Millionaire lawyer Joe Lieberman continues to use his massive fundraising advantage over Ned Lamont to buy his way back into Washington. He’s raising over $100,000 per day from large corporations and Republican donors and that money is being swiftly turned around into what is surely going to be one of the most expensive ground game’s […]

It is now apparent that the US’s policy towards violence in the Middle East has been created on a boardgame version of the world and is played out by the administration on a Big Board of the situation room. The Bush administration believes that for a sustainable peace to exist between Israel and its neighbors, […]

I was a very interesting question last night: why do you have a problem with the description “antiwar candidate Ned Lamont”? The impetus for the question was the confusion that readers might have who see blogs like thos one, on the one hand, taking highly critical positions of reporters and pundits who describe Lamont as […]

Endorsed by his supporters
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Ned Lamont shoots a new TV ad with dozens of his supporters voicing their approval.

Ned & his supporters
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In between takes at the latest Ned Lamont campaign ad shoot.

Ned Lamont television ad shoot
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Tucked ever-so prominently into Adam Nagourney’s piece on Lieberman that will run in tomorrow’s edition of the New York Times, but is already available online, is this glorious gem.
[The editorial page of The New York Times on Sunday endorsed Mr. Lamont over Mr. Lieberman, arguing that the senator had offered the nation a “warped version […]

As predicted, the Lieberman campaigns efforts to distance themselves from the Bush kiss by hyping the Clinton back-pat hug has only succeeded in tying Lieberman ever-closer to the Bush kiss at the State of the Union.
From the Hartford Courant:
Lamont sympathizers had posted Lieberman’s schedule on Internet blogs, so Lieberman was trailed throughout the day by […]

More from the campaign that can’t shoot straight. Joe Lieberman started his ten day “Lieberman on Ice” tour to introduce himself to Connecticut voters for the first time in 18 years. Oddly, though, with one day completed no public schedule has been released for the remaining nine days.
While that sounds bad, it’s Standard Operating Procedure […]

China’s Tibet railway isn’t the engineering marvel it’s cracked up to be. The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts details some of the serious problems the railway is experiencing after less than a month of service.
The safety of passengers on the world’s highest - and newest - railway is threatened by cracks, yaks and shifting sands, the Chinese […]