Via the UK’s In the News:
Boy George, Sir Cliff Richard and Russell Watson are among a selection of British musicians planning to release a song to raise money for Asian tsunami disaster aid effort.
Yikes. Quick, let’s pledge enough money to get them not to do this.
Via The Wichita Eagle:
A handful of House Democrats plan a long-shot effort to snarl President Bush’s formal re-election by preventing Congress from counting Ohio’s pivotal votes when lawmakers tally the electoral vote on Thursday.
No one expects the action to undo Bush’s victory. Instead, it seems likely to do little more than call attention to Election Day voting irregularities, a growing frustration for Democrats who blamed similar problems in Florida for Bush’s 2000 defeat of Democrat Al Gore.
Did someone forget to tell these guys that their party lost by 3,000,000 votes? Who didn’t get the memo?
Petty and pathetic.
Specter elected chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee.
Following a drawn-out political melodrama triggered by his own intemperate remarks, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was elected chairman Tuesday of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. The vote was 10-0 among fellow Republicans on the panel.
Watch him like a hawk.
Via Newsday:
Former Clinton aide Harold Ickes and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk let top Democrats know Tuesday that they won’t be running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Ickes, a longtime Democratic activist, let party members know he would not be running.
“I just decided I probably did not have enough of the attributes (a chairman needs) to do the party justice,” Ickes said in an interview.
OK, that means Dean is practically a shoe in for the job. I think that’s the real reason Ickes got out. Besides, he wants to be clear of the implosion that will occur when Dean and the Deaniacs run the party into the ground. When that happens, Ickes will be available to ride Hillary’s rescue train ‘o love into the 2008 campaign.
Stop cutting your toenails.
BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.
How it all happened. Making great use of the web, the BBC provides a slide-show/animation of the tsunami disaster. (h/t Ace)
BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.
Arthur Chrenkoff has a complete update.
Via the BBC:
The recent Pew/American Life Project survey says…
Hopefully this isn’t just a rumor. Drudge says that al-Zarqawi has reportedly been arrested in Iraq.