From NPR:
Sen. Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney are distant cousins. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have dozens of shared relatives. Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian at ancestry.com, talks to Alex Cohen about tracing back the family tree.
Looks like Walt Disney is also George Bush’s 13th cousin, once removed… interesting.
Better get back to work on my family tree.
That huge fence along the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal imports immigrants is facing some scrutiny in Congress again.
Carlos Mencia says the US will need to use illegal immigrants just to get the fence built, but now lawmakers are concerned that the fence will be built with imported steel as well.
Something that makes the Chinese very happy and patriotic Americans not so much.
From NPR
Sen. Sam Brownback may pull out of the presidential race today, sighting a lack of funds as reason why.
Here’s to hoping he endorses Mike Huckabee or someone else he really believes in, rather than just simply endorsing a top tier candidate because they’re “top tier.” I’d even be happy if he endorsed Ron Paul, as long as he did it for the right reasons.
Whatcha gonna do brother when Huck-a-Mania runs wild over you?!
You’ve gotta see this blog post….
THE ONLY POLLSTER that really matters is Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports. In addition to his unrivaled track record, Rasmussen is also the only pollster who is currently screening for likely voters. So when Rasmussen says something, we ought to pay attention.
Yesterday, Rasmussen released a poll of the Iowa Republican Caucus. Given its surprising results, I’m surprised it hasn’t received more attention. Romney’s winning with 25 percent; no big shakes there. Fred’s in second at 19 percent; again, nothing earth shattering. But here comes the bombshell: Mike Huckabee checks in at 18 percent, a stunningly strong third place showing and within shouting distance of the frontrunners….
Huckabee is the most natural campaigner in the bunch. Unlike one member of the top tier, there’s no danger that he’ll doze off in mid-sentence. Unlike other members of the top-tier, Huckabee’s a social conservative’s dream. You want someone rock-ribbed on the social issues? Huckabee’s your guy. He doesn’t even believe in evolution. His taxing and spending in Arkansas may not be every conservative’s ideal, but Huckabee probably has fewer policy skeletons in his closet than anyone else in the field.
Oh and Gov. McDreamy announced his endorsement for Rudy this week. Looks like typical politics in action.
From the Barack Obama campaign:
I’m leaving the Tonight Show studio and I wanted to share something.
Jay Leno just asked if it bothers me that some of the Washington pundits are declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of this election before a single vote has been cast.
I’ll tell you what I told him: Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare “Mission Accomplished” a little too soon.
We started this week $2.1 million behind the Clinton campaign — a lead they built in large part with contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.
We don’t accept money from federal lobbyists or PACs. But we’ve already cut that advantage in half with small donations from people like you.