I gave $25 to Ron Paul Monday because I couldn't resist being part of the largest grass-roots fundraising day in the history of American politics. The libertarian Republican raised $4.2 million from 37,000 contributors, according to a final tally provided to USA Today, from an effort that wasn't even organized by the campaign.

I caught the last 90 minutes of the Democratic presidential debate at Drexel University Tuesday night, which told me that Hillary Clinton thinks she can win the nomination without telling anyone what she'll do if elected.

Everyone claims to want less dirt, less big money, and less exaggeration in political campaigns, but how do you accomplish that when so much of a political campaign these days consists of the efforts of third party interest groups? I don't know, and apparently neither does New Jersey.

Three former Oral Roberts University professors filed a lawsuit against the school and four administrators on Oct. 2. They claim wrongful termination and wrongful causing of one professor's resignation. This seemingly ordinary lawsuit is shining a very harsh light on ORU (and Oral Roberts Ministries) because of the reason the professors say they were fired.

An Air America Radio host's on-air claim that fellow host Randi Rhodes was mugged has been denied by the New York Police Department and the network. "There is absolutely no report filed," said a source at the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information office who asked not to be quoted by name. "There was no mugging."

I've never been a fan of Carlson, so take this for what it's worth. The man just had one of the worst weeks as a talk show host that I've ever had the misfortune to witness (until I couldn't stand any more and turned it off).

I can't bring myself to dive into the Rush Limbaugh nonsense about "phony troops." But I do find it verrry interesting that Limbaugh ("Pilonidal Pete"--see here if you don't get the reference) put this on his narcissistic collection of his own quotes today:

Could this become a habit for the more religious among the far far right in good old America? Seems that Dobson, Perkins, at al are once again making noise about running their own candidate for the presidency, since the Republicans so far have not knuckled under to their demands for a good old candidate of sufficient religious froth.

The head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, William Poole, had a message for the folks at the European Economics & Financial Centre Conference in London on Sept. 6, 2007: not only has the US economy "clearly generated jobs to replace those lost because of imports," but the U.S. economy is at "full employment." And "Rather than being a sign of a weakening economy, the recent slowdown in the rate of job creation is almost certainly related to a slowing of labor force growth as the baby-boom generation reaches retirement age."

Pick the government snooping program that bothers you most: (a) warrantless surveillance; (b) Patriot Act sneak peeks at your reading habits; (c) the collection and coordination of vast amounts of personal data on travelers; (d) all the above, because the info obtained is in all likelihood being aggregated and coordinated so that there is little if any difference between the programs.

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