The complaints from those denied the right to vote during the 2000 Florida presidential election were anything but isolated or episodic. Credible evidence shows many Floridians were denied the right to vote. Analysis of the testimony and evidence gathered by the Commission show that these denials fell most squarely on persons of color.

The Brad Blog has the transcript of a major broadcast network  interview, which was never aired, with former U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) chair Rev. DeForest Soaries.

How successful was the Pentagon policy of moving additional American troops  to Baghdad to quell the violence?

You think the U.S., or the west generally, has a corner on puff news?  From Pravda:

How to end the war in Iraq? I think President Bush's daughters and ... the congressmen's sons and daughters should all to go to Iraq and maybe it would bring all our young people back home where they belong.

The White House made a big splash about the formation of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan group headed by James Baker, which is charged with advising the President about future Iraq policies.  Asked today whether that meant the prez is considering a change in "strategy," Tony Snow's response resembled a linguistic pretzel as he tried to reconcile the traditional mantra that the President had no intention of changing "strategy," with the Baker group's mission:

Most thinking people I know get a physical reaction to the sight and sound of our esteemed Vice President. In a speech in Indiana today, he certainly demonstrated one reason for the instinctual alarm: that is one arrogant and self-righteous son-of-a-gun.

What this comes down to is that if you have problems with identity theft, actual or potential, all the big phone companies will assist you to reasonable lengths, politely and quickly. All but one that is, Cingular. Cingular will do everything in its power not to assist, up to and including lying to you. Avoid Cingular if you are at all worried about your safety, they are far worse than having no use, it is actively antagonistic. Time to call T-Mobile. Can anyone recommend a good plan?

Thanks to Federal Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, the world is one large step closer to learning exacty who the incredibly secretive Dick Cheney has been meeting with.

She was not, uh, in, she, I, I don't, uh you know, like I said, uh, she might have been tipsy. Uh, she didn't walk in a straight line. That's for sure. Cause she, you know, bump into ya when you're walking along and, you know, I didn't think anything of that. And just helping this lady, and that was all.

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