Daily Archives: February 12, 2004

January traffic report

I’ve gone and reclaimed the old Sitemeter counter I’d used on my Blogspot site. Had to reset it to zero and rebuild all my pages, and I’ll be taking a WAG as to my actual February numbers, and so on … Continue reading Continue reading

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Congressional race preview

Teen prodigy Stephen Yellin gives his view of the 2004 House races in Texas. He’s a bit more optimistic than I am, but it’s always nice to get an outside perspective. I will say this – if Ralph Hall actually … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Election 2004 | 2 Comments

How terribly strange to be 70

Today is Bill Russell’s 70th birthday. Six days ago, Hank Aaron turned 70. 1934 was obviously a pretty good year for producing sports legends. Other than that, I don’t really have a point here. Continue reading

Posted in National news | 2 Comments

Schilling and Atrios

Those of you who don’t read baseball-oriented blogs are probably unaware of a recent kerfuffle involving Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. Schilling, who’s always been an outspoken player, recently revealed that he has been a regular poster on a Red … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Other punditry | 2 Comments

Bill Burkett

Damn. Kevin Drum has an interview with Bill Burkett, the former National Guardsman who was recently quoted in the Dallas Morning News saying that then-Governor Bush’s chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, told the National Guard chief to get the Bush … Continue reading Continue reading

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Dean for Edwards

When I first stumped for John Edwards as the second half of a Kerry/YourNameHere ticket, I mentioned that I had a gut feeling that having Edwards on board would help Kerry woo back some Dean voters who are unenthusiastic about … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in The making of the President | 7 Comments

Lee Harvey was a friend of mine

The History Channel has asked three historians to review the credibility of a documentary that claims LBJ was behind the assassination of JFK. The History Channel aired the documentary, The Guilty Men, in November as one of several programs exploring … Continue reading Continue reading

Posted in Skepticism | 1 Comment