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Thursday, March 10, 2005
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Denver November 2006 Election
5280 Weblog: "Congressman Bob Beauprez has been on-again, off-again about whether he is going to run for Colorado governor in 2006. But, it's just about official now. A staffer has confirmed they have registered the website, BeauprezforGovernor.com It was registered on March 5."
7:23:21 PM 
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Draft
All this is pure speculation on the part of Matthew Gross. It's still true that no one wants a draft. He writes, "Here's my suggestion for the inevitable draft legislation Congress is going to have to grapple with: first priority for any draft would be the sons and daughters of 1) members of the Executive Branch above the rank of deputy under assistant secretary of anything 2) members of Congress and their advisory staff and 3) rant-wing talk show hosts." Works for me. 
7:18:05 PM
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Google
Walter Mossberg weighs in on Google's autolink figure in today's Wall Street Journal. He writes, "Still, the feature has disturbing consequences for Web site owners. In my tests, for instance, it added links to the addresses of movie theaters I had called up in a Yahoo page, and the links took me to Google Maps, not to Yahoo's own map page. When I looked up a book on eCampus, a book-selling site, AutoLink turned the ISBN numbers on the page into links to Amazon, which competes with eCampus to sell the books. When I looked up a used car for sale on AutoTrader, AutoLink turned the VIN numbers into links to Carfax, not to a competing auto-history-report seller, AutoCheck, used by AutoTrader. If the principle behind AutoLink were to take hold, there would be nothing to stop Microsoft from adding a feature to Internet Explorer that would replace the ads on a Google search-results page with ads sold by Microsoft's MSN service."
Thanks to Dave Winer for the link.
7:09:59 AM
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Denver November 2006 Election
Westword has a short interview with Mike Miles. Mr Miles answers questions about Pat Waak's narrow win over Chris Gates last weekend to become the state Democratic party chair.
7:04:47 AM
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2004 Presidential Transition
The Denver Post editorial staff sounds off on President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations [March 10, 2005, "Fox is pick for U.N. henhouse"]. They write, "In choosing Bolton, the administration ignored the misgivings of Sen. Richard Lugar, R- Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is said to have warned that Bolton couldn't be confirmed for deputy secretary of state. Bolton was effusively praised by his new boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 'He is a tough-minded diplomat, he has strong record of success, and he has a proven track record of effective multi- lateralism,' Rice said. 'Through history, some of best ambassadors have been those with the strongest voices, ambassadors like Jean Kirkpatrick and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.' But both of them knew when to raise their voices and when to speak softly, too."
6:55:30 AM
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 Colorado Quarter
Five finalist designs for Colorado's quarter have been chosen. Thanks to Colorado Luis for the link. It seems that he and I favor the same design.
Here's the coverage from the Rocky. Governor Owens gets to make the final decision in May.
6:36:54 AM
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