Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader went public Thursday with an allegation that Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe offered his campaign money to stay off the ballot in key states during the 2004 elections — a disclosure timed to raise questions about McAuliffe’s fitness for public office. “Terry McAuliffe is slipperier than an eel in olive oil,” Nader said in an interview. He said McAuliffe, who was the Democratic National Committee

Steve Benen and others airily dismiss the idea that there was bias in the closure of Republican vs Democrat dealerships, even though Car Czar Steven Rattner’s wife was a National Democratic Party Finance Chairwoman. Statistics that are available suggest that Chrysler auto dealers donated 76% Republican and 24% Democratic. So, rough estimating, JD puts the question: Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 11:45 am # |Edit This There is surely

Being a reflection on my sadly predictable prescience: At the concert, headlined by Jennifer Hudson and Earth, Wind and Fire, Obama responded to an audience member yelling, “Yes we can” by saying, “Yes we have. But we’ve got more work to do. We can’t rest on our laurels. “We didn’t ask for the challenges that we face, but we don’t shrink from them either,” he said. “It won’t be easy.

is the bond market. O’Reilly jumps the shark by blaming Hot Air for a comment left in a thread. Both stupid and deplorable. What I don’t understand is Allah Pundit’s question concerning how much blame Amanda Carpenter deserves for not calling O’Reilly on it. Chances are, Carpenter didn’t know it was a comment rather than a post–as unforgivable as that may be when it comes to Hot Air. At any

A couple of days ago, I asked for a statistician to analyze the data regarding the closings of Chrysler dealerships and the apparent relation to donations to Republicans. I’m not going to say that the following is rigorous, but it does at least give one a ballpark figure: This work builds upon the research done by numerous parties, most notably Joey Smith. It is a follow-up to my original post,

It was called “the shot that changed the republic.” The killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer in West Berlin set off a left-wing protest movement and put conservative West Germany on course to evolve into the progressive country it has become today. Now a discovery in the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, has upended Germany’s perception of its postwar

Golden Thing sold for $10k: A transcript of a secretly recorded phone call between the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was released in federal court today, a call in which Burris, then seeking the Senate seat, was recorded offering the Blagojevich campaign a campaign check. “I know I could give him a check,” Burris said. “Myself.” But in the same call, Burris tells Robert

Worldwide, 100 dead from flu. What makes it so scary is that it’s Swine Flu.