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Chinese president proposes guidelines for Sino-Australian ties Xinhua - 3 hours ago Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and Australian Prime Minister John Winston Howard meet press after their talks in...
View ArticleNational polls don't matter?
The party line here is that national primary polls don't matter; that only individual state polls matter, because states hold their own individual votes to apportion their own slates of delegates. But...
View ArticleGoodridge v. Department of Public Health
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announces each morning which opinions it will release at 10:00 AM. Today, according to its website, it will finally release its ruling on gay marriage. Poll:...
View Article180 days
Some wonder what to make of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's language staying its recent marriage decision for 180 days:Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the...
View ArticleColorado Supreme Court strikes down redistricting
See here. Opinions here and here. Update: Here's the AP story, Colorado Supreme Court Rules GOP Redistricting Unconstitutional: In a decision that could have national implications, the Colorado Supreme...
View ArticleDeLay subpoena quashed
Bummer.The federal panel agreed with the lawmakers' attorney that only under exceptional circumstances, such as having unique information in a case, could they be subject to a subpoena. Unless evidence...
View ArticleNonresident gay marriages in MA
GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS TITLE III., DOMESTIC RELATIONS, CHAPTER 207. MARRIAGE CERTAIN MARRIAGES PROHIBITED Chapter 207: Section 11 Non-residents;...
View ArticleRewriting the Federal Marriage Amendment
The current version of the Federal Marriage Amendment introduced in Congress ("Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this constitution or the...
View ArticleMcCain-Feingold BCRA upheld
The Supreme Court has upheld all of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, except for the provisions restricting minors' donations and requiring parties to choose between coordinated and...
View ArticleCheney v. U.S. District Court
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Cheney's appeal in Cheney v. U.S. District Court. Decision on whether to grant cert had been delayed for several weeks, with the case being relisted several times...
View ArticleStupid Finneran
From a CNC rag:Charles Rasmussen, a spokesman for House Speaker Thomas Finneran, said the state constitution only allows the Senate to request an advisory opinion from the SJC. He declined to comment...
View Article"Unelectable" -- a miserable failure
Whereas googlebombing "failure" was a roaring success, googlebombing "unelectable" has been a miserable failure. Though someone registered unelectable.com (#4) and pointed it at Bush's bio, and though...
View ArticleSenator's wife sues for [malpractice] damages he wants to curb
While the Missouri Senate's president is pushing for a state constitutional amendment capping jury awards in malpractice cases, his wife is suing her opthamologist for the very sort of damages (pain...
View ArticleStanding
How do six lawmakers and a church have standing to review a divorce granted to two people who wanted it? The Iowa Supreme Court is letting them.
View ArticleOne marriage amendment voted down
As you should know, the Massachusetts General Court (Legislature) is meeting as a Constitutional Convention today to consider anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments. So far, the first such...
View ArticleMA ConCon adjourns without passing amendment
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention has adjourned for the evening without passing any of the proposed anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments. The proposed bi-partisan compromise amendment...
View ArticleMA ConCon reconvenes to consider marriage amendments
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention just reconvened to consider proposed constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage. Although last night's proposals were voted down, it is unclear that...
View ArticleMA ConCon continues; Travis amendment defeated
It looks like the (revised) Travis amendment was defeated 96-103, and the Convention is now in recess until 7:45pm. This appears to have been the new compromise that was caucused on this afternoon and...
View ArticleMA Convention adjourns until March 11
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention adjourned at midnight until March 11 without taking any further votes. What'll happen next at that point is anyone's guess.
View ArticleA stroll down memory lane
I was reminiscing about this comment or one like it, from December 8, 2003 (amid reports of Gore's pending endorsement):The 9 way debates have been entertaining and a lot of fun to watch, but it's time...
View ArticleDraft Donald Trump for President
His personnal brand is at an all-time high thanks to his hit tv show. He's a maverick billionaire who could self-finance and who could run on a platform of shaking up Washington. He's even done it...
View ArticleEdwards not on ballot in Vermont
The AP is reporting that Edwards won't be on the primary ballot in Vermont on Super Tuesday, because he never bothered filing back in January. He apparently figured it wasn't worth the time and...
View ArticleBush will lose Alabama
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand Alabama still has not changed its election laws to move back its August 31 deadline for presidential cnadidates to get nominated and put on the ballot. Since...
View ArticlePickering will rehear Roe v. Wade case?
Howard Bashman is reporting that Pickering will be on the three-judge panel hearing McCorvey v. Hill, where Norma McCorvey (aka Roe from Roe v. Wade) will seek to have Roe v. Wade reopened and...
View ArticleLetter to my Congressman on 9/11 extension refusal
Here's what I wrote my (Massachusetts) Congressman on Hastert's decision not to allow the 9/11 Commission's May deadline to get extended:I was infuriated to learn yesterday that House Speaker Dennis...
