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I think it’s safe to say they’re definitely not lining up behind Keyes. In today’s Pantagraph (from Bloomington-Normal) was this report chock full o’ good quotes about what Republicans are saying about their candidate: “I’ve got some people who are not real happy that he is from out of state,” said state Sen. Dan Rutherford,…

While catching up over at Texas Rainmaker, I found this thread a pretty compelling deconstruction of the traditional liberal vs. conservative argument on social programs. I’ll be gathering my own thoughts on this subject soon. But Jason’s original comments, coupled with the back and forth in his comments, is a good start.

Interesting… PoliticalWire reports that a former girlfriend of John Kerry’s has decided to take down her virtual scrapbook after receiving hundreds of hate e-mails from both Democrats and Republicans. Someone should explain the Google cache to her. Kinda makes you wonder what a Teresa blog would look like… Update: Google’s cache now shows the deleted…

I just got a heads-up that UserLand is beta-testing Atom 0.3 support for the Radio/Manila aggregator. This is a huge deal, because there are quite a few RNC feeds that are from Blogger sites, and they only have Atom feeds, and the authors don’t understand why we can’t process them. Now, hopefully, we can. […

Last week I noted that This is Rumor Control was reporting rumors of Iranian money and weapons finding their way into Iraq, an Iranian strategy to bloody the U.S. ahead of any U.S. invasion of Iran. Today, TiRC is confirming that story: The Interior Ministry said that it would release a videotape of the arms,…

Eric Zorn notes today that his blog experiment is one year old and reflects on what he’s learned. It’s a great write-up from an established journalist who’s not only glad he did it, he’s cutting out his Sunday column in the Chicago Tribune in part to spend more time on his blog. And in a…

By the way, since a few have asked: I’ve turned over maintenance of the Obama blog to the campaign; my job was to help get it off the ground. Now that Barack has an opponent (and what an opponent he is!), the campaign should start to use the blog as an integral part of its…

Too good to pass up: The feature I’d most like to see in any new social network: Import from some other social network. Get me out of the middle of re-re-re-re-confirming that I am so-and-so’s dear friend. These social networks in my experience continue to be all maintenance and no value. [ Joho the Blog…

Wow. Kudos to Bill O’Reilly for condemning the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (ahem) ad: “I believe Jim Rassmann when he says that Kerry saved his life by pulling him out of a Vietnam river while under fire. Rassmann is a former Green Beret, a former police officer and a long time registered Republican until…

This is great news, courtesy of This is Rumor Control: From The Command Post today comes some interesting news about the blending of blogging and politics in Iraq. … Now two popular Iraqi bloggers are stepping into the political arena. Ali Fadhil and Mohammed Fadhil, of Iraq the Model, have announced their candidacies for the…