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Former House Majority Leader (and "Dancing With The Stars" contestant) Tom DeLay (R-Texas) is found guilty by a jury. His trial, for different charges, has been going on for about four years now. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/us/politics/25delay.html?_r=1 Jurors deliberated for 19 hours...

This is probably nothing. But it's worth wondering about. Like, "what exactly was that thing?" Mystery of the California contrail | World news | guardian.co.uk The US defence department today said it was trying to determine whether a missile was launched yesterday off the coast of southern...

It's big news, of course, because whenever a party loses, it's customary for the leader to retire. The last House Speaker who stayed on after a loss was Democrat Sam Rayburn, whose party lost 55 seats in 1946, but then won the majority again in 1948. Anyway here's the story on Pelosi. In the...

It's tomorrow. There's going to be a live webcast. I can post a link when it's up. But it's going to begin at 12 pm EDT tomorrow. Here's some more info. Rally to Restore Sanity If anyone is going to make it to DC this weekend, you've picked a good time. Halloween weekend is a crazy time. It's...

Feds arrest N.Va. man in D.C. Metro bomb plot Federal law enforcement authorities have arrested a Northern Virginia man in connection with an alleged plot to carry out a series of terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system, according to a federal indictment. This...

Some predictions for the US Senate races, if I were put on the spot and forced to make them. It's nine days before Election Day, so it's a good time to be making them. There's only 37 total, and most of them are safe. How hard could it be, right? CT: Richard Blumenthal (D) vs. Linda McMahon...

Everyone, I'd like you to meet Jeremy McMillan, candidate for Governor of New York. YouTube - The Rent Is Too Damn High Party's Jimmy McMillan at the NY Governor Debate

Yep. Some Americans have already voted in the election via early voting, even though Election Day itself is Nov. 2. An entire list of states and DC have early voting, but some are not as forthcoming as others about data from their early voting. One state that is pretty forthcoming is Nevada...

I suggest this... YouTube - THE EXORCIST - House and Stairs - Washington D.C. July 13, 2009 and this... YouTube - A Modern Day Visit to THE EVIL DEAD CABIN Scary, huh? Oh, Happy early Halloween, by the way.

Poll closing times are as follows. 5:00AM EDT - Northern Marianas 6:00AM EDT- Guam 6:00PM EDT - Indiana (Eastern time zone) and Kentucky (Eastern time zone) 7:00PM EDT - Indiana (Central time zone), Kentucky (Central time zone), Florida (Eastern time zone), Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont...

It's true. Just in one single quarter. You remember the stimulus package, AKA the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It was one of the first bills that Obama signed into law back in Feb. 2009. Throughout most of calendar year 2009, the act produced primarily tax cuts, while most...

Imminent, as in maybe over the next week or so. For review, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is the federal law (signed in the 90s) that allows gay people to serve in the US military as long as they don't let anyone know that they are gay. Source: "Don't Ask" Repeal Deal May be Imminent - Political...

I hope this thread will provide some well-rounded, easily verifiable facts (none of that "He's a secret Muslim from Kenya" crap). I'll try to keep it updated. Good thing Obama did recently: In signing the health care reform bill into law, he expanded the Nurse-Family Partnership, a government...

This is a kind of thread that I've participated in in other forums, and it's usually really fun, especially to those interested in politics. It's an election results thread where someone explains the races that is happening and then posts links to the official sources for the results. It's kind...

I was reading through some medical journals on the topic of overweight/pre-obese (a BMI of 25-30/kg) because I feel I need to lose a few pounds, and I came across some interesting findings. According to some recent stuides, weight loss can be neutral or even bad for your health. The following...

Everybody talks about the Tea Partiers and the right-wing activists. They're the ones that get all the attention. But the political left has activists too, and next Tuesday is a major primary day in the US. There's a very real possibility that two sitting Democratic Senators (Arlen Specter in...

This: Panic attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ever had one? They're fun, right? It's for the people that want to have the feeling of dying when you're not actually dying.

Link: NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court - Supreme Court- msnbc.com The current US Solicitor General, 50 years old (young by Supreme Court standards), and the fourth woman ever on the Court.

Link: Sen. Bob Bennett Loses Re-Nomination At Utah GOP Convention | TPMDC You might be asking yourself, "So what? What does the fate of a single US Senator who I might never have heard of have to do with anything?" Sen. Bennett is a conservative, right Republican representing Utah, and he has...

The following comment from South Africa's police commissioner got my attention. He's testifying before Parliament about security during the FIFA World Cup. "Our famous prayer is that the Americans don't make the second round. They get eliminated and they go home." The Associated Press: Police...