Via Lutton, this from Wired:
A memo sent last year by a voting machine maker to election officials in Florida has reignited controversy over the reliability and accuracy of the company’s machines. Voting activists are now renewing calls to examine source code used in the Election Systems & Software machines during a close election last November.
Activists [...]

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Once again, I am deeply shocked at such shenanigans:
Two months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice Department to take his place.
Last April, Tim Griffin, a Rove aide and longtime GOP operative, sent the attorney general’s chief of staff [...]

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As Duncan reminds us, the Free Market Fairies spread their magic pixie dust over the housing finance market to deregulate it, and look how well that worked out.

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Arlen Specter - whore, or weeny? You decide.

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Why not clean up this terrorist haven?
Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies exchanged heavy mortar and machinegun fire with insurgents here Thursday as terrified residents streamed out of the Somali capital fearing a wider war.
A day after at least 14 people were killed, including soldiers who were dragged and burned in the streets, Prime Minister [...]

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Tony Snow:
The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn’t have oversight ability.

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They say (”they” being the Comcast repair people) I have internet access again, and Maya called to say she successfully installed a new hard drive in my computer (aka Disco Inferno), which I can pick up as soon as I can.
UPDATE: Well, not really. For some reason, I couldn’t get the signal from the modem [...]

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I often ask myself that same question.

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I think Cartman would agree:
NEW YORK The Washington Post in an editorial today declared that it saw nothing unusual or “nefarious in the dismissal process” in the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys. It called it “the supposed scandal.” At the same time, however, The Associated Press is out with a story that suggests that [...]

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I just don’t understand why they don’t insist on putting these people under oath:
As the White House prepares for a constitutional showdown over subpoenas of top administration aides to testify about the firings of U.S. attorneys, the viability of President Bush’s executive privilege argument may come down to the time-worn question: How much did the [...]

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You’d think industry would figure out they should work with the trailblazers instead of trying to parrot their ideas.

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I haven’t head Bush bragging about the record number of homebuyers lately. Could it be that his big contributors in the subprime mortgage market pumped up his “recovery” with a lot of hot air? Nah, they wouldn’t pull that old shell game, would they?
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Until last year, financial counselors at the Home Ownership [...]

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I’m very, very sad to hear the news about Elizabeth Edwards and the return of her cancer. She has been a real asset to the blogosphere, a wonderful person in her own right.

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Lots of newspapers now host blogs for their writers. For example, I tend to read John Micek’s Capitol Ideas daily to get the scoop on the writing by other Pennsylvania bloggers. (He’s from The Morning Call) I think he tends to incorporate the blogiverse pretty well on his blog.
We sometimes hammer the [...]

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It might be that they didn’t remove the Anchorage attorney…
The FBI is investigating whether Alaska political appointees improperly punished state regulators who tried to enforce environmental rules against oil companies operating in Alaska, according to people contacted by investigators.
The inquiry, which is being conducted by the Federal [...]

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Oh no, a mysterious gap:
Researchers have discovered an 18-day gap in the 3,000 documents on the U.S. Attorney purge released this week by the Justice Department. The gap extends from mid-November to early December, “which was a critical period as the White House and Justice Department reviewed, then approved, which U.S. attorneys would be fired [...]

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Turkey is getting ready to invade Iraq. This won’t be pretty.

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Lie lie lie lie liar you lie
Lie lie lie lie lie tell me why
Tell me why why d’you have to lie
Should’ve realised that you
Should’ve told the truth
Should’ve realised you know what I’ll do
You’re in suspension you’re a liar
Well well well, looky looky! John Conyers and his colleagues in the Judiciary Committee don’t seem all [...]

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Why, that would be the New York Times, the place that nurtured Judy Miller!
Trust me. If the right wing and their media enablers weren’t so afraid of Al Gore, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to destroy him:
Scheduled for March 21, former Vice President Al Gore’s high-profile congressional testimony on the pressing dangers of global [...]

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Yesterday I was speaking to my friend about how, when I got home that night, I was going to have internet access again.
“Yeah, you just continue to live in that happy place,” she said. (I could almost hear her repeating to herself, “White people are crazy.”)
Of course, I got home and there was no internet. [...]

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Beatles vs. the zombies:

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It has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
WASHINGTON - A House panel on Wednesday defied the White House and authorized subpoenas for President Bush’s political adviser, Karl Rove and other top aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
By voice vote and without objection, the House Judiciary subcommittee [...]

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Anna Wintour, the famous Vogue editor on whom the Meryl Streep character in “The Devil Wears Prada” is based, doesn’t like the word “blog” and has ordered her staff to come up with a new one.

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As the article says, web portfolios are exploding. So, do you have any favorite Flickr artists? Who has caught your eye?

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I promised Susie that after my absence, I’d add some spit and bile content to the site. And I was JUST ABOUT TO DO THAT when I opened an email from my friend Tim Kelly, who hosts the Late Riser’s Club on WMBR, Cambridge Massachusetts (a fantastic radio station across the board, by the [...]

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A bill for public financing of Congressional elections was introduced in the Senate today by Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter.

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It all sounds so much like Watergate, doesn’t it?

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Curiouser and curiouser. Was prosecutor Carol Lam targeting the White House before she was fired?
Referring to the Bush administration’s purge of former San Diego-based U.S. attorney Carol Lam, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) questioned recently on the Senate floor whether she was let go because she was “about to investigate other people who were politically powerful.”
The [...]

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This raises the question:
What book could you just not finish reading?

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A lot can happen between now and then, but apparently he’s planning to run for a sixth term in 2010. Sure seems like he should be vulnerable in both the primary and/or general…

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