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With wins over Drexel, La Salle, Cornell and now Princeton, Lafayette Basketball is off to its best start in 30 years (8-1 so far). I got to be at the first round of the NCAA tournament when Lafayette got in in 1998 (their first trip in 50 years, the second longest drought in Division I…

Kos has the link to the latest Newsweek poll (from 12/18-19, numbers in parentheses are from 12/11-12): Dean 26 (24)Don’t Know 20 (14)Clark 15 (12)Lieberman 7 (12)Sharpton 7 (5)Kerry 6 (5)Gephardt 5 (10)Edwards 5 (5)Braun 1 (3)Kucinich 1 (2) Others are reporting that Clark may be emerging as the anti-Dean. Clark certainly isn’t pulling punches,…

Operation Hero Miles – Official Website Many soldiers on R&R leave must purchase high-priced last minute airfares to connect to their hometowns once their military flights land at the airports in Baltimore, Dallas or Atlanta. Soldiers on “Emergency Leave” must still pay the full cost of their domestic travel when they are rushed home for…

I’m making this list as much for my own benefit (as I start implementing all of this), but there are a number of changes coming to tins (what is tins? More on that in a minute): I’ll be folding my Howard Dean blog into this one. My original intent with the separate blog was to…

I’ve upgraded this site to Movable Type 2.65, which addresses a couple vulnerabilities discovered in Movable Type. If you’re running MT, this is a simple but necessary upgrade. Shouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes. If you notice anything funky, let me know!

Eric Alterman announces he’s through with politicians, but goes on to highlight a key issue for 2004: whether the election will be won among the party faithful or in a battle for the middle. In a dinner last month with bloggers Jonas, Phil and Josh, I mentioned that the question of electability boiled down to…

Hard for me to believe, but this marks the two year anniversary of my first blog post. Starting a blog was a direct result of a phone conversation with John Robb, and in the past two years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some remarkable people. To those who continue to read, comment and share,…

Just occurred to me that I haven’t announced here that my wife and I are hosting a house party for Howard Dean on December 30, in Naperville, Illinois. Details are here. We’re expecting 40 – 50 people, and have already exceeded our goal (a couple contributions haven’t registered online yet, but we’re over the $1311…

I’m trying out w.bloggar as a posting interface to this blog. It seems to be quite effective. Anyone else have experience using it in lieu of posting directly through your blog’s interface? Any comments to share?

A political reporter for a major national publication is writing a story about the Dean/McGovern comparison, and is trying to find current Dean supporters whose parents were McGovern supporters in 1972. If you fit this description and would like to speak with the reporter, e-mail me privately. And be sure to read my take from…