On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town. - NY Times

Coverage on Salon

Via BoingBoing

Olbermann on the last minute McCain endorsement of rapture lusting, Texas mega-church pastor, John Hagee, right before the Texas primary. Hagee is ridiculously over-the-top in his hatred of everyone not in his small sliver of christianity. McCain is so far still embracing his new pal. The Catholics are getting pissed.

McCain “Proud” of Endorsement From John Hagee Who Calls Catholics “The Great Whore.” Where’s Tim Russert Now?

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McCain’s Incendiary Supporter

The squabble surrounding San Antonio televangelist John Hagee’s endorsement of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain reminds me of why there should be less religion in politics — incendiary faith is the opposite of consensus building.
McCain has said that he is proud to be associated with Hagee. This must be in part because McCain’s strategists think he needs to burnish his evangelical credentials and Hagee’s vote, along with his 19,000-member strong congregation, is just the solution.

Thing is, this country is big. Real big. And you need to bring together a lot of people to vote for you if you want to be president. That may be a little harder for McCain to accomplish thanks to his association with Hagee, who in recent years has offended many, including but not limited to Catholics, homosexuals, Muslims and Harry Potter-author J.K. Rowling. He has suggested that Hurricane Katrina was God’s wrath for the city’s “gay parade” and he has called the Roman Catholic Church a “false cult system.”

Hagee gives an illustrated lecture.

(CBS) Is Don Siegelman in prison because he’s a criminal or because he belonged to the wrong political party in Alabama? Siegelman is the former governor of Alabama, and he was the most successful Democrat in that Republican state. But while he was governor, the U.S. Justice Department launched multiple investigations that went on year after year until, finally, a jury convicted Siegelman of bribery.

Now, many Democrats and Republicans have become suspicious of the Justice Department’s motivations. As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, 52 former state attorneys-general have asked Congress to investigate whether the prosecution of Siegelman was pursued not because of a crime but because of politics.
Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal?

Republican candidates debate — Thursday, Jan. 10 at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Team Sandtastic from Sarasota, Florida is making giant sand heads.

Mitt Romney

Working on Ron Paul. I’ve seen a lot of lawn signs for Ron Paul down here.

Republican Candidates ‘Immortalized’ on Mount Myrtle

Republican Culture of Corruption: 2007 So Far

This is from December 13, 2004 in Congressman Conyer’s forum in Columbus, Ohio on the 2004 election.
Shocking election-theft testimony (Watch the Video)
Computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis testifies under oath before the U.S. House Judiciary Members in Ohio. Full transcript here

Are there computer programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?

Yes.

How do you know that to be the case?

Because in October of 2000, I wrote a prototype for Congressman Tom Feeney [R-FL]…

It would rig an election?

It would flip the vote, 51-49. Whoever you wanted it to go to and whichever race you wanted to win.

And would that program that you designed, be something that elections officials… could detect?

They’d never see it.

More video from the forum here