My wife goes apoplectic when the subject of voting integrity comes up.  How in the f'ing world, she wonders loudly, can the Democrats and the media simply continue to ignore such a serious problem with the fundamental activity on which our democracy rests? Well, ABC News finally reports that Electronic voting machines could skew elections.  Better late than never, right?  But, as usual, the report deals only with a piece--though obviously a crucial piece--of the overall problem.

This was publicly reported in England back in 2004, but didn't get nearly as much play here as it did there.  For the record, here's the link to The Guardian story on the connection between Prescott Bush and companies run by, and apparently for, the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s.

You have to wonder, at times, about Rush Lardbutt and his inability to focus on reality at times...

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.

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