“Students for a Free Tibet has been focused on the Beijing Games for over eight years. You can read about their efforts on their website, where they present their version of China’s slogan, One World, One Dream.”
You can learn more at Students for a Free Tibet’s home page: http://studentsforafreetibet.org.

Steve Gilliard
Originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein.

This weekend, The New York Times Magazine includes a piece on Steve Gilliard, a Democratic blogger who died this past June at the age of 42. Steve was the author of The News Blog, which remains in our blog roll. The powerful and moving piece by Matt Bai covers Gilliards […]

I am currently on an extended hiatus from blogging at Emboldened.
I began blogging in 2004 in the aftermath of the election. At the time, the Baltimore Group was designed to promote discussions between friends but it quickly transformed itself into the driving force behind my personal political evolution, even serving as the vehicle for […]

Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolff has a great look at the balance between Giuliani as star politician who commands the spotlight and Giuliani the crazed nut who’s probably moments away from doing something to completely destroy his presidential campaign.
His reign in New York—cutting his opponents dead while micro-managing or attacking the media as he sped off […]

This is probably my favorite poll of a candidate that isn’t actually in the race. Via the Hotline Wake-Up Call, we learn of this InsiderAdvantage poll of Tennessee Republicans:
F. Thomspon 45%
R. Giuliani 15%
Hilarious narratives ensue:
“Thompson Surges Past Giuliani”
“Giuliani Can’t Win In The South”
“GOP Placing Hope In Hollywood”
Fred Thompson is clearly the best fantasty candidate […]

Diarist Glenn Smith at MyDD:
With all due respect to the Rock & Roller, Rudy Guiliani is the Jerry Lee Lewis of American politics. He married his cousin. That’s incest. When Jerry Lee did it, it destroyed his career.
So it’s Jerry Lee Giuliani. He ought to be on the ballot that way. Some might consider this […]

Eric at Is That Legal:
Glenn and Helen report that they’ve just finished their in-home podcasting studio, which looks very cool indeed.
“My voice sounds like NPR just coming out of my mouth,” Helen exclaimed after a test-run.
Presumably they’ll have the technology to correct for that.
Oh, and today is Murphy’s 2nd birthday. He looks old.

Cross posted at The Huffington Post
Newt Gingrich’s entrance into CPAC was planned for someone who expected to win the straw poll. Though he didn’t win the poll outright, Newt effectively did win the straw poll. He tied Romney for 30% of total votes, coming in just behind Rudy Giuliani’s 34%. But Gingrich was received to […]

AP:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will serve as national co-chair of Republican John McCain’s presidential exploratory committee, the campaign said Wednesday.

This would probably be more impactful if Tom Ridge was still DHS Chair. McCain’s candidacy could really benefit from timely terror threat warnings. For example, “DHS Secretary Tom Ridge raised the terror threat level […]

Today would have been one of my favorite musicians in the world’s thirty-ninth birthday. Bradley Nowell of Sublime overdosed on heroin in 1996 at age twenty-eight. Shortly afterwards Sublime’s self-titled third album was released and turned them into one of the biggest rock bands in the country.
I thought you’d enjoy some clips of Nowell’s […]