Some members of the FDL gang were chatting away about the circumstances surrounding the photo of George W. Bush with the well-heeled GOP donor, Robert Toussie — who just happens to be father of Isaac Toussie, he of the on-again, off-again Bush pardon.

California isn’t the only front where marriage rights are being vehemently fought for.  On November 4, in Arizona Prop 102 amended that state’s Constitution by adding the following article: Marriage – Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. The Yes on 102 [...]

John McCain–or rather his lawyers–have responded to Jackson Browne’s lawsuit against McCain, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party over the use of  nine seconds of the song "Running on Empty" in a YouTube video made by the ORP.  McCain’s attorneys are asking that the suit be dismissed without prejudice. According to the [...]

CNN screengrab via youtube.com Baseball has been very, very good to Nate Silver.  So has politics.  A baseball fan and statistician par excellence, he is one of the top guns at Baseball Prospectus, which uses its own variants on the Bill James "sabermetrics" system to analyze major-league baseball teams and predict their future performance.  Among [...]

Is it possible that the first reported incident of attempted voter fraud is Joe the Plumber?? Priceless.

I guess George and Laura Bush know that McCain’s criticisms are just politics

Here’s a question some enterprising journamalism person with access to McCain/Palin folks might want to ask:  who told Palin to amend her travel expense reports? Via DailyMail: It is claimed Ms Palin contacted her office after being selected as John McCain’s running mate in September and told staff to amend her expenses so that it [...]

Watch the video. Yes, my friends, he’s done it again.

By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard about the fantastic own-goal committed on Hardball Friday night by Minnesota’s very own answer to Katherine Harris, Michele Bachmann.  Bachmann, who apparently also studies the behavior of fellow Republican Congresswoman Jean Schmidt for clues on deportment, not only approved of the robocall lies of the McCain campaign, but [...]

Joe the plumber turns out not to be quite who he said he was, and his business plan for getting eligible for that tax increase has a few holes.