A misleading women's group?

Here's a disturbing story I found in a TalkingPointsMemo link. There's an organization you may have heard of called Women's Voices Women Vote which purports to have as a goal encouraging single women to vote. Sounds like a worthy goal, doesn't it? But check out this story from Facing South about their tactics in North Carolina and numerous other states. They seem to have a penchant for making robo calls and mailings encouraging registration after the deadline is past and in some cases violating election laws. Read the whole thing...and if you've supported them, maybe it's a good time to ask some questions.

The Wave

"The wave" is what Dibgy of Hullabaloo calls the race toward the Democratic party in a Pew study that's a sight for sore eyes. It's more detailed than I have time to read at the moment, but it's enough to look at the charts. Scroll down to "age and party affiliation" and feast your eyes on this: under all voters by income level, 46% Democratic, 46% Republican for incomes over $100,000! Even upscale voters can see what Bush and co. have done to the country. And the chart on young voters is amazing. Karl Rove's permanent republican majority, meet the reality based world!

Would McCain fix FEMA or make it worse?

In his trip to New Orleans, John McCain talked about fixing FEMA...and endorsed the Bush model. Yikes! Look at this TPM post for the ugly details.

McCain See, McCain Do

Check out this ad that Progressive Media USA is running in the D.C. area!

In a Nutshell

From Tom Burka, here's an historian's wonderful summary of the Bush presidency (scroll down to below the graph showing 98% of historians agreeing that he's been terrible).

Health Care Issues

Maggie Mahar has an interesting post at TPM on the politics of health care reform, part 1 of a series. In this one she addresses the question "Why don't we have universal coverage when so many other countries do?" and provides some interesting background. I'll provide links to the remaining part(s) when available.

Summer in Baghdad

Just as the forsythia is blooming here, the temperature is really ramping up in Iraq. If you would like to actually support the troops instead of saying you do with a bumper magnet, here's a thorough DailyKos diary that explains how to send packages that help our service members make it through the long hot summer ahead.