A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that [Stephen] Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office.
The result is similar when Fred Thompson […]

A new poll looks at the support for Stephen Colbert’s faux presidential campaign among Democrats and Republicans:
Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, recently completed a national poll of 1,000 likely 2008 voters that included Colbert’s name in both the GOP and Democratic primaries. (He has announced his plans to run in both the Democratic […]

PolitiFact.com from the St. Petersburg Times examines politician’s statements and ranks them on their truth-o-meter. Here’s a great Huckabee quote from the last Republican debate in Orlando that got a “Pants on fire!” rating from PolitiFact.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were “brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.”
Politifact’s conclusion?
We’d […]

What You Missed If You Didn’t Read Today’s NYTimes

No need to worry about poor and elderly minorities being disenfranchised by new Voter ID laws. They’re disenfranchised by death before it becomes a problem, according to the Bush administration’s civil rights czar.
The Marines get fashion conscious.
The Maine Middle School Contraceptive Controversy: “It brings home the fact […]

That’s one harsh lesson Obama recently learned:
In an interview on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Cheney said that in the course of researching her husband’s genealogy for her new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” she discovered that [Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama] share an ancestor eight generations ago.
. . .
Obama’s family […]

That’s right, folks, it’s time to get our presidential wannabes to discuss global warming.
And what can you do to save the environment?Here’s ten out of 50 suggestions from JustGive.org:
1. Recycle everything: newspapers, bottles and cans, aluminum foil, etc.
2. Don’t use electrical appliances when you can easily do by hand, such as opening cans.
3. Use cold […]

What You Missed If You Didn’t Read Today’s NYTimes

Black women in South Carolina are afraid to vote for Barack Obama because he might be assassinated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Oh, what a character.We have this: “We cannot build Russia’s future by tying its many millions of citizens to just one person or group of people,” he […]

Oh, god, yes!
Appearing on Larry King’s CNN show Thursday night, Stephen Colbert was accused by the host of using the publication of his new book as a platform to run for president. Colbert happily confirmed this, saying that he would likely seek the nomination from both parties.
When King said this was a “cop out,” Colbert, […]

AL GORE WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Right-wingers must be biting the heads off their own children this morning.

Now, will the hopes that Gore begin a presidential campaign come true?