where the Bush administration has used the ploy to hide bad news.
Bush is no Churchill but he does a pretty good impression of Chamberlain.
Spain recruits waiters and bartenders as undercover agents with a mandate to rat out their patrons on suspicion of cocaine use for excessive bathroom breaks. I don't know about you but I take quite a few bathroom breaks when I'm quaffing beers at the bar yet I haven't done a line on a toilet tank since 1978. I'm predicting a lot of false positives in this hare-brained scheme.
Apparently taking a cue from Elizabeth Edwards, Ann Romney leaps to Mitt's defense and says he does too love his dogs.
I love a good conspiracy theory in the morning and this was always one of my favorites. It dropped off the Memeorandum quickly, but the deathbed confession of a witness at Roswell adds fuel to those who suspect the government covered up an alien visit to Earth. I never did buy the weather balloon excuse and you have to wonder why the guy would have done this, if it wasn't true.
I hate that our candidates' credibility is based on fundraising figures, but in case you're interested, it appears Obama won the second quarter money race with $30 million in the campaign coffer.
And Human Events has some interesting briefs this morning. Newt hasn't ruled out a run if Fred Thompson falls on his face which seems likely as he's now being forced to actually campaign instead of just riding the wave of worshipping speculation on his candidacy. It appears Fred was caught flat-footed at a fundraiser in South Carolina where "more people were wearing "Fair Tax" stickers than "Thompson for President" badges." Fred was reportedly unprepared to address tax policy issues.
More here on Hillary's potential sellout to insurance corporations on national health care and the obligatory focus on wealthy attendees to Democratic fundraisers. Am I the only one that notices that darn liberal press never makes a big deal out of the moneybags who support GOP candidates?
There's a lot of interesting brief items this morning that speak for themselves and don't really need a lot of commentary.
Steve Benen has a fascinating post on the phenomenon of the Friday news dump. He has a less than exhaustive but nevertheless impressive list of just the high points from last year where the Bush administration has used the ploy to hide bad news.
Bush is no Churchill but he does a pretty good impression of Chamberlain.
Spain recruits waiters and bartenders as undercover agents with a mandate to rat out their patrons on suspicion of cocaine use for excessive bathroom breaks. I don't know about you but I take quite a few bathroom breaks when I'm quaffing beers at the bar yet I haven't done a line on a toilet tank since 1978. I'm predicting a lot of false positives in this hare-brained scheme.
Apparently taking a cue from Elizabeth Edwards, Ann Romney leaps to Mitt's defense and says he does too love his dogs.
I love a good conspiracy theory in the morning and this was always one of my favorites. It dropped off the Memeorandum quickly, but the deathbed confession of a witness at Roswell adds fuel to those who suspect the government covered up an alien visit to Earth. I never did buy the weather balloon excuse and you have to wonder why the guy would have done this, if it wasn't true.
I hate that our candidates' credibility is based on fundraising figures, but in case you're interested, it appears Obama won the second quarter money race with $30 million in the campaign coffer.
And Human Events has some interesting briefs this morning. Newt hasn't ruled out a run if Fred Thompson falls on his face which seems likely as he's now being forced to actually campaign instead of just riding the wave of worshipping speculation on his candidacy. It appears Fred was caught flat-footed at a fundraiser in South Carolina where "more people were wearing "Fair Tax" stickers than "Thompson for President" badges." Fred was reportedly unprepared to address tax policy issues.
More here on Hillary's potential sellout to insurance corporations on national health care and the obligatory focus on wealthy attendees to Democratic fundraisers. Am I the only one that notices that darn liberal press never makes a big deal out of the moneybags who support GOP candidates?
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