Two upcoming Senate seats for 2010 have early polls.
The first involves Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews is considered a potential candidate for that seat. A Quinnipiac University poll has the race a near toss-up. Conducted November 19-24, Specter leads Matthews 45% to 43%.
On the other side of the country, Nevada Senate Majority Leader [...]

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Politico is reporting that publishers are expecting a boom in Obama books.
Two dozen books in the works range from the serious to the silly. There are retrospective ticktocks on how Obama won office and prospective looks at his first year in the White House. There is a biography on Obama’s father, a compilation of essays [...]

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According to the Pensito Review, Barack Obama has the largest margin of victory ever polled by a non-incumbent President. The current numbers show him with a 9,124,522 margin over John McCain.
His percentage win is less impressive. Obama’s 7% lead is the 13th highest non-incumbent total.
Nevertheless, that is enough for a mandate. It is a welcome [...]

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It looks like President Robert Mugabe’s time may finally be running out. That is not to say he will be kicked out in days, but the wall that protects him, the military, is losing its discipline.
About 70 soldiers appeared at a Harare bank to withdraw money. They were told the bank had run out of [...]

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Here is yet another priest telling his congregation that they must confess for voting for Barack Obama or any candidate who is pro-abortion. It looks like these stories crop up every week from everywhere around the country.
This one is in Modesto, California. Here is the story.
Here is a link to the letter the priest sent [...]

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A great political cartoon style by Patrick Blower.

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George Bush has a 20-something approval rating. So there are millions of Americans who believe he has been a good President. While his failings as a President are widely known, here is concise article by David Frum that makes the case that George Bush will go down in history as a good President. Read the full [...]

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A group of UFO enthusiasts has requested that Barack Obama release all files on UFO’s when he takes office. The Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee – yes, it does exist as “X-PPAC” – sent a letter requesting that Obama “end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.”
In the Telegraph:
The group wants [...]

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Barack Obama’s steamroller image as a fundraising machine was built on the idea that small contributors from all around the country poured $200 and less into his campaign.
The Obama campaign even promoted the idea that contributors of $200 and less made up 50% of the donations.
That is true…sort of.
The Campaign Finance Institute released some interesting [...]

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Big Brother is set to intrude on the people of the British Isles a bit more. In efforts to combat terrorism, the UK is already covered with cameras in sensitive urban areas. Now the British government wants more than just seeing what is going on, but knowing whom is communicating with whom.
Now Home Office officials [...]

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