A new poll suggests that women are now returning to their traditional fold -- in the Democratic party: The gender gap is now 25 years old and, according to recent polling, it is alive and well. A Democratic polling memo released yesterday found that women, who voted for President Bush last year in large numbers, have begun migrating back to their traditional home in the … [Read more...] about Women Leaving GOP For Democratic Party

Firefox has been catching on due one highly touted characteristic: it was sidely said to be much more secure to use than Internet Explorer — but that claim is now undermined by warnings about newly discovered Firefox flaws. The BBC reports:The Mozilla Foundation has said it is "working aggressively" to fix two flaws in its open source Firefox browser. The … [Read more...] about Firefox Not That Secure After All

Amid a spate of reports indicating high GOPers believe his nomination will pass, John Bolton's image received another knee in the stomach from a new report that a high State Department official had put restrictions on his speeches and testimony. This is yet one more indication that the Bolton nomination for U.S. Ambassador to the UN is flawed — the kind of nomination … [Read more...] about More John Bolton Nomination Problems Or Is It A Done Deal?

The punch line that's often used is "Do you want fries with that" - but perhaps it'll be revised for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as "Do you want to be drummed out of public life for that?" As if government hasn't already looked into every possible area where it can impose a tax, how about the good mayor's latest idea: a tax on fast food. (No joke.)An additional tax on … [Read more...] about Dumb Government Department: Detroit Mayor Proposes Fast Food Tax

The Real ID Act, attached as an amendment to another bill in the Senate, has potential far-ranging consequences and will likely result in effectively creating a national ID card. Unfortunately, this issue is flying under the radar and the bill has not even been debated on the Senate floor, despite the likely consequences that will arise if this bill becomes law. You can find … [Read more...] about National ID cards by default?

Here's yet another story that underlines why we must be nice to animals -- because they are beings that think and have emotions: A newborn baby abandoned in a Kenyan forest was saved by a stray dog who apparently carried her across a busy road and through a barbed wire fence to a shed where the infant was discovered nestled with a litter of puppies, witnesses said Monday. The … [Read more...] about Dog Is Abandoned Baby’s Best Friend

...at the Huffington Post. This is Arianna Huffington's addition to the blogworld — a combination news site blog...except the bloggers are famous such as CBS news legend Walter Cronkite, comedian-writer Larry David, David Frum, Michael Isakoff. You can't dismiss this as being all "liberal" because there are some centrists in the mix. The Huffington Post unlike blogs has … [Read more...] about Take A Peek…..

Keep checking back but we may be a bit late and erratic today on our posts due to some emergencies here. Wed throught Friday TMV will be on the road but we should also have some guest posts, plus some of TMV's own posts. Stay tuned...and check back. … [Read more...] about Light(er) Blogging Today

For those who want a bit of additional information regarding the recent history of judicial nominations, along with a bit of intemperate, immoderate, and possibly injudicious commentary, then go read this: For those complaining about the Democrats blocking 10 judicial nominations... Don't say you weren't warned. … [Read more...] about “Going nuclear”

Nowhere is impact of today's quickly changing, highly interactive world of communications more evident than in the news about the New York Times' panel's proposals to increase the paper's credibility with readers — proposals that seem impacted by weblogs' growing role and the growth of overall intensified media criticism in recent years. There was a moment in U.S. … [Read more...] about New York Times’ New Goal Is Bolstering Reader Confidence

When a new medium appears it's not unusual for the smug, old medium to need a hard lesson in the new reality — hence the saying "strike a happy medium" — and BOY is this evident in a piece by Adam Cohen in the New York Times. The piece is titled The Latest Rumbling in the Blogosphere: Questions About Ethics but it could perhaps more accurately be titled The Latest … [Read more...] about The Latest Rumbling In The Mainstream Media About Blogs And Bloggers

The Moderate Voice is off to L.A. today which means getting stuck in unmoderate traffic and being tied up all day. BUT you will see a few posts done by him before his departure and (hopefully) early in the morning at his hotel. But keep checking back: this site's highly talented and independent-minded Guest Bloggers will likely be offering you a few goodies throughout the day … [Read more...] about TMV On The Move

Basie's Jonathan Singer has another enterprising original interview on his site. This time it's with former GOP Washington state Senator Slade Gorton and he did it via email. As with any of Singer's interviews, it should be read in full. Here are a few highlights (we will limit it to the questions on the nuclear option. He also talks about Social Security reform). First, the … [Read more...] about Blogger’s Original Interview With former Sen. Slade Gorton

Hey, what's going on with this name business for babies? The new list is out for the most popular names for boys and girls in 2004 and we're shawked...just shawked...by this list compiled from Social Security card applications: GIRLS (names in order of popularity): Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia, Hannah, Abigail, Isabella, Ashley, Samantha, and Elizabeth. Whatever happened … [Read more...] about What’s Going On Dept: The 10 Most Popular Baby Names

...then I have two questions I need answered at Random Fate. … [Read more...] about If you are or have been a member of the US Armed Forces…

Pennywit follows up his original post with a response to Media Girl, who disagreed. Interestingly enough, they are both towards the left side of the political axis. More recommended reading if you are interested in the friction between blogging and the mainstream media. … [Read more...] about More on Blogging versus the Mainstream Media

Two 16-year-old Muslim girls are detained in New York and basically not allowed to talk to anyone. Only one five minute call from a mother a week. Then they're released, with no charges. Read the details here on The All Spin Zone which feels special attention is needed for this story. Read the entire post, but here's a small taste: My daughter turns 18 on Monday. As a parent, … [Read more...] about Not A Happy Situation For Any Mother…

The call to prayer in Muslim-ruled areas used to be "a joy" but has since turned into a "thunderous cacophony" as mosques adopted loudspeakers and put their muezzins (announcers) on the mic at the same time, leading to such intrusive noise it has some faithful calling it "daily torture to the ears." Some mosques even amplify the entire service, and "what should be an … [Read more...] about Moderation in the call to prayer

OxBlog's David Adesnik notes some particularly lacking reporting on an issue in my backyard (literally, at the school across the street): the new sex education curriculum in Montgomery County, Maryland. You might have heard local conservative parents were up in arms, but if you wanted to know what's actually in the curriculum, the Post's story isn't the best place. It does … [Read more...] about Sex education in Maryland gets reporters hot and steamy

The Sunday New York Times has a feature on Nick Denton and his Gawker Media blog "empire," a compliment he doesn't particularly like. For the man said to have taken blogging mainstream, Denton is pretty skeptical:"The hype comes from unemployed or partially employed marketing professionals and people who never made it as journalists wanting to believe," he said. "They want to … [Read more...] about Gawker makes a Denton society