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The Center for Rural Strategies has John McCain leading Barack Obama 50%-41% a poll released today of likely voters in rural parts of 13 swing states: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. The (sorta) good news for Obama is that George W. Bush’s won rural voters nationally by 11 points in 2000 and 19 points in 2004.  A June 2007 CRS poll gave a

Ta-Nehesi Coates has a piece on Bill Cosby up at The Atlantic that is worth a read, though his own opinions might be getting in the way of his understanding of Cosby.  For example, Coates is perplexed by Cosby’s attitude regarding Barack Obama: The strain of black conservatism that Cosby evokes has also surfaced in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Early on, some commentators speculated that Obama’s Cosby-esque appeals

1. What is Wired? For 15 years, Wired has been the first word on how technology is changing the world. Each month, the magazine delivers a glimpse into the future of business, science, entertainment, education, culture and politics. *** Wired.com is the real-time version of Wired magazine. 2. What is the most popular item on Wired.com at the moment? A slideshow titled, “Air Hostesses of Yesteryear.” 3. Does Wired know

Sex, by the book: Principles of Pleasure Sexual desire and orgasm are subject to various influences on the brain and nervous system, which controls the sex glands and genitals. The ingredients of desire may differ for men and women, but researchers have revealed some surprising similarities. For example, visual stimuli spur sexual stirrings in women, as they do in men. Achieving orgasm, brain imaging studies show, involves more than heightened

it can only be described as Rovian: Jill Simpson is an unusual woman. A lawyer, she has scratched out an uncertain living in DeKalb County, Alabama. Fellow DeKalb County lawyers describe her as “a very strange person” who “lives in her own world.” The daughter of rabid Democrats, she has rarely if ever been known to participate in politics as even a low-level volunteer. Yet today, she is a minor

In the wake of Lori Drew’s indictment, which I noted a couple of times yesterday, comes word of a case in which a 15-year-old Florida girl claims in a YouTube video that she was raped by a 23 year old, but that the DA has declined to press charges because she was only a month shy of the age of consent, which is 16, there. I should also note that

At The Moderate Reliably Lefty Voice, ventriloquist Joe Gandelman again plays the dummy for Barack Obama’s campaign, dutifully relaying the talking point that Obama’s hysterical over-reaction to Pres. Bush’s comments on appeasement of terrorists and radicals shows he’s a fighter. As Ed Morrissey notes at HotAir, Obama’s response shows that Obama is now claiming he would follow the very same Bush Administration approach he wants to claim has failed.  This from

Reluctantly in the news: The indictment of Lori Drew in the MySpace suicide case brings a small sense of satisfaction to Richmond-area blogger Sarah Wells.Wells is credited with being the first person to identify Lori Drew publicly as the person allegedly responsible for creating a fake MySpace account from which cruel messages were sent to Megan Meier, 13, of suburban St. Louis. Though Megan killed herself in October 2006, allegedly

Re-Imagining the Pantsuit: A Feminist Primer to Hillary 2012 Please submit your paper topics or ideas for panels to:  croolwurld-at-earthlink.net  by June 30th, 2008.