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Blogger Nominates Two for Inaugural Space Flight

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth. That news, the lead in an Associated Press article linked on Drudge Report this morning, prompted me to want to nominate two individuals to occupy [...]

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HUCK’S OUT!

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Fox News just broke the news that Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will announce — as in tonight! — his withdrawal from the 2008 race now that rival John McCain appears to have secured enough delegates to win the party’s nomination. Britt Hume also mentioned that the former Arkansas governor has already called McCain [...]

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Dobson to Endorse Mike Huckabee

February 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Associated Press and Wall Street Journal are reporting this evening that Dr. James Dobson, evangelical leader and founder of Focus on the Family, has endorsed Republican Mike Huckabee in his bid to become president of the United States. The endorsement comes almost six months after I predicted it in a post, Laura, Mike [...]

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Close Races Shape 2008 Presidential Races

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Close presidential races are shaping the future of both the Democrat and Republican parties in 2008.
In a post at Captain’s Quarters this morning, Ed Morrissey reports the Delegate Math Looks Bad For Democrats:

Democrats have 4,049 delegate that will attend the convention, but 796 of these are superdelegates. That leaves 3,253 elected delegates, of which 1,291 [...]

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Believe It or Not, I Voted for Mitt Romney

February 5th, 2008 · 8 Comments

After witnessing two of Mitt Romney’s Republican Party rivals form an unsettling political alliance in the hills of West Virginia today, I decided to cast my primary vote for the only presidential candidate I believe I can trust.
Though Romney and I disagree on fundamentals of faith and the former Massachusetts governor has been the subject [...]

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