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From A Buick: Can Anyone Say Elephant Bait?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:07:00 -0500

Shoalanda Speaks: What Tony Logan Did Next

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:50:00 -0500

Part II in our series on Tony Logan:

As April 2007 came to a close, Deputy Chief Tony Logan's situation in Florence unexpectedly reversed. Police Chief Rick Singleton announced that Tony's problems with the department had been resolved and the veteran officer from Tuscumbia [...]

The Progressive Electorate: If Birmingham Has A Mayoral Election Tomorrow Will Anyone Show?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:54:56 -0500

Tomorrow the city of Birmingham will host a mayoral election which my friend Wade Kwon describes as a hurry up mayoral election . Let's take it a step further and call it a hurry up and wait mayoral election as I'll be shocked if tomorrow night I'm not [...]

Politics Alabama: US To Approve UN Gun Treaty

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0500

I first heard about this one through a mailing from the NRA, and to be honest, thought it sounded fishy. This seemed a bit major, and I wondered how it could be true if nobody was talking about it. So I started an internet search. It took a while, because [...]

The Progressive Electorate: Capitol Hill News Open Thread

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:55:52 -0500

Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.

This is the most important news of the day... okay, maybe only some of [...]

Doc's Political Parlor: How to Gain 1700 Twitter Followers in One Day

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:02:57 -0500

Number of comments: 2

I don’t know either. Ask Judge Roy Moore, whose Twitter account (Moore2010) went from 2589 followers to 4270 followers in one day on October 8.

Kristopher at The World Around You has a take on that and looks at the various gubernatorial campaigns and their use of Twitter. [...]

Left In Alabama: Dear Dr. Reed: Who are "Bubba and Cooter, Big Man and June Bug?"

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:55:29 -0500

People in power hardly ever give it up gracefully, and Dr. Joe Reed is no exception. Reed, Associate Executive Secretary of the AEA and head of the Alabama Democratic Conference, has wielded great political power in his lifetime, but in recent years he's been on the losing side more and [...]

Doc's Political Parlor: A Note on the AG Race and the Alabama Line

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:45:38 -0500

Number of comments: 4

The Alabama Line has been updated with the Attorney General’s race.

The race to be the Republican nominee for Attorney General looks to be one of the most closely watched and hotly contested of the coming year. Given that, I thought readers might appreciate a [...]

Politics Alabama: Copenhagen Climate Summit: HUGE Carbon Footprint

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:30:00 -0500

Watching these environmental summits is always fun, because they're easy targets. It's entertaining to poke fun at people who are advocating dramatic curtailment of energy usage while at the same time using more energy than a decent-sized city!

In this case, so far the Copenhagen Summit will be using [...]

Bessemer Opinions: One eskimO and the Nostalgia Train

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:15:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
One eskimO, out of London, with lead singer Kristian Leontiou has a great sound, plus Kristian is pleasing to the eye. Listen, and watch this video.

And this is kind of neat, especially if you will be in the Big Apple during December. NYC Transit is [...]

Left In Alabama: U.S. Supreme Court to hear "Honest Services" cases

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:52:30 -0500

Honest services fraud: The law in in question has been on the books since 1988 (Title 18, s. 1346) and has been used in high-profile prosecutions like that of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Enron executive Jeff Skilling -- his is one of three [...]

The World Around You: Best Press Release of the Alabama Governor’s Race So Far

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:40:16 -0500

Number of comments: 1

This statement from the Davis campaign in response to the article by Joe L. Reed in the AEA Journal is about as good as it gets. Other campaigns should take notes on rebutting histrionics with substance.

Artur Davis: Joe Reed is Wrong on Race and Leadership, Again

Congressman Artur Davis [...]

Left In Alabama: Open Thread;Some of this, some of that

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:23:33 -0500

Hi there! You may not remember me, because my ten year old computer decided to play "On again Off again" over the past week or so. My television set, however, has been working, and yes! I saw Alabama walk all over the formerly invincible Tim Tebow on their way to [...]

The World Around You: Online Straw Poll Has Interesting Backer

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:21:56 -0500

Number of comments: 10

Now, I love doing polls on my site, but I know they are nowhere near an approximation of the real opinions of the population at large. Still, we pay attention to them. The latest poll to gain attention online is one at a site run by the Conservative Christians [...]

Flashpoint: E-mails didn’t skip critic Christy

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:01:24 -0500

Kudos to The Huntsville Times for putting Climategate on the front page in “State climatologist John Christy, a critic of global warming, mentioned in leaked ‘Climategate’ emails”.

It’s about time that the global warming fraud gets widespread notice. The data was manipulated to support the fraud and now we know that the [...]

Politics Alabama: Montgomery Officials: Spend More Money... PLEASE!

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500

It seems that Montgomery city and county officials are not satisfied with YOUR spending... city sales tax revenues are down 6% and Mayor Strange wants to end the year with sales tax revenue flat when compared to last year's.

Solution? YOU have to spend more money.
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Politics Alabama: Administrative: Holidays

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:30:00 -0500

I just wanted to drop this line because I know my blogging consistency hasn't been that great over the past couple of weeks. My in-laws arrived a few days before Thanksgiving and are headed out today, though, so it should improve a bit for a while. There may be another' [...]

Doc's Political Parlor: Daily Headlines, Monday, 12/7/2009

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:54:13 -0500

Birmingham News – Four mayors in four months: Like Detroit, Birmingham may need to reform succession rules

Birmingham News – Wrongful imprisonment leads to $2 million claim

Birmingham News – Alabama Education Association delegates back taxes

Birmingham News – Birmingham mayoral election: ‘Voter fatigue’ will [...]