Why We Need the Second Amendment
New Orleans mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin and crony checking out and enjoying their new arms shipment, like Third World dictators:
New Orleans mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin and crony checking out and enjoying their new arms shipment, like Third World dictators:
February 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Here you have it: incontrovertible proof that Nagin assaulted a police officer. Send out the bobbies to round ‘im up. And with a deadly weapon, no less!
That’s gotta be good for several years’ reprieve from having to hear from or about that guy, hasn’t it?
February 19th, 2008 at 9:24 am
This has nothing to do with this post, but I am looking for a website that will show the voting records of candidates, as well as where each of them stands on particular issues. Any idea where I could find that?
February 21st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Lindsay,
I don’t know of, and would suspect the neutrality of, any single place that claimed to report the candidates’ stands.
That said, there are several places you can go for individual issues or areas of interest.
Americans for Better Immigration grades each major party candidate on immigration-related issues. The Club for Growth ranks candidates on their pro-limited government stance, as applicable (but has a very statist, government interventionist take on free trade, so you have to season your review of their grades with knowledge of their wrong-headed bias; they’re also very open-borders — and call it free trade).
The Senate (look for the “Roll Call Tables” section with links, bottom right) and House (ditto) record and publish (most) votes, so you can research the bills debated and voted on (aside from voice votes) to see whether a candidate’s actions match his rhetoric.
For negative assessments (meaning if they like ‘em, they’re probab;y no good) can be found through groups like NARAL.
Finally, Tom and I have, I feel, striven to discuss honestly all the candidates and issues; while we both obviously have very strong opinions, I think we’ve backed them up with evidence, and I don’t think Tom would mind me encouraging you to follow all links provided on his or my blog.
If you’re talking state and local candidates, the best bet is the state branches of the individual parties, or just google the candidate’s names, then disregard just about any hit that returns a link to the candidates’ campaign website. The Texas Secretary of State’s website has some good info, too; at least, they list the candidates and you can conduct your own research from that starting point. Beyond that , the “third parties” have info on their candidates — also good as a jumping-off point, but I’d caution against buying into the parties’ assessments of their own candidates: Libertarians, Constitution Party, Greens (there are many others, but I can’t remember all of them).
I’m afraid there’s not really any one stop shop. Not one that’s reliable and trustworthy, anyway. The only servicable answer for looking up candidates’ positions and records is to let your fingers do the walking.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Brian,
Actually, what you just gave me is exactly what I was looking for. The problem I’m having is what you described: you can’t rely on any one source because the information they give always come across with their own bias. Thanks for the info!
Lindsay