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John McCain’s grumpy old pal writes to Bo Cowgill’s boss.

Joe Lieberman:
May 19, 2008
Dr. Eric Schmidt
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear Dr. Schmidt:
YouTube is being used to share videos produced by al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups. The purpose of this letter is to request that Google implement its own policy against this offensive material, remove these [...]

Senator Obama’s statement that kindergartners should be given sex education is the first serious mistake of his campaign, and Republicans are quickly going to move in to take advantage of it.

Tony Blankley

Excerpt of the rest of the discussion:
MS. CLIFT: There are actually 51 Democrats, although Joe Lieberman generally votes with the Republicans –
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What do you do with Lieberman?
MS. CLIFT: — and Tim Johnson is ill and hasn’t been voting.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Is he an Independent? Where do you put him?
MS. CLIFT: He calls himself [...]

Intrade: Obama and Clinton at near-parity

Full disclosure: I trade real money in all markets mentioned.
Both preceding and after the utterly uninformed pronouncements from the past week or so that Hillary was “the one to beat,” that she was “in a league with Tiger Woods and Roger Federer: no. 1,” the futures markets have voiced a somewhat different opinion.
Hillary, past 120 [...]

YET ANOTHER PRO-ISRAEL WARMONGER TRIES TO PUSH AMERICA INTO ANOTHER MIDDLE EAST WAR.

CBS News:
The United States should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday on Face The Nation. “I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,” [...]

Summary of the Tradesports DEMS.HOUSE.OVER29.5 issue, and the TS “credibility gap”

In the past weeks, there was something of a dust-up over TS’ handling of the DEMS.HOUSE.OVER29.5 contract. According to all American media, the Democrats needed 15 new House seats to gain control of the House of Representatives. And, indeed, in the final days leading up to the election, there an excellent synchronization between the DEMS.HOUSE.OVER14.5 [...]

BetFair: “Which of these parties will have more seats in the US Senate following the 2006 US Senate Elections?” – UPDATE FOLLOWING TODAY’S BETFAIR NOTICE TO TRADERS

[This blog post replaces a deleted posting written after I have misread the BetFair statement. Sorry for the glitch.]

I thought of the problem (which I described in my previous blog post), over a good night, and my sentiment is that:
#1. It’s probably legitimate to group the Independents with the Democrats, since most political analysts and [...]

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