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I recently finished reading Joe Conason’s new book, It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril In The Age of Bush. I, like many bloggers and blog readers, read pretty much every book I can get my hands on that offers to explain our current political epoch and place daily events in the […]

In case you had any lingering doubts that Senator John McCain is one of the Bush administration’s favorite war hawks, Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that he and McCain stand shoulder to shoulder on Iran.
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has raised the possibility of military action to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
He has endorsed Republican […]

The attorney for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out against homosexuality said Thursday that the minister has a constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman.
The Rev. Lonnie W. Latham had supported a resolution calling on gays and lesbians to reject their “sinful, destructive lifestyle” before his Jan. 3, 2006, arrest […]

Michael Froomkin Steve Benen, writing at The Carpetbagger Reporter, refers us to some other outlandish statements from Duncan Hunter’s new co-chair of his South Carolina operation, Henry Jordan. Froomkin Benen knew Jordan from his statement bigoted 1997 statement “Screw the Buddhists and kill the Muslims.”
An unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor both in 1996 and […]

You’d think with all his book deals, newspaper columns, and TV appearances, political hack Dick Morris could afford to pay the state of Connecticut the money he owes.
The state is looking for money from delinquent tax payers who owe millions of dollars in back taxes.
There are actually two lists, one that lists the top […]

Well, I guess when the campaign itself is tinged with the gooey residue of nativism and eliminationism, this isn’t surprising.
In his latest appeal to the Republican base, Duncan Hunter has named Dr. Henry Jordan as his South Carolina campaign co-chair. This Henry Jordan:
COLUMBIA, S.C. (May 16, 1997 12:25 p.m. EDT) — A state Board of […]

Jerome Armstrong raises a very interesting point about California: the conditions are now set, thanks to their February 5th primary date, for Giuliani to go big in California and take a huge chunk of delegates there while ignoring early states like Iowa. Armstrong originally posted that California’s delegates were winner-take-all, but updated his post to […]

This is a pretty cool summation of what happened at the DNC winter meeting at the start of this month. There’s a clip of me getting interviewed commenting on the meeting at 23 seconds.
Transcript:
It’s been exciting. It’s been a great opportunity to see the array of candidates, what they’re talking about, how people are responding […]

From yesterday’s debate:
Another candidate, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who has also renounced his 2002 vote, said there was “nothing wrong” with admitting mistakes.
“There are two things that people in public life — two responses people in public life never like to give, and I don’t understand why: ‘I made a mistake’ and ‘I […]

Amy Taylor of DMIBlog does yet another fantastic piece of a presidential candidate’s position and history on immigration. This week her subject is Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. Regular readers of The Right’s Field know that Tancredo’s campaign exists solely to make immigration a major issue during the Republican primary. Tancredo didn’t see any other candidate […]