While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.

Wow, a Willie Horton moment, except this time the guy being accused of screwing things up (Huckabee) is the one who is responsible for the release.

Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release - Politics on The Huffington Post

But I entertain an even darker suspicion. It is that the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again.

Yes, that's right, the king of the neo-cons thinks the CIA is now part of a left wing conspiracy to get W. And this is Rudy's #1 foreign policy guy.

Dark Suspicions about the NIE - Norman Podhoretz

In a stunning reversal of Bush administration conventional wisdom, a new assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies concludes Iran shelved its nuclear weapons program over four years ago.

"We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program," reads a declassified version of the National Intelligence Estimate key findings.

See? They have a nuclear program, therefore we need to bomb them!

Political Radar: NIE Report: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program Years Ago

The Local Government Investment Pool had $3.5 billion of withdrawals today alone, putting assets at $15 billion, said Coleman Stipanovich, executive director of the State Board of Administration, at a special meeting held to address the crisis. The board manages the fund along with other short-term investments and the state's $137 billion pension fund.

``If we don't do something quickly, we're not going to have an investment pool,'' Stipanovich said at the meeting, held at the state capitol in Tallahassee. The fund was the largest of its kind, managing $27 billion before this month's withdrawals.

Thus begins 1-800-RUN

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

The call to fire Comer came from Lizzette Reynolds, who previously worked in the U.S. Department of Education. She also served as deputy legislative director for Gov. George W. Bush. She joined the Texas Education Agency as the senior adviser on statewide initiatives in January.

Reynolds, who was out sick the day Comer forwarded the e-mail, received a copy from an unnamed source and forwarded it to Comer's bosses less than two hours after Comer sent it.

"This is highly inappropriate," Reynolds said in an e-mail to Comer's supervisors. "I believe this is an offense that calls for termination or, at the very least, reassignment of responsibilities.

"This is something that the State Board, the Governor's Office and members of the Legislature would be extremely upset to see because it assumes this is a subject that the agency supports."

The subject of the email is question? A local appearance by one of the major witnesses in the Dover intelligent design case, and author of "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse," a book highly critical of the intelligent design movement.

So, to recap, the head of science education in Texas was suspended with recommendation to fire because she was opposed to ID. The sheer audacity and stupidity of the "right" continues to astound me.

State science curriculum director resigns

"Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the 'electromagnetic force,' the 'weak nuclear force,' the 'strong nuclear force,' and so-called 'force of gravity,'" Burdett said. "And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus."

Ah The Onion...

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"I'm thinking about Ron Paul" as a running mate, Kucinich told a crowd of about 70 supporters at a house party here, one of numerous stops throughout New Hampshire over the Thanksgiving weekend. A Kucinich-Paul administration could bring people together "to balance the energies in this country," Kucinich said.

Ummmm... Not sure what to say about this one, but what the hell.

If Kucinich wins nomination, Ron Paul could be his veep - OPENERS - Ohio Politics Blog by The Plain Dealer

Iraq's leaders have asked for an enduring relationship with America, and we seek an enduring relationship with a democratic Iraq.

In other words, "We're not leaving now, we're not leaving next yer, we're not leaving fucking ever." I think this was pretty clearly the plan when Halliburton started building those "enduring bases."

There was no exit plan for Iraq because THERE WAS NEVER ANY INTENTION OF EXITING.

TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | White House Releases "Principles" for Permanent Iraqi Presence

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton trails five top Republican presidential contenders in general election match-ups, a drop in support from this summer, according to a poll released on Monday.

Funny how that "electability" problem keeps cropping up...

New poll shows Clinton trails top 2008 Republicans - Yahoo! News

Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

And that * thing rears its head yet again.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Barry Bonds -- chicagotribune.com