It seems that Missouri wants to live up to its state nickname, by proposing to pass a requirement that prospective voters not merely show identification, but actual proof of citizenship not only to vote, but to register to vote. Obviously, much publicity has surrounded the Supreme Court’s recent upholding of Indiana’s stringent photo identification law for voters, a rule which excluded a dozen nuns from voting there, but the war-to-make-sure-that-the-majority-will-never-prevails continues. The beauty of the current initiative in Missouri is that, unlike the usual photo-i.d. initiatives that seem almost designed to favor “hard working WHITE Americans” (thanks for the expression...

No, not from John Edwards, or from Al Gore. Lieutenant Worf now endorses Barack Obama. Q’a pla!

The one metric on which Senator Clinton did not have to resort to Enron accounting in order to count herself ahead, superdelegates, has finally fallen, as Sen. Obama has picked up enough superdelegates to be ahead in that category as well. The Grey Lady piece cited notes that Sen. Clinton “regrets” making her remarks about she being stronger among less-educated White voters. The cynical among us would say she regrets it because it didn’t work, and only accelerated a pre-existing trend among super-delegates to bolt for Obama. I will give her the benefit of the doubt, and say that in...

And so, Navy Capt. Allred, currently chief kangaroo judge of the GTMO-based proceeding to dispense kangaroo justice at the military commission “trial” of former OBL motor pool member (and occasional chauffeur) Salim Hamdan, has decided to exclude Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann from any further role in the prosecution, on the basis for Col. Morris “Moe” Davis’s earlier testimony about the unseemly political pressure placed upon Davis as prosecutor by Hartmann. We’re not at all sure what this means either, as it is not clear what Hartmann’s role as advisor to “convening authority” Susan Crawford (a/k/a “Dick Cheney’s handmaiden”)...

First, happy birthday to TD Dad. And now… on with the opera. It seems that after the Koran desecration incidents and the forcefeeding of hunger striking detainees, the operation of GTMO was not exactly the most popular thing we were doing, in the eyes of the Pakistani public and media. Hence, the decision to post former GTMO commander Gen. Jay Hood to the embassy in Islamabad met with a great deal of derision and resistance, and, amidst that, has now been withdrawn by the U.S. government. You will recall that after allegations of a Koran being flushed down a toilet...

You know, I believe I have a certain familiarity with Hillary Clinton’s personality insofar as she is 15 years older than I, to the day… we Scorpios are often maniacally loyal (think about why she stays with Bill) and maniacally driven (I’ve completed 18 marathons, despite a complete lack of physical talent, and I continue to write my blog, week in, week out, six and a half years on, despite a lack of particular literary talent or tremendous popularity among blog-readers, while Sen. Clinton continues to run for President, despite an obvious lack of political talent or popularity among voters)....

In today’s last-big primaries left (187 pledged delegates up for grabs of the 404 remaining) day, Sen. Barack Obama scored a decisive victory (around 15 points or more) in North Carolina and Sen. Hillary Clinton holds around a 4 point lead in Indiana with around 85% of precincts in, as of 23:00 “fast time” (EDT). Insofar as North Carolina is significantly bigger than Indiana, and insofar as Sen. Obama’s margin of victory there will be greater than Sen. Clinton’s margin in Indiana, assuming she even wins it at all, Obama will improve on his around 150 pledged delegate (and 135...

America’s favorite gulag in the news. We’ll start with this Nicholas Kristof op-ed in the Grey Lady, comparing and contrasting the Zimbabwean legal system with the American legal black hole down GTMO way (hint: Zimbabwe comes off better). Note that Kristof devotes several paragraphs to our friend Candace and her client, Abdul al-Ghizzawi, whose plight we are quite familiar with. [We can best be summarize his plight as “he may be dying of chronic liver disease that the government would rather not treat because it has no idea how to treat so it’s all al-Ghizzawi’s fault; for fun, some members...

By 7 votes, Barack Obama has won the Guam caucuses, a crucial harbinger of popular opinion going into “Biggest of What’s Left” Tuesday in North Carolina and Indiana. Both Clinton and Obama pick up two delegates each, with Obama holding on to a projected 136 or so delegate lead. While the much vaunted “momentum” appears to have shifted away from him as a result of Sen. Clinton’s win in Pennsylvania, and of course, the media’s endless fascination with having an angry Black man available to show over and over again (even if he isn’t Sen. Obama himself, Rev. Wright is...

Now that the kids, tweens and teens of the world come to Daddy’s talking dog blog to see pictures of the same people they see on t.v. (and there doesn’t seem to be anyone at all interested in Daddy’s political ravings… what else is new…) it’s time, once again, to get all “controversial” and give you… the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photograph above, in which a 15 year old girl pretends to be a statue, and I ask… what is the big deal? [Some of you might also be asking what I’m doing up so late on a Saturday night…...