On Thursday, Vilsack established a presidential campaign committee by filing documents with the Federal Election Commission, the AP reports.

First on the block.

All Headline News - Iowa Governor Kicks Off Dem. Race For White House - November 9, 2006

'nuff said.

Election 2006: Senate and House Races Updated Daily

ABC is marketing its docudrama, The Path to 9/11, as “based on the 9/11 Commission Report.” It is defending the films multiple inaccuracies by claiming some scenes were “drawn from a variety of sources.”

Now we finally have an answer to the question:
What does it take to air a 2hr docudrama commercial free on broadcast television now a days.

The answer is lies, lies, lies.

_Path to 9/11_ is a "docudrama" whose major thesis is that 9/11 happened because President Clinton didn't prevent it. It is airing on ABC.

This is a link to the thinkprogress tag about everything related to the film. I can only cite some of the highlights:

* Scholastic is giving out materials to teachers clearly made w/ partisian politics in mind.

* At NO POINT did Fmr National Security Advisor Sandy Berger discourage going after Osama bin Ladin.

This is so very paritsan it's sick. The best part is that it will air commercial free. When's the last time you heard a broadcast network do that? (esp. concidering all the free press it's been getting on this fantasy)

Think Progress [tag Path to 911]

I hate blogs. But I like the washington post and I like David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria. PostGlobal is a good comprimise.

PostGlobal: A Conversation on Global Issues - washingtonpost.com

Maryland's Ugly Flag

POSITION OF DANIEL R. VOVAK:
"As a lover of the arts, I encourage Maryland to redesign its flag. I will encourage art students to create a completely new design for our State flag, with a full-paid college scholarship to the student who wins the contest. View State flags. You will immediately find Maryland's flag to be the ugliest flag in America. In fact, after further study, I have concluded Maryland has the ugliest flag in the world. View world flags.

I was just saying to myself, "if I were to run a guy for the Senate what issue would catipult him into the chamber?" It would need to be haughty and high-handed, a bit pompous to be sure. Oh I know! Lets focus on crap and not anything that's important to the community.

Elect Daniel 'The Wig Man' Vovak For United States Senator In Maryland, Republican 2006

The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure our national policies reflect these values. Our policy and communications efforts are organized around four major objectives:

• developing a long term vision of a progressive America,
• providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,
• responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique and clear alternatives, and
• communicating progressive messages to the American public.

The Center for American Progress is an awesome think tank that runs several sites besides just http://www.americanprogress.org including:

http://www.americanprogressaction.org
http://www.campusprogress.org
http://www.radioprogress.org
http://www.thinkprogress.org

The Center was founded by John Podesta and so he's my new boss.

Center for American Progress

The day Judge Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court, I interviewed Kate Pringle, a partner in a New York law firm whom I met working on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Pringle was a law clerk for Judge Alito after she graduated from law school, so she knows him better than most of us. She's a liberal Democrat, but she nonetheless supports Alito's nomination, and she is going to testify in support of him later this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. So I thought it would be useful to reprint the interview. See below...

So this "Kate Pringle" person... No one from the Kerry campaign remember's her. I'm sure someone's combing thru the w-2s but I'm pretty sure she didn't work for the Kerry campaign.

Basically this whole thing is bullshit.

Blue Mass. Group :: A liberal who supports Alito: reprinting my interview with Kate Pringle

Cryptic inside the beltway gossip.

The link you have isn't cannonical. The better one is the one I meme'ed already. Yours points to a specific story...

--timball

ABC News: The Note: Rooting Interest

Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today

An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN:

1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end.

2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters.

3. The indictments will be sealed indictments and "filed" tomorrow.

4. A press conference is being scheduled for Thursday.

The shoe is dropping.

More soon.

So it was Fitzmas-eve today... It will be officially Fitzmas tomorrow with a press conference about Fitzmas Thursday.

--timball

Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today

The Republican-controlled Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure Wednesday that would set standards for the military's treatment of detainees, a response to the Abu Ghraib scandal and other allegations that U.S. soldiers have abused prisoners.
"Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Conventions," he said, referring to the international agreement on the treatment of prisoners of war. "Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death.
"But every one of us -- every single one of us -- knew and took great
strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were
better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace
ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them."

'Bout god damn time. You cannot chunk the Geneva Convention claiming its quaint without replacing it with a better standard and expect people to "just trust you" while huge abuse scandals are going down.

Senate sets standards on detainees / Lawmakers defy Bush to overwhelmingly OK McCain bill in response to Abu Ghraib