Germans, recently privy to news that Europe’s biggest telecommunications firm was illegally wiretapping phone calls, are recalling what life was like when East Germany’s secret police were still around:
Experts say sophisticated modern methods — involving digital data, computers and mobile phones — are a far cry from the days of the Stasi who used steaming [...]

Handy Google Gadgets let me put Super Tuesday election returns right on the sidebar (that ling on the right). They’re running a bit late, since Huckabee won West Virginia already. Apparently, there was some interesting stuff going on between ballots in WV. Still, stick around throughout the evening.
I’m hearing (here in D.C.) that the lines [...]

Jane at FDL informed us that Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama will be voting “no” for the cloture in the RESTORE Act (FISA reform bill) this afternoon. Tim over at OpenLeft commented on the expectations game for the two presidential candidates:
Look, it’s certainly great news they will be voting the right way [...]

The latest Des Moines Register poll indicates Bill Richardson is holding on to his third-place spot in Iowa at the moment, but Mike Lux over at Open Left thinks Biden is the man to watch:
Biden has more momentum than Richardson or Dodd going into the final month, and is picking up traction in some [...]

Don’t send flowers—send the NYPD:

For the latest on Sex on the City (aka Shag Fund) visit TPM Muckraker.

Richardson continues his Iowa onslaught with a new ad touting his education record in New Mexico, according to The Hill’s blog:
Richardson promises he will get rid of No Child Left Behind, create a minimum wage for teachers, make pre-k and kindergarten available to all children and create math and science academies throughout the United States.

The [...]

According to Shailagh Murray over at the Washington Post’s “The Trail” blog, Bill Richardson has been making the rounds in Iowa lately:
New Mexico Bill Richardson has barnstormed 95 of Iowa’s 99 counties, wooing rural Democrats with his pro-gun record and urban caucus goers with his aggressive Iraq withdrawal plan. He has fielded questions on every [...]

A lot of people have asked me about my thoughts on Bill Richardson lately. Since I spent more than three years reporting on the governor in New Mexico1, people in the Washington D.C. area want to get the “real” story on Big Bill.
Invariably, I tell them that Richardson is the ultimate politician: there’s no position [...]

I don’t even know what to say about Gov. Bill Richardson anymore:
As I listened, I wondered why he has not been taken more seriously as a candidate–a smart, accomplished governor of Latino heritage. Then I found out.
At the end of his speech–after noting all the ways he would defend the Constitution and redress global warming–he [...]

Gov. Bill Richardson has an op-ed in the WaPo this morning, and, in it, he reinforces his recent attacks on other Democratic candidates who won’t call for a complete withdrawal form Iraq:
Our troops have done everything they were asked to do with courage and professionalism, but they cannot win someone else’s civil war. So long [...]

Well, once again, Mario Burgos and I agree on something:
It hasn’t yet been made public, but I believe that Governor Bill Richardson may be working on setting a new record for the Guinness Book of World Records. Richardson has already been widely recognized for his record breaking handshaking. Now, he diligently working on setting the [...]

Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction:
God’s will is for Iowa to have the first-in-the-nation caucus, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson told a crowd here Monday.
“Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary,” Richardson, New Mexico’s governor, said at the Northwest Iowa Labor [...]