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Thursday, March 3, 2005
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10 Commandments
Opinions You Should Have: "Today God, responding to a comment made by Justice Antonin Scalia, noted He had given neither government nor Justice Scalia authority 'to do anything.'"
8:20:31 PM 
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State of the State
MakesMeRalph: "Native Texan Governor Bill Owens got an 'A' on his fiscal policies from the libertarian Cato Institute, proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are retards."
8:13:41 PM
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Denver November 2006 Election
Colorado Pols: "Congressman Mark Udall announced today that he will not run for governor in 2006. This isn't a huge surprise. The governor's race never seemed like something that really interested Udall. But formally getting out of the race could indicate that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is more likely to be in the running. Udall met with Hick last week, perhaps to see what the Mayor thought about the race, and he may have indicated his intentions to run."
MakesMeRalph: "I will get out ahead of him and suggest that he won't run for Senate in 2008 either."
8:01:40 PM
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2008 Presidential Election
Political Wire: "'Close friends say it is 50-50 whether Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who will be 72 years old in 2008, will run for the next Republican presidential nomination,' Robert Novak reports."
7:09:12 AM
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Social Security
Josh Marshall: "But this number stands out: Pew found that President Bush's approval rating on Social Security stands at 29%."
7:05:23 AM
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Iraqi Election
Juan Cole: "Still no government."
7:02:40 AM
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The coming crackdown on blogging
Help! Coyote Gulch is a political junkie and in that role he links to any and all candidates and campaigns that Denver voters help to decide. New rules are coming from the Federal Election Commission designed to enforce McCain-Feingold. From the article, "In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines."
As usual, when dealing with government, the devil is in the details, which are speculation at this point. Again from the article, "The real question is: Would a link to a candidate's page be a problem? If someone sets up a home page and links to their favorite politician, is that a contribution? This is a big deal, if someone has already contributed the legal maximum, or if they're at the disclosure threshold and additional expenditures have to be disclosed under federal law. Certainly a lot of bloggers are very much out front. Do we give bloggers the press exemption? If we don't give bloggers the press exemption, we have the question of, do we extend this to online-only journals like CNET?"
Well if the 'Ol Coyote can't link to candidates and campaigns he'll sure get a lot of time back to work around the homestead doing those chores Mrs. Gulch has requested.
Update: Mark Noonan: "First off, let me note that they'd have to arrest me and send me to jail before I'd stop blogging - and I will not, ever, accept the slightest restrictions on what I may write on a blog. I'll say whatever I wish, whenever I wish, about whomever I wish - and if the FEC comes knocking, I'll just consider myself a patriot doing his job." I think that's the first writing by Mr. Noona that I agree with. 
Update: Josh Marshall: "Is Bradley Smith on the level about the FEC and blogs?"
6:56:14 AM
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2004 Presidential Transition
Alan Greenspan is telling anyone that will listen that the Congress and the President must reduce the deficit spending that has been a hallmark of their performance that last 4 years, according to the Denver Post [March 3, 2005, "Fed chief says big deficits 'unsustainable,' urges cuts"]. From the article, "The assessment was Greenspan's gloomiest to date about the government's budget straits. Unless Congress takes major actions to reduce the deficits, preferably, he said, by deep spending cuts, annual shortfalls would make closing those gaps become even more difficult. Greenspan has made similar pleas in the past, but he spoke more urgently Wednesday and disagreed more adamantly with Republican lawmakers and President Bush, who have steadfastly refused to curb their new tax cuts. The Fed chairman emphasized that his own preference was to reduce deficits by cutting spending rather than raising taxes. But he said the "overriding principle" was to reduce the deficit, making compromise essential."
6:29:53 AM
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