View ArticleLetter from Birmingham Health and Racquet Club
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently said of the Mayor of New Paltz's decision to grant same-sex marriages:"For those that want to grandstand and recommend that we break the law, I think their time...
View ArticlePelosi Indicted for Murder
Some headlines are just too scary for a Democratic political junkie to read on any amount of coffee.
View ArticleClarke and Specter separated at birth?
Appropos of absolutely nothing, am I the only one who thinks Richard Clarke kinda physically looks like Arlen Specter might if he stopped dying his hair? Pictures below the fold.
View ArticleNext talkingpoint on Clarke
From today's Boston Globe: An only child who lost his father at a young age and whose mother supported him on her nurse's salary, Clarke stood out as a bright pupil at Charles H. Taylor School in...
View ArticleMassachusetts approves gay marriage ban for this year
Sadly, the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, voting 105-92, gave final approval for this year to a proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages but providing for civil...
View ArticleMA Attorney General won't let Governor seek stay of gay marriages
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly has announced that he'll block Governor Mitt Romney from seeking a stay of the Supreme Judicial Court's Goodridge ruling, under which marriage licenses will be...
View ArticleBlackwater SWAT tournament to be broadcast on ESPN
Here's the press release from March:Blackwater USA has partnered with OnTarget Communications and the Virginia Beach Police Department to create the first truly "World SWAT Conference and Challenge"...
View ArticleI'd like to see a Clinton PDB
There's no chance the Bush administration would allow one to be declassified and released, but I'd love to see a comparable PDB from the Clinton administration. Not so much for the content, but to see...
View ArticleIllustrated Diebold ballot:
Please vote for one of the following candidates for President:John F. Kerry or George W. Bush Thank you for using Diebold E-Voting technology.
View ArticleBush: "We were stovepiped"
Bush admitted something last night he shouldn't have. In response to the question about whether he felt any personal responsibility for 9/11 (as if...), he launched on a rambling non-answer about...
View ArticleToday's Scalia hypocrisy
In his plurality opinion today in Vieth v. Jubelirer (the partisan gerrymandering case), Scalia wrote: Political affiliation is not an immutable characteristic, but may shift from one election to the...
View ArticleObama stalking could lead to new law
The Boston Globe is reporting that Jack Ryan's videocamera stalking of Illinois's next senator, Barrack Obama, has spurred Chicago's city council to consider new legislation restricting the use of such...
View ArticleCheney wins, mostly
The Supreme Court handed down its opinions today in Cheney v. U.S. District Court. It hasn't hit the presses yet, but SCOTUSblog has a flash item:Per Kennedy, the Court vacates. The government's...
View ArticleBoston Globe's scathing editorial on Bush and the Swifties
Via Josh Marshall, I see the Boston Globe has a (favorable for our side) Sunday editorial on the parallel and between Clinton's treatment of Dole's military record in 1996 and Bush's treatment (via the...
View ArticleNeed some slogans for Sunday's NYC march
Any suggestions on anti-Bush slogans to put on signs to carry on Sunday's march in Manhattan? I've got the show-up-with-a-warm-body-or-two part down, but my creative juices aren't flowing at the moment.
View Article1,000th American Soldier dies in Iraq
Icasualties.org just updated its table of military fatalities to indicate the 1,000th American soldier to have died in Iraq.09/07/04 1,000 UNITED STATES TROOPS DEAD IN IRAQ 09/07/04 CENTCOM: One...
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Photographic evidence of Karl Rove's genius
Karl Rove (R), political advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites), pulls a prank on U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) as they both step off Air...
View ArticleNew LATimes poll favors Kerry
The LATimes has new poll results in their Sunday edition. Although the poll only covers respondents who watched the debate, the results show Kerry improved his stats with those viewers across the...
View ArticleKerry wins all coin tosses
September 30, 2004:LEHRER: Good evening, Mr. President, Senator Kerry. As determined by a coin toss, the first question goes to you, Senator Kerry. You have two minutes. [...] And, again, as determined...
View ArticleBush in freefall according to 2.004k.com polls
Andrea Moro at the University of Minnesota has a site that fetches new polls from 2.004k.com hourly and recalculates the probability that Bush will (or won't) win on election day based on those polls....
View ArticlePlamegate = Watergate?
Criminal inquiry into shady election-related shenanigans, didn't sink the president until somewhat into his second term.... But where's the congressional oversight? Nowhere. Fuck, I can't do this....
View ArticleMassachusetts Upholds Equal Marriage Rights
By a vote of 157-39, the Massachusetts state legislature today defeated the anti-same-sex-marriage state constitutional amendment that was passed 105-92 last year. Had it been approved by a majority...
View ArticleSCOTUS restores habeas for Guantanamo detainees
SCOTUSBlog has the breaking news:In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a...
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Sen. Stevens Guilty
MSNBC is reporting that Stevens was found guilty of making false statements. Developing.Alaska Daily News confirms: WASHINGTON - A jury has found U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens guilty of all seven counts of...
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