No shock, really: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has announced that he has raised over $5 million in third-quarter fundraising, historically the sluggish quarter. The number puts him in serious money territory, especially given the condition of the Republicans over-all. 

Appropriately for this ridiculous horse-race treatment of an ‘election’ without votes happening a year too early, the gambling realm has assigned Paul a better bettor’s chance of winning the nomination than McCain.

McCain is the good choice for those Republicans determined to support the Iraq war to the bitter end, and a much more respectable choice for war supporters than ...   more »

The more things change, the more they stay the same for demented admin policy makers who want to gin up another war, or rather to engulf the entire Middle East and the world's billion Muslims in the "global war" of their bigoted, bloodthirsty and cowardly imagining.  This was posted more than a year ago and is regrettably current today:

Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, the only major Iranian figure who advocated reaching out to America, made indirect overtures to the Bush administration in the period leading up to the June 2005 Iranian election but was rebuffed, according to American businessman Barry O’Connell, ...   more »