Ryun Endorsed by Group with Ties to the Ku Klux
Klan

post from Boyda Bloc on 08 May 2008 12:32:00 PM. © Boyda Bloc

We posted earlier today former Congressman Jim Ryun has received the endorsement of the legislative arm of the Family Research Council, but it wasn't until this afternoon that we looked into FRC Action closer and found out that the endorsement ties Ryun directly to a man who once paid Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke $82,000 for a mailing list and was then fined for trying to cover it up.

In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

On top of that, in 2001:

Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America's premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South.

How Ryun could even fathom accepting an endorsement from any organization with ties to white supremacist is beyond anything we can understand. We demand he publicly reject the endorsement of FRC Action and publicly distant himself and his campaign from any group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and any other white supremacist organization.

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THE PARTY OF BARACK.

post from Ezra Klein on 08 May 2008 12:27:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

Matt Stoller has a very important post on the way in which Obama is changing the Democratic Party, and creating a new, centralized power structure that's much more powerful and vibrant than anything we've seen previously, but also entirely dependent on,[...]

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There Will Be An Election In November

post from TalkLeft on 08 May 2008 12:26:00 PM. © TalkLeft

This may come as a surprise to some people, but there will be an election in November. To read some blogs, you would think that Barack Obama's almost certain victory over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination means Obama advances straight to the White House. In case they did not know, it does not work that way.

One blogger says that it is silly to discuss Obama's failure to connect with white working class voters because:

Demographic and socio-economic differences between the two states,* plus the effects of Clinton’s ugly “kitchen sink” campaign, are not considered. [*For example, 31.7 percent of Virginians have college degrees, while 23.4 percent of North Carolinians have college degrees. Obama tends to do better among college-educated voters.]

I am curious if the blogger expects those voters without college degrees to suddenly get them by November and thus solve Obama's problem here. But I especially wonder if the blogger expects that Republicans will not campaign against Barack Obama. Or if they do, whether their campaign will be so much nicer than the Clinton campaign.

The reality based community? Not so much. Not anymore.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only.

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How You Should Play The Real Estate Market

post from Jutia GroupJutia Group on 08 May 2008 12:13:13 PM. © Jutia GroupJutia Group

The Real Estate Market is one of the biggest investment topics being discussed at the moment?

The news coming from the real estate sector has become so bad, and sentiment has become so negative, that I mentioned to my wife the other evening that perhaps we should look to capitalize on the housing market and or real estate market.

Like many other folks, she’d rather hunker down and wait for things to calm down. I can’t blame her. It’s tough to have the courage to buy any kind of investment when prices are plummeting almost across the board.

But I theorized that this particular…

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Chaitén

post from Talking Points Memo on 08 May 2008 12:13:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

In the course of scanning the news to populate our news section to the right there, I occasionally come across items that are unrelated to our focus on politics and muck but are so cool they're worth sharing. So indulge me for a moment my fascination[...]

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The Daily Rant

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 08 May 2008 12:11:00 PM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

Too many days working, a pulled neck muscle that won't quit, a ton of stuff to do in the yard, and more rain forecast for this weekend.

Shit.

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The Hill: Davis Campaign changes tune

post from Cotton Mouth on 08 May 2008 12:07:00 PM. © Cotton Mouth

The Hill, a website that covers Washington politics, reported that the Greg Davis campaign has been slow to file its 48 hour reports with the FEC.

Southaven Mayor Greg Davis?s (R) special-election campaign on Wednesday struggled to explain abnormally long delays in its Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings days before a special election for a Mississippi House seat that Republicans are desperate to win.

Davis?s campaign on Wednesday filed its first 48-hour report since Friday. That followed another span of eight days between 48-hour reports, which are due within two days of receiving any contribution of $1,000 or more in the weeks immediately preceding an election...

When The Hill went to get answer from the Davis Campaign, they got two different stories.

