Did John McCain Lose Arizona?
by Denis Campbell
While Maricopa County (Phoenix) Judge Edward O. Burke agreed with the state’s Libertarian Party that county elections director, Karen Osborne, did not follow election law, ensure ballot integrity and provide an unbroken custody chain, he ruled against them saying, “in a county the size the size of Maricopa, perfect compliance with the statutory electoral [...]
Featured Video
Election night, early on, watch the evil eye as the pundits tried to inject tension, then laughter. This was pretty much our reaction here @ live blog central during the night...
Features
Throw Joe Under the Bus»
By Denis Campbell
Is it payback time? For 2-weeks we’ve watched the Democratic Party leadership shamelessly threaten while pandering to Senator Joe (Judas) Lieberman in the slim hope he will do the honourable thing and accept his punishment and loss of Chairmanship for overtly supporting John McCain. In return he will help them make up a [...]
Bloomberg Sues The Fed For Disclosure»
by Charley James
Lost in the wake of Henry Paulson’s announcement Wednesday that Treasury is “changing direction” in how it doles out money in the bank rescue plan is a little-noticed lawsuit filed last Friday by Bloomberg LP, the business news wire service. It is suing the Federal Reserve Board’s governors for public records that would [...]
Bush’s Regulation Blizzard Clock Stopped»
by Denis Campbell
Just when George Bush thought he could sneak it through, there is growing support in Congress for an obscure piece of legislation that could reverse the Bush Administration’s midnight regulation rush — even ones already in effect. W’s team wants to finalize energy and environmental regulations by November so Barack Obama can’t undo [...]
Let Get Ready to Ruummbblleee!»
By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]
A Sucker Born Every Minute»
by Denis Campbell
From $140 billion dollars in extra tax breaks on top of $700 billion dollars used for dividends and bonuses and buying up other banks from Treasury Czar Paulson to his big banking buddies, to a litany of executive order dodgy moves, we will indeed be in very bad shape come 20 January 2009 [...]
Obama’s Best Practices»
Lessons Learned from an Historic Campaign (Part One)
By Denis Campbell
In the early stages, Barack Obama’s Presidential quest was called quixotic at best and at worst political suicide. Here was a man barely in the US Senate who had just two years prior suffered a bruising defeat for an open Congressional seat and here he was [...]
Yes We Did»
After a most amazing 22-month campaign, the 47-year old African American Junior Senator from Illinois, Barack H. Obama was elected 44th President of the United States by what will eventually be a landslide number of electoral and popular votes.
Shortly after 4:00 GMT, the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii pushed him over the magic [...]
Welcome to Live Election Result Blogging»
We’ll be here ’til it’s over with latest election news and results. Simply click on the title above to be taken to the interior website page which we will update every five minutes or so. All times are US EST.
11:00 Barack Obama is President Elect of the United States
California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii.
10:59 Here we [...]
Politics
Bush’s Blanket Pardon For War And Torture?»
by Charley James
As if we don’t have enough to worry about the shenanigans Bush & Co. might try pulling in their last 60-plus days in office, now comes whispered reports from Washington that Dubya is considering issuing a “blanket pardon” for everyone involved in anything illegal in the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and – more [...]
Business
Toxic Spill on Aisle 3, Bring Chlorine»
By Denis Campbell
It was a great election (duh-dum) wasn’t it? A new Democratic President (duh-dum), bigger majorities in the House and Senate (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh… duhdadeeee) and nothing can go wrong… AEEIIIIIII!!!!! Apologies to John Williams, Peter Benchley and the cast of Jaws, what the heck is going on in the Senate?!?
OK, it was cute that both [...]
Reflections
Republican KoolAid Drinking»
By Denis Campbell
The lunatic right fringe of an imploded party seems to be doing all the talking lately. Is anyone listening? Some snippets already working across the Web.
Obama the 1-termer
The guy is 69-days away from Inauguration and already the Right is calling him a 1-term President.
Barone Blunders Badly
A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos [...]
Politics Too
It Seems Sarah Palin Will Be on the National Scene for a While»
by Sharon Kyle
Sarah Palin draws the media like a magnet. Whether we like it or not, judging from the amount of press she got this week, it appears she’ll remain on the national scene for as long as America and the rest of the world continue to tune in or click, searching for “Sarah Palin”-related [...]
Business Issues
An Odd Couple Give Obama and Detroit Advice»
By Denis Campbell
NBA bad boy owner Mark Cuban, in trouble for a stupid insider stock trade charge, chided Obama for not putting a single entrepreneur on his economic team and 60’s rocker guitarist Neil Young lectured Detroit’s automakers on survival (fire management/start over). Like the kid looking for a pony in a room full of [...]
Media
Henry Paulson Channelling Chairman Mao?»
by Charley James
One of Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s “sayings” immortalized in his Little Red Book deals with stealth in politics and war. “Make a noise in the east,” the Great Helmsman wrote, “and strike in the west.”
On Monday afternoon, we realised that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson must be channelling Chairman Mao. While everyone on the [...]
Innovators
Is Anything An “Experience” When Everything Is?»
by Charley James
Maybe it’s because after countless pre-election late nights I slept in this weekend and missed the announcement, but when did everything become an “experience?”
I read something the other day about the growing length and complexity of restaurant menus. A half dozen chefs used “dining experience” to describe what, to me, always has been [...]
Book Reviews
In Justice - Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration»
by David Iglesias
Publisher’s synopsis – “The Bush administration’s drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration’s other political debacles. David Iglesias was [...]
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