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If Gov. Sarah Palin decides to run for reelection, she may have an eager Democratic challenger in Ethan Berkowitz. Berkowitz served five terms in the state House — including seven years as the minority leader — before running for lieutenant governor in 2006 on a ticket with former Gov. Tony Knowles. The duo were beat by team Palin but only by a 7.3% margin. Berkowitz ran an even closer battle last year, losing out on a U.S. House seat to Don Young by a mere 16, 379 votes.

Poor Gordon: When Gordon Brown visited the White House, he presented Obama with a pen holder carved from an anti-slavery ship. Obama gave Brown a set of DVDs. DVDs that won’t work on players outside North America.

Gov. Sarah Palin has now joined Govs. Mark Sanford (S.C.) and Rick Perry (TX) in rejecting a large portion of the stimulus package being offered to her state. The punchlines (and headlines) will write themselves on this one since much of the money Palin is refusing was marked for education:

It really is no surprise that John McCain and Joe Lieberman like each other so much. They’re cut from the same cloth of standing on whichever side of an issue seems most advantageous at the moment. McCain was asked whether he would support his former running mate Sarah Palin if she ran for president in [...]

The election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the appointments following have left some Senate seats open. And there are still Senate races left to be decided. Politics- it’s fluid. 
A brief rundown on the seat shifting: 
Hillary Clinton’s Seat
Former President Bill Clinton doesn’t want the spot . Governor David Paterson has taken himself out of [...]

This, dear readers, is the 500th post at Moue since we switched over from the old site. Yay us!
Well, okay, actually more like yay Brandy, since she does about 4/5 of the posting ’round here… Actually, come to think of it I really don’t do much around here at all, except for oiling the Victrola [...]

George Lakoff wrote in Don’t Think of an Elephant  that the Republican Party has (traditionally) been better at appearing cohesive from the outside despite existing inner turmoil. Republican groups with different agendas would work together with the understanding that the needs of all would eventually be met if groups waited their turn. This election cycle knocked down [...]

Former Republican Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has a last name that sounds like a dish served at a sketchy truck stop in the Appalachians- which is enough on its own to earn a small bit of affection from me. But his new found habit of bluntly stating what the American people have known for [...]

The McCain/Palin ticket could use some couples therapy:
John McCain’s campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.
In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”
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Also, a “top [...]

Halloween’s on a Friday this year, meaning there are even more opportunities to get drunk off of Pumpkin Spice Martinis and hit on people when you don’t even know what they look like.  Luckily, MSN has put together guides to Guys and Gals costumes so you’ll know how to best approach someone.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t [...]