German travel agency to offer nudist flight
USATODAY-German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.
Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German [...]

170,00 new donors for a 35% increase in one month! Not sure what Hillary raised in January.
NYT: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, matching his best three-month period last year, aides said Thursday.
The money positions Obama for the sweeping Feb. 5 primary contests, when 22 states will [...]

A Nader run would be pretty weak, in general. (Where is he on illegal immigration?) It would hurt Clinton some; but I don’t think it would scratch Obama.
Boston.com: Ralph Nader, the consumer activist whom many Democrats blame for costing them the White House in 2000, launched an exploratory committee website today.
The site asks “Which side [...]

Romney, McCain clash on conservative values
MSNBC-Republican Mitt Romney said John McCain used dirty tricks by suggesting shortly before the Florida primary that the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, as the two men squared off in a spirited debate Wednesday night.
Coming 24 hours after McCain defeated him in the [...]

Whoa. Too soon to say, but this is certainly positive news for Obama fans.
San Francisco Chronicle: On the Democratic side, the combined results of three nightly samplings of 400 different voters – for Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday – found Hillary Rodham Clinton at 36 percent, Obama at 31 percent and John Edwards at 12 percent.
But [...]

From Don B. Kates Jr.at the Independent Institute
Are this year’s U.S. presidential candidates avoiding the gun issue?
Last week, San Francisco’s First District Court of Appeal struck down that city’s two-year-old law that confiscated all handguns and rendered all other guns useless by banning ammunition sales. And on March 9 of last year, a federal court [...]

Is this why chicken hawk Rush hates McCain?

What do you think?
Politico-Rudy Giuliani’s distant third-place finish in Florida may put an end to his bid for president, and it seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on Sept. 11, 2001.
Giuliani’s national celebrity was based on his steady, comforting appearance in Americans’ living [...]

From the right…

And the left…
AP: Obama said, “It is time for new leadership that understands the way to win a debate with John McCain or any Republican who is nominated is not by nominating someone who agreed with him on voting for the war in Iraq or who agreed with him in voting to give [...]

From John Semmens at The Indepemdent Institute
With world crude oil prices hovering near $100 per barrel and prices at the gas pump exceeding $3 per gallon in most parts of the country, all the ingredients would seem to be in place for dramatic changes in our daily commuting patterns, with millions of Americans shifting from [...]

He’s apparently not going to endorse anyone. 40% of Edwards supporters said their second choice in the race is Clinton, while a 25% prefer Obama, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo poll conducted in late January.
Time: Why Edwards Never Caught On
John Edwards is nothing if not dogged. It’s a quality that made him rich, and won [...]

Romney wants to import fewer immigrants and instead have America’s freeloading seniors mow our lawns. Sounds good to me!! “Ugh, Grandma. You missed a spot over there.”
From CNN via C&L: Compassionate conservatism at it’s finest. Romney talking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about his economic ideas for the future of America.
Cooper: If you were president, what [...]

This is from an e-mail which was just too good to ignore. Lots of important info here. Things the “upper crust” with their “analysis” tend to gloss over with their “professional views”. This issue is one of many where the general public is being misguided by the so called “experts”.
Illegal Aliens Cause [...]

McCain sweeps the Hispanic vote in Florida
HC-In the first Republican test of strength among Latino voters, Arizona Sen. John McCain won by a landslide.
Early exit polls cited by Fox News found that McCain was taking 50 percent of the Hispanic vote. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who campaigned long and hard in Miami’s Little [...]

It’s the income inequality, stupid. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains why the proposed stimulus package is way off the mark.
Reich: …Most consumers are at the end of their ropes and can’t buy more. Real incomes are no higher than they were in 2000, while food and energy and health care costs are all [...]