Political Bunker

Freakazoids!

Out of 899 students, McCain finishes almost last! That is pitiful!

h/t Jed

Keith Rulez!

Oh, thank you great and mighty war machine!

CommonDreams - “Because of the war, the national deficit is $2 trillion higher,” Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, told me. “At 5 percent interest, that’s $100 billion a year, year after year after year - forever!”

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The Guardian - The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools - after all, it has no truth value. But everything that takes place on the curriculum's time will have to be secular.

Obama Texas State Director Adrian Saenz issued a statement on the projected primary and caucus results that show Senator Obama won more Texas delegates than Senator Clinton.

USA Today - Pfc. Aaron Kincaid, 25, had been joking with buddies just before their Humvee rolled over the bomb. His wife, Rachel, later learned that the blast blew Kincaid, a father of two from outside Atlanta, through the Humvee's metal roof.

I think that title says it all.

AlterNet - James Dobson, the influential founder of the conservative, evangelical advocacy group Focus on the Family, has delivered a blow to John McCain — by saying he won’t vote for him if he’s the Republican presidential nominee.

“I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are … I cannot, and will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

One of my favorite places to visit on the web is the Bad Astronomy Blog. This site is the work of astronomer extraordinaire Phil Plaitt and his posts are endlessly entertaining. Today, however, his wife makes a guest blog entry about an observation she has made in the way the media treat Senator Clinton that really caught my eye...