Dr. Ron Paul, the so-called “fringe candidate” by many of the so-called “political pundits,” reported 3rd quarter political contributions in the amount of $5.1 million. Not bad. This would be about McCain territory, and 5X Huckabee territory. “It’s really fascinating,” Paul said, seeming as surprised with the news as was much of the rest of [...]

The first question in tonight’s Democratic debate invited the candidates to address an important issue: Withdrawing troops from Iraq. Tim Russert asked each candidate, starting with Obama and Clinton, whether they would assure that all troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by 2013, the end of their first term. Russert followed up aggressively with each [...]

Chris Cillizza of The Fix, one of the Washington Post’s political blogs, points out today the canny strategy Barack Obama is following. No, he doesn’t have much in the way of political experience. Yes, he voted against the Iraq war from the beginning. Emphasis on his sound judgment. Cillizza quotes Obama’s speech from yesterday: “Conventional [...]

According to Mike Gravel, taken exactly from a MySpace bulletin off his site today. The Real Lessons of 9/11 As we mark the six anniversary of the 9/11 attack, it is time for Americans to face the real lessons of that horrible morning. Until we dispel the myths which the Bush Administration and a compliant [...]

The strongest indicators for predicting Presidential elections are whether there is a “shooting” war involving U.S. troops and the economy. If the Presidential election were to be held today, the Iraq issue would top the list. Two factors may alter this dynamic. First, there may be a “resolution” to the Iraq involvement. Even if the [...]

No, all those things in the title aren’t related. They were just all covered in a Washington Post article, actually 4 articles in the A Section. It’s a good summary of what’s going on in politics today. As everyone has probably heard (we even linked to an article in our Link Sandwich 7/31) Fred Thompson [...]

The Stump has a lot of good news today, on Thompson changing his campaign manager, on Obama being down and maybe out, and on Rudy’s electability Salon.com has a really cool piece on how the Democrats differ on Iraq. The Politico has the story that Obama is now modeling his campaign on that of Ronald [...]

The link of the weekend is from The Street.com’s Politics Blog. John Fout talks about the possibility of the Iraq war being a non-issue in the upcoming election. Click the sandwich! In his Captain’s Quarters blog Captain Ed talks about Democrats and terrorism. In the LA Times, CNN has an interesting article about a not [...]

Recently, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have agreed to co-sponsor legislation aimed at making the Chinese government revalue their currency, the yuan. A newsletter I subscribe to, Penny Sleuth, had an interesting article about the effects of this. Here is a bit about some effects that they think would happen: We believe tariffs benefit the [...]