Iowa Hiho!

[Neferti]

Thanks for posting a piccie of Ann Coulter. I had heard about her but had no idea what she looked like. Very attractive woman. No wonder the Leftards don't like her.

[Mattus]

You can always tell who the most successful conservatives are - they're the ones drawing the most flak from the Left.

By that logic Joseph Kony should be the republican nominee.

[AiA in Atlanta]

The Democrats are gleeful as Republicans keep putting foot in mouth over rape: one candidate for Senate said a woman can't get pregnant if the rape is "legitimate" and the other said pregnancies stemming from rape are "something that God intended to happen."

[Rorschach]

Some people are just stupid.
bet there are some in the Democrats too..

Used to read Coulter when she was younger... and better looking.

found her on the Drudge Report one day

http://www.drudgereport.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

lots of links to interesting stories and commentators.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Every state of the United States is represented in elections by electorates. These are not even numbered according to states. Some states have more electoral votes than others.

When election day comes around, the people go to their polling places and vote, but the count only determines how many electoral votes will represent that candidate for president.

For instance, currently California's 55 electoral votes are designated to the candidate winning the statewide popular vote. If Obama wins California (and he will) then all 55 electoral votes will represent him as president.

Same with all the other states, some states have more and some have less. For this reason it is actually possible for a candidate to win the popular vote nationwide, but lose the election.

An unlikely but possible scenario: it’s possible that the election could end up at an electoral college tie, 269 to 269. (270 are needed to win)

In that case, the POTUS gets chosen by the House of Representatives but each state gets just one vote. If that vote comes out a tie—25 to 25, Speaker of the House, John Boehner becomes POTUS.

It is weird but if that happens the VP gets picked by the Senate so if the House were Republican controlled and the Senate Democrat controlled, you’d probably actually end up with President Romney and his VP Joe Biden. Or in case of a 25-25 tie, President Boehner and his VP Joe Biden.

As far as I know, this has never happened before.

[annielaurie]

As far as I know, this has never happened before.

Yes, that's pretty bizarre, but could actually happen if it came to that.

[AiA in Atlanta]

The Gays Have Won

In 2004 and 2008, gay issues were front and center in the presidential debates: Are you for gay marriage? Are you for repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Is Hillary Clinton a lesbian? You couldn't get away from gay if you tried.

Well, we've now had four debates. Or, if you're a Democrat, three and a half. And no one has mentioned gays. No one is even talking about gay issues. No one is being asked to repeat the tired line "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman." And President Obama no longer would.

Something may change, but I think it's fair to say that the gay movement has already won. The issue has come and gone. The numbers are on the side of pro-gay and pro-gay marriage forces. Nothing has happened in states with gay marriage that anyone can point to and say, "See? We were right! Vermont got legal man-on-dog marriage now!"

In fact, it seems gays said, "We're here, we're queer, and most of America got used to it."

[AiA in Atlanta]

Rumors are that Romney lied in court to cheat the wife of a friend, and together with the buddy, they shared the profits.


Does it matter? Should it?

CANTON — Mitt Romney’s sworn testimony in a post-divorce lawsuit against Staples founder Tom Stemberg was unsealed on Thursday at Norfolk Probate and Family Court.

The suit was filed in 1990 by Stemberg’s ex-wife, Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, who sought to amend the couple’s financial agreement after Staples went public in 1989 and began trading at 10 times the stock value she had received in the divorce a year earlier. Romney, now the Republican nominee for president, testified during the lawsuit in June 1991; the nature of his testimony was not immediately clear on Thursday.

The Globe filed a motion on Oct. 15 to unseal Romney’s testimony, which was impounded along with all other case files from the Stembergs’ 10-year legal battle. Parties in the case also signed a confidentiality agreement that Gloria Allred, the attorney for Sullivan Stemberg, called “the most comprehensive gag order I have ever seen in my 36 years of practicing law.”

The Globe originally moved to amend the confidentiality agreement to allow parties in the case to speak publicly about Romney’s testimony but dropped the request on Thursday, when Stemberg — who had opposed the Globe’s request to unseal the testimony — rescinded his objection.

