The Very Rich Hours of the Lambrights

…during the week of the Democratic Convention.  As a political junkie, I’ve been enjoying coverage even if I’m not spending much time just sitting and watching.  It’s more like background noise that I pay attand ention to when the whim strikes.  That means my observations will probably seem pretty fragmented and random.
Saw most of Michelle [...]

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It’s all over the web that Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold) is being sued by the state of Ohio over the performance of their electronic voting machines in the 2004 elections.  Apparently, a lot of votes were lost.  Premier’s official explanation is that McAfee Antivirus was installed on the computers and caused the [...]

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One of my pet peeves is the way that the media, particularly TV news, covers presidential elections.  Here’s the usual sequence:
1)  Candidate A makes some outrageous statement or runs an ad that is probably not accurate.
2)  The news programs spend hours debating why the candidate made that statement and how it’s likely to affect the [...]

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I try not to get too strident when making political comments here but I’m going to beg your indulgence today.  Two stories in the news got my attention, both of which have to with the Bush Administration.
Today, the President commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice. This is not a [...]

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A nice quote from the Democratic Leadership Council:
“Democrats must avoid the temptation to follow up the electoral repudiation of the Bush-Rove polarization strategy with their own version of the same thing. The 2006 results not only showed an energized Democratic base but a decisive victory among independent and moderate voters who want real-world results from [...]

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Hubris by Michael Isikoff and David Corn is the latest book examining the war in Iraq. Written by a pair of journalists from Newsweek and The Nation (respectively), the book focuses on the process by which the Bush administration decided to go to war with Iraq and sold the nation on the idea. [...]

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It’s been a busy week and I didn’t have much luck finding time to post, so here’s the highlights.
Last Sunday, 11-5, was Roger and Mona’s  40th wedding anniversary.  For the uninitiated, that’s Nicole’s folks.    Anyway, the whole family got together and had a nice lunch at the Hubbell House in Mantorville.  All the [...]

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