Republicans and Democrats, take note. Yes, Virginia, there could be consquences in politics:Rep. Thomas Reynolds is trailing behind his Democratic opponent after he was connected to the scandal involving former GOP Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, according to a poll released Saturday. The poll, performed by Zogby International for The Buffalo News, showed businessman Jack Davis … [Read more...] about GOP’s Rep. Thomas Reynolds Could Be Casualty Of Foley Page Scandal (UPDATED)

AP via New York Times: RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- For the past five years, Sen. George Allen, has failed to tell Congress about stock options he got for his work as a director of a high-tech company. The Virginia Republican also asked the Army to help another business that gave him similar options... … [Read more...] about More Trouble for Sen. George Allen of VA

After all the attention he received throughout the conservative blogosphere, Isaac is far more positive now than he was just one month ago:A month ago, I was anxious and depressed. Today, I have an excellent lawyer and my financial worries are gone.Well, although he is close to solving his financial problems he can still use your help. From the 2500 dollars legal fees, he has … [Read more...] about Isaac Seeing Life In A More Positive Light

More Mark Foley. One former page talked to the LA Times about his 'sexual encounter' with Mark Foley. He admits that he was 21 years old when they had sex. "Yet the former page's exchanges with Foley offer a glimpse of possible predatory behavior by the congressman as he assessed male teenagers assigned as House errand-runners." … [Read more...] about More Foley

The Washington Post reports: Thousands of low-income children have been unable to enroll in Virginia's Medicaid program since July 1 because of new, tougher federal rules requiring proof of citizenship and identity, state officials said. Officials for the state program for the poor and disabled said as many as 10,000 eligible children are living without health care largely … [Read more...] about Medicaid, Not All Is Swell

Karen Tumulty wrote an in-your-face-article for Time: Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may well have been written last week in the same medium that incubated it: talk radio. On … [Read more...] about A Time To Renew

I admit: sometimes it takes me a long while to pick something up. At times... I'm quite slow. Anyway, it has now occured to me that we have a lot of commenters here at The Moderate Voice who show a, as far as I can tell, above-average interest in science. Scientific methods, how science is being used in politics these days, what they think the role of science should be in the … [Read more...] about Politics And Science

CNN: The end of a revolution (a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story)After controlling both houses of Congress for most of President Bush's time in office, the GOP's governing record has dismayed those who fantasized about what Newt Gingrich and his band of rebels might accomplish. The current crisis arrived with a sex scandal that muddied one of the party's few … [Read more...] about Fantastic TIME Magazine Cover

There has been an international outcry at the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist, who worked at the bi-weekly liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta. The deputy editor of the publication was quoted as saying he believed the murder was linked to her work. "The mother of two had received death threats before, but it was thought her gender and high profile might spare … [Read more...] about Anna Politkovskaya: Assassination of a Fearless Journalist

TMV NOTE: This post ran yesterday and generated a lot of comments. Due to its subject matter, we're running it again on today's blog and it is presented here out of chronological order. Newer posts are underneath it, so please keep scrolling after you read it. For a while now I, being Dutch, have been amazed by the emptiness of American politics. To me, it seems as if most … [Read more...] about American Politics: Ruled By ‘Emptiness’

Keep checking back for posts by our cobloggers. My connection here remains quite poor, with each post requiring four or even five reconnections due to the wireless service here (dial up does not work at this hotel). One other problem. When we do a post sometimes we spot a typo and immediately fix it. Here, there is a longer lag since we are frequently disconnected and have to … [Read more...] about TMV’s Own Posts Very Limited Today

North Korea continues to grow as a source for international concern amid reports of shots fired along the DMZ and its announcement that it plans to conduct a nuclear weapons test despite warnings from the United States and the international community. The big breaking news story was about shots fired across the DMZ. The AP:Shots were fired yesterday along the heavily armed no … [Read more...] about DMZ Shots Fired And Nuclear Test Plans Heighten North Korea Crisis

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz:Bush on Foley: 'We Must Crack Down on Illegal Immigration' President Attempts to Change Terms of Debate In an attempt to change the terms of the debate over the Mark Foley scandal, President George W. Bush said today that the Foley matter "only reaffirms my belief that we must crack down on illegal immigration." Mr. … [Read more...] about This Just In!

The New York Times reports that US Secretary of Defense has decided to make life more easy for the US Army: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is allowing the Army to approach White House budget officials by itself to argue for substantial increases in resources, a significant divergence from initial plans by Mr. Rumsfeld and his inner circle to cut the Army to pay for new … [Read more...] about Army Allowed To Approach WH Budget Officials By Itself

Baseball legend Buck O'Neil died earlier today. He was 94 years old. Buck O’Neil, a star first baseman and manager in the Negro leagues and a pioneering scout and coach in the major leagues who devoted the final decade of his life to chronicling the lost world of black baseball, died last night in Kansas City, Mo. He was 94. Bob Kendrick, marketing director for the Negro … [Read more...] about Buck O’Neil Dies At Age 94

It's more than just the controversy involving former Rep. Mark Foley, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and the salacious emails. It's much more profound. … [Read more...] about The Problem Facing The GOP In 2006

A new Newsweek poll has the worst news yet for President George Bush and the Republicans: The GOP is losing its status as the undisputed party of faith, and an increasing number of Americans want to see the Democrats take over Congress:Come hell or high water-ran the conventional wisdom-Republicans could rely on two issues to win elections: the war on terror and values. Then … [Read more...] about New Newsweek Poll Shows “Meltdown” For Bush And GOP

We've run some posts about Citizen Smash being called back to active duty. He was assigned to Washington (he first gained fame doing his blog during the early part of the Iraq war from the scene). Now "The Indepundit" is heading back to his home in California. He is seeing some unusual sights. And stopped to visit someone who has a blog that has a reader or two. … [Read more...] about Heading Home From Active Duty

This sounds like more bad news for House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the Republican party that he seems to be helping drag down in the polls:House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before the speaker said aides in his office took any action, a current congressional staff member … [Read more...] about Staffer Says Hastert’s Office Involved Earlier Than Originally Said (UPDATED)

The New York Times reports that Google is "in discussions to acquire YouTube for $1.6 billion, people involved in the talks said yesterday." YouTube has definately become one of the biggest success stories on the Internet the last year, even the last couple of years: YouTube is "has yet to celebrate its first anniversary or its first profit" but already Google is trying to buy … [Read more...] about Google Eyes On YouTube