By introducing moral imagination to the foreign-policy conversation, the Republican candidate is doing the nation an important service.
A dispute has broken out among fans of Ron Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy about whether he’s a strategic liability. Paul, says Kevin Drum, is such a “toxic, far-right, crackpot messenger” that “the only thing he’s accomplishing is to make non-interventionism even more of a fringe view in American politics than it already is.”
It’s certainly true that Paul’s hawkish critics are using his weirder ideas and checkered past to try and make non-interventionism synonymous with creepiness. But, whatever their success, Paul is making one contribution to the foreign policy debate that could have enduring value.
It doesn’t lie in the substance of his foreign policy views (which I’m largely but not wholly in sympathy with) but in the way he explains them. Paul routinely performs a simple thought experiment: He tries to imagine how the world looks to people other than Americans.
GOP: Defeat of Health Law Repeal Is Step Toward Victory in 2012
WASHINGTON — To hear Senate Republicans tell it, the defeat of their attempt to repeal the Democrats’ health care overhaul was really a victory of sorts on the long the march to the 2012 congressional and presidential elections.
The repeal effort sank Wednesday along party lines, 51-47 as expected. But in the process, Republicans forced Democrats on the record in favor of President Barack Obama’s signature overhaul and launched what they described as a two-year effort to discredit it in the lead-up to a bid for a second term.
“These are the first steps in a long road that will culminate in 2012, whereby we will expose the flaws and the weaknesses in this legislation,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the party’s campaign chief.
Poll shows 65 percent of New Jersey voters would not back Gov. Chris Christie for president. Still, his job-approval rating is ‘not bad’ for a GOP governor of a blue state.
Plenty of Republicans running for office in the next election cycle would no doubt be delighted to have New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie campaign with them on their home turf. Some even talk of seeing his name somewhere on the GOP presidential ticket in 2012.
But a poll released Tuesday finds that almost two-thirds of New Jersey voters would not vote for their tough-talking, budget-slashing governor for president, compared with just 25 percent who would. He doesn’t get many Garden State votes for vice president, either.
After deliberating through the afternoon Monday, the Travis County jury considering whether to convict former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be questioning the money laundering charges against him and went home for the night without a verdict.
In a series of notes to state District Judge Pat Priest , jurors asked whether money laundering could involve transactions that started out legally.
JUNEAU, Alaska — An Alaska federal judge ruled Friday that Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller’s challenge to the counting of write-in ballots raises “serious” legal issues but is a matter for a state, not federal, court to decide.
Yet in deferring to an Alaska state court for a final decision, U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline said he would grant a temporary injunction to halt official certification of the Nov. 2 election — an action Miller is seeking — so long as Miller takes his case to the state court by Monday. Miller told The Associated Press late Friday that he intended to do so. Continue reading “Federal Judge Halts Certification of Alaska Senate Election as Miller Eyes Lawsuit” »
(NewsCore) – Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he is considering running as a Republican for president in 2012 and will make a decision by June of next year.
“Well I tell you, I am thinking about things,” the business mogul and reality television star told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America.”
Candidates in Afghanistan’s September parliamentary elections are angry it is taking so long to declare the results. They accuse electoral officials of deliberately delaying the announcement while they rig the outcome, a charge the authorities deny.
Analysts say anger over the poll is growing and presents a threat to the country’s political stability. Bilal Sarwary reports from Kabul.
BBC News
Dozens of disgruntled candidates and their supporters took to the streets in the Afghan capital on Wednesday in the latest in a series of protests against alleged electoral fraud in the general election.
Chanting slogans and carrying banners written in Pashto, Dari and English, the protesters demanded that the attorney general’s office investigate their claims.
Mike Murphy, chief strategist to Meg Whitman, blamed public-employee unions and California’s status as “a very blue state” for the GOP gubernatorial candidate’s loss to Democrat Jerry Brown on Tuesday, even as she spent a national record $142 million of her own money trying to beat him.
Voters rebuffed Whitman and the entire GOP ticket in California, as the party lost every statewide race — with one, for attorney general, still too close to call — while Republicans swept into power across the nation.
When conducting a search for this article, one of the results was, “New cholera threat…Olbermann to return.” Not sure if Olbermann is being held responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, but the 9&10 News web site in Michigan reports:
NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Olbermann of MSNBC will be back on the air Tuesday, after being suspended indefinitely for making political donations to three candidates. MSNBC’s CEO says two days off the air is “appropriate.” NBC News forbids employees from making political donations unless given an exception in advance.