Davis campaign spokesman Ted Prill initially told The Hill that the campaign was under the impression that weekends didn?t count toward the 48-hour window, which along with a lack of large contributions explained the long spans between reports. FEC rules, however, state that weekends count just like regular days.

Davis?s campaign treasurer, Chuck Roberts, then said the campaign merely didn?t check its mail for contributions over the weekend because nobody was at the office, meaning that anything sent over this past weekend wasn?t actually received until Monday.

The FEC generally tells candidates that they should count delivery time as time of receipt, instead of when they pick something up.

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MS-01 The Hill: Davis Campaign changes tune

The Hill, a website that covers Washington politics, reported that the Greg Davis campaign has been slow to file its 48 hour reports with the FEC.

Southaven Mayor Greg Davis?s (R) special-election campaign on Wednesday struggled to explain abnormally long delays in its Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings days before a special election for a Mississippi House seat that Republicans are desperate to win.

Davis?s campaign on Wednesday filed its first 48-hour report since Friday. That followed another span of eight days between 48-hour reports, which are due within two days of receiving any contribution of $1,000 or more in the weeks immediately preceding an election...

When The Hill went to get answer from the Davis Campaign, they got two different stories.

Davis campaign spokesman Ted Prill initially told The Hill that the campaign was under the impression that weekends didn?t count toward the 48-hour window, which along with a lack of large contributions explained the long spans between reports. FEC rules, however, state that weekends count just like regular days.

Davis?s campaign treasurer, Chuck Roberts, then said the campaign merely didn?t check its mail for contributions over the weekend because nobody was at the office, meaning that anything sent over this past weekend wasn?t actually received until Monday.

The FEC generally tells candidates that they should count delivery time as time of receipt, instead of when they pick something up.

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Dont Fear The Ides Of March Just Follow These
Simple Anti-Recession Tips

“Beware the Ides of March.”

So said a wise soothsayer to Julius Caesar in the famous Shakespeare play, warning him of impending doom. Caesar scoffed at him - and of course lived to regret it when he paid the ultimate price.

Fortunately, March 15 (the Ides day itself) falls on Saturday this year, so there’s no chance of any market madness on that specific day. But there are still plenty of modern-day financial soothsayers warning investors about all kinds of perils. One prime example: The constant chatter about whether or not the U.S. economy has slipped into a recession.

So let’s first poke…

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Elizabeth Edwards: ‘Most Preventable Cause
Of Unnecessary Suffering’ Is Lack Of Health Insurance

Conservatives love to crow that the United States has “the best health care in the world.” Yet these same conservatives overlook the fact that 47 million Americans lack any health insurance at all, leaving them shut out of access to this world-class health care.

Indeed, as Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Elizabeth Edwards told the Senate Health Committee today, “It doesn’t matter what kind of services we have if we don’t have access to them”:

Health insurance matters. The quality of coverage, of course, matters, but health insurance itself is really crucial part of this. Probably the most preventable cause of unnecessary suffering in our health care system is the lack of adequate health insurance. … We know how to lengthen and improve the lives of people with cancer. But we’ve chosen as a nation to turn our backs on some of us who have the disease. I urge you to reform health care responsibly, morally, and aggressively.

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Edwards urged the senators to “build on the successful system of employer-based coverage,” a system that covers 158 million Americans — and that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has promised to completely dismantle. Instead, he has proposed a paltry $5,000 tax credit for individuals to fend for themselves in the health insurance market, even though the average annual premium of an employer-based insurance policy is $12,000.

Edwards also mentioned the disturbing disparities in access faced by minorities. FamiliesUSA writes, “Although racial and ethnic minorities constitute one third of the total U.S. population, they comprise more than one half (52 percent) of the uninsured population. In fact, in 2003, 23 million of the 45 million uninsured were racial and ethnic minority Americans.” Rather than cover these people, McCain’s plan could result in 158 million more Americans losing their health insurance.

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