Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid - washingtonpost.com

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans…

Okie Campaigns: FM 3-0 FOR DUMMIES

The world is full of bad people. Mind you, not everyone is bad, but there are enough of them out there that we have to arm ourselves. Over the years, we’ve done a pretty good job of that. When the bad people scare us or hurt us, we have to whack them.

Right On The Right

Welcome to the 2007 Right on the Right Year in Review. The first topic I’m going to review is election 2008. I’m going to cover the issue chronologically, and of course interject some commentary. Here goes…

Byzantine Sacred Art Blog: Wikipedia, the Source of Disinformation

De Braeckeleer writes: “Conducting false flag operations and planting disinformation in the mainstream media have long belonged to the craft of the spies. …

Judge Halts Law Granting Same Sex Couples Marriage Rights

A federal judge in Portland, OR has ruled in favor of the Alliance Defense fund’s motion to issue an injunction pending review of the state’s invalidating signatures on petitions which would have brought the state’s domestic partnership law…

Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

Judicial Watch has just released its list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007. Not surprisingly, the “top tier” Presidential candidates on both sides of the isle made rank.

Oklahoma Opens Its Books - Spending Transparency Website Goes Live

OkieCampaigns: “Sen. Brogdon said the program was modeled on a new federal law by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn which will allow citizens to track the use of federal dollars.”

Mashable: 12 Things To Do Online Before The End Of 2007

• Back up your files
• Buy a new computer
• Consolidate your email accounts
• Start your Diet
• Donate to a charity
• Get your finances in order
• Get your legal affairs in order
• Home safety
• Prepare your New Year’s Resolutions
• Reconnect with an old friend
• Update your Social networking profiles
• Update your resume

Facebook Launches Community-Driven Project to Add Foreign Language Support

Facebook is turning to their own platform and community to help translate the site into other languages. The company has launched an app called “Translations,” that is a community effort to make the site available in your language of choice.

WalMart Introduces Search Engine Marketing

Specifically with the AdSense program, WalMart wants to help unsuspecting newbie wares sellers on the internet with their advertising program.

USA Wake Up.org - Main Page

You awake each day to the Muslim muezzin call to prayer from the neighborhood mosque - as millions of Europeans already do. Liberals espouse “diversity is our strength” as Islamic enforcers cruise the cities…

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

The list is ordered by program function rather than merit so you’ll get the most out of it by browsing down this page at leisure. The pathologically impatient can consult the index below.

Blocked! The Year in Online Censorship

First, the biggie: China. The biggie of biggies, if we’re to be brutally honest about it. However you look at it, the Great Firewall is a massive hindrance…

The Rosett Report: America vs the UN Mob

The result was the adoption of a record-busting $4.17 billion core budget for 2008-2009, passed by a vote of 142 to 1. And who was that lone dissenting member state?

Gore Sues Time Magazine…Demands Recount

Pat Sajak: Lawyers for former Vice President Al Gore have filed numerous lawsuits against Time magazine, alleging a series of voting irregularities they maintain deprived Gore of Time’s “Person of the Year” Award….

Poll: Bush, Hillary Clinton Most Admired

They’re the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.

The Sam Adams Alliance and The Sam Adams Foundation have developed a great “online resource that collects best practices and advice from citizen leaders across the country.” The toolkit includes videos on how to write an op-ed and pitch your blog. It contains tips for research and building networks, explains the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and describes an effective letter to the editor.

There are tips for blogging, recruiting help, planning a meeting, becoming an intern, and much more. You’ll need to become a member (the membership is free), to download the PDF file. Check it out, here.

SitRep Archive

Mashable’s 2008 Predictions:

Includes:

• NBC gets some sort of handle on their video strategy
• Google and their mobile plans
• Social Networking
• Women and technology
• Bloggers will be taken more seriously

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Groupthink :: View topic - Putin’08: Cooler than Obama, More Experienced than Hillary

Having been named ‘Person of the Year 2007′ by an American magazine that invariably supports progressive candidates, soon-to-be Russian ex-President, Vladimir Putin, is now listening to political consultants advising him to start a vigorous campaign…

Romney knows bupkis - Roger Simon - Politico.com

Mitt Romney, a highly disciplined campaigner, made a major departure from his stump speech at a huge Christmas party here for more than 1,000 people.

Stix Blog: Fred Thompson Facts

Fred Thompson has on multiple occasions pronounced “nuclear” correctly….Fred Thompson has blasted more people in the face with a shotgun than even Dick Cheney….(via IMAO)

Paul Jacob updates the case against the “Oklahoma 3″

OkieCampaigns: “Paul Jacob, citizen leader and Senior Advisor with the Sam Adams Foundation, discusses what’s happened since his criminal indictment in October 2007. OK Attorney General Drew Edmondson accuses Paul and two others of breaking a state law regarding petition signature gathering, but Paul and the others followed the law as it had been interpreted previously by the OK Supreme Court. Now Edmondson wants to imprison the OK 3 for up to 10 years….” (Current and background videos.)

Twittering Iowa

Patrick Ruffini: “Can the Internet do a better job at covering election night than the media? We are about to find out.

I would like to launch an experiment with Twitter on Iowa Caucus night. If you’re caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign up for Twitter, make sure you have the mobile feature turned on for the night, and send a Twitter a text message with your caucus location and the results in 140 characters or less. If possible, please send your message from inside the caucus location as the vote totals are being announced…”

Washington Times: China taps into U.S. spy operations

(h/t 1389) “China’s intelligence service gained access to a secret National Security Agency listening post in Hawaii through a Chinese-language translation service, according to U.S. intelligence officials…”

Yid with Lid: Religion and Politics in Israel and America

(h/t GrizzlyGroundwell)”The separation of church and state is a key component of the US Democracy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I live in a ’secular’ state. Freedom of religion means, the government tolerates the fact that I observe Judaism. And while there is no official religion here, Christianity is the de facto official religion of this country…”

NORAD TRACKS SANTA

Okie Campaigns has the details.

A little insight of the Shindig at Bali

Viscount Monckton had an inside look at the Bali Manbearpig shindig. He tried to talk to Groacle’s disciples of the New Church of Manbearpig, but did not get thru to them. They have drank the cool-aide and have been infected with the hunt for Manbearpig.

Gates of Vienna: Suffer the Little Children…

The first song is about two children who lose their mother when she becomes a suicide bomber.