Olbermann returns to his Countdown show Tuesday which transformed MSNBC into the socialist network of the stars. For a short time, however, MSNBC was able to shut him up. He had no comment on the suspension.
Guests on the Nightly Business Report, airing on PBS nightly, are required to disclose when they own certain stocks that they are recommending or discounting. Although I strongly support Olbermann in this matter based on his First Amendment right and his general right to believe in Communism if he wishes, it would not be a bad idea to require media personalities to disclose which campaigns they donate to, especially when they are covering those campaigns in their newscasts.
The people of the Great State of Kentucky obviously did not buy into the Aqua-budda story the media plagued Republican Rand Paul with. Or they did not care. Despite the efforts of the Republican party in that State, Dr. Rand Paul will be their next Senator.
The Republican told NBC’s “Today” show that while people “complain a lot about gridlock,” the most fiscally conservative government “is always divided government.” (Washington Post)
Perhaps it will take an ophthalmologist to help the Senate see the Constitution more clearly.
Overall, however, the Republicans did not make the sweeping change of the House. Reid pulled off victory in the Senate, but at least Nanny Pelosi learned what it is like to loose a job.
PLEASE NOTE: We are continually updating this article as we find news until I get tired enough to go to bed.
Arizona is only barely fortunate that we are saddled with McCain for another six-years over Rodney Glassman. The overwhelming victory appears to be 59% to 35%. Libertarian David Nolan picked up 5%.
It looks like Gosar will take the seat in the House from Kirkpatrick. Currently 52% to 41%.
On the local front it appears that tax-and-spend Brewer wins out over sanctuary Terry in a closer race 56% to 41%. Apparently Barry Hess confused people in the Gubernatorial Debates by referring frequently to some old document.
Nationally, Fox News is reporting that Feingold was ousted and CNN reports Reid is gone, but Californians may still keep Boxer.
The House looks to be overwhelmingly Republican while they seem to be loosing the Senate.
Party strategists funnel donations from nonprofits into attack ads, records show
While President Obama and other Democrats have excoriated Republican “front groups” for using secret money to pay for attack ads, the party’s political committees have begun doing something similar: collecting cash from outside nonprofit groups that don’t disclose their contributors and using the money to pay for negative campaign commercials, campaign records show.
One group, Patriot Majority PAC — a Democratic political committee that has run a hard-hitting $1.7 million attack ad campaign against Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for Harry Reid’s Senate seat in Nevada — has gotten one of its largest donations, $250,000, from a left-leaning nonprofit that doesn’t release the names of any of its contributors, the records show.
Another newly formed political committee, America’s Families First Action Fund, which is running negative commercials against Republicans in House races across the country, recently got $1 million from a closely related nonprofit affiliate, the records show. Both organizations were set up over the summer by Democratic strategists, who emphasized in a memo to donors that contributions to the nonprofit could be kept anonymous.
What is it about the Supreme Court and unwelcome phone calls?
At 1 a.m. Monday, phones rang in thousands of Nevada households to deliver a message from retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
The O’Connor calls came just weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, left a voicemail for Anita Hill, seeking an apology for testifying in 1991 that Justice Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked under him in the Reagan administration. (Ms. Hill called the message “inappropriate” and reaffirmed her testimony.)
Justice O’Connor’s call didn’t involve anything so intimate, however. Her recorded message urged voters to approve Question 1, which would change the way state judges are selected.
Justice O’Connor didn’t assume the issue was keeping Nevadans up all night. Rather, the Yes on 1 campaign said, the calls were supposed to hit at 1 p.m. The robocall contractor blew it, and was fired, the campaign said.
Currently, the state’s district judges and Supreme Court justices run for office like other politicians. Under Question 1, the governor would fill judicial vacancies by choosing from a list the state Commission on Judicial Selection compiled, based on “qualifications and experience.” Voters would weigh in at the next election; newly appointed judges would approval from 55% of voters to keep the job.
Members of what US conservatives call the “mainstream media” know they are viewed as opponents by the Tea Party movement. But few expect to be handcuffed when they turn up at campaign events.
However bizarre in its particulars, the arrest on Sunday of Tony Hopfinger, a journalist, by security guards working for Joe Miller, Alaska’s Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for the Senate, was an incident waiting to happen. Continue reading “Tea Party gets tough with foes in media” »
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