Allred argued vigorously for Sullivan Stemberg’s right to address Romney’s testimony publicly, saying Sullivan Stemberg was being denied her First Amendment Right.

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Click to contact candidates or elected officials about this issue. “Out of context, [the testimony] has no meaning for the public,” Allred said. “She can put it in context.”

The court ruled that because the Globe was no longer petitioning to modify the confidentiality order, and was satisfied by the release of Romney’s testimony, that Sullivan Stemberg would have to bring a separate motion to amend the order.

Allred indicated that she would do so and after the hearing accused the Globe of a “double cross” because the paper stopped its push to amend the confidentiality order.

“The Globe’s only interest all along, as should have been clear to all parties, was to obtain the transcript of a presidential candidate’s testimony,” Globe editor Martin Baron said in a statement. “We wanted to read it to see what was there, following standard practice in covering a major election, and we are pleased that the court recognized the great public interest in Governor Romney’s testimony. If it became possible to obtain the transcript without lifting a gag order, we had no reason to object. The gag order is a matter for others to litigate, if they wish to do so.”

In a hearing on Wednesday, Sullivan Stemberg had stated through her attorney that she had no objection to the Globe’s request to selectively vacate the impoundment order. Romney and Staples had taken no position because they had not reviewed the 21-year-old testimony, which had been purged from court records.

But Sullivan Stemberg had saved copies of the two-decade-old records. Allred produced two, inch-thick volumes of Romney’s testimony in court on Wednesday. Romney, Staples, and Stemberg requested and received a continuance to examine the documents, setting up Thursday’s hearing about whether they could be made public.

Later on Wednesday, Sullivan Stemberg had provided a third volume of testimony to Stemberg, Staples and Romney.

After reviewing the testimony, Stemberg on Thursday dropped his objection to the documents’ release.

At the time of his testimony, Romney was the owner and chief executive of Bain Capital, a private equity firm that invested $650,000 in Staples to help the office supply company open its first store in Brighton in 1986. In total, Bain Capital invested about $2.5 million in Staples and reaped a $13 million profit when the company went public in 1989. Romney also sat on the Staples board of directors, where he was “probably the most valuable member,” Stemberg told the Globe in a 1994 interview.

[Aussie]

Trumping Trump!

President Barack Obama has mocked Donald Trump in front of millions after the real estate mogul’s globally-lampooned effort to force him to release his university records.

Mr Obama ribbed the flamboyant mogul during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, after Mr Trump revived the right-wing conspiracy theory that alleges the president was not born in the United States.

"This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya," Mr Obama joked, after dashing to California to record the show as part of a 40-hour campaign sweep through eight states.

"We had constant run-ins on the soccer field, he wasn't very good and resented it," said Mr Obama, who was born in Hawaii the son of a white American mother and Kenyan father.

"When we finally moved to America, I thought it would be over," the president said, with a beaming grin, and admitted he had never actually met Mr Trump.

The flamboyant real estate tycoon and reality TV host had earlier whipped-up media attention by promising a "very, very big" announcement to be made on his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

But The Donald, as he is popularly known, made no real news whatsoever in his hotly awaited appearance.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Trumping Trump!

President Barack Obama has mocked Donald Trump in front of millions after the real estate mogul’s globally-lampooned effort to force him to release his university records.

Mr Obama ribbed the flamboyant mogul during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, after Mr Trump revived the right-wing conspiracy theory that alleges the president was not born in the United States.

"This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya," Mr Obama joked, after dashing to California to record the show as part of a 40-hour campaign sweep through eight states.

"We had constant run-ins on the soccer field, he wasn't very good and resented it," said Mr Obama, who was born in Hawaii the son of a white American mother and Kenyan father.

"When we finally moved to America, I thought it would be over," the president said, with a beaming grin, and admitted he had never actually met Mr Trump.

The flamboyant real estate tycoon and reality TV host had earlier whipped-up media attention by promising a "very, very big" announcement to be made on his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

But The Donald, as he is popularly known, made no real news whatsoever in his hotly awaited appearance.

Saw that clip. Obama isn't sweating Trump at all.