The trial balloon launched yesterday by Kennedy friends Chris Dodd and Orrin Hatch isn’t going anywhere. A solid source assures me that Vicki Kennedy won’t run in a special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat. She’s not interested in an interim appointment if it becomes available. Original post: Vicki Kennedy Not Interested In Senate Seat: Stephanopoulos

It's the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week's highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No tea bags left? Neil at Texas Liberal offered the fullest extension of the back of his hand to opponent's of Houston's Ashby High Rise. TXsharon wonders what Governor Perry is thinking to appoint

Written by Staff Writers | Canberra Times It’s quite likely that after the next federal elections the Senate will have representatives of a new minor party, the Australian Sex Party, but with every likelihood that the impact on government policy won’t be minor. Minor parties have been characteristic of Australian politics for more than 50 years, ever since Bob Santamaria’s endeavors to take control of the ALP were thwarted by the ALP leader, Doc Evatt. The split resulted in the Democr

Earlier this month, Tom Ridge appeared to claim that he was pressured during his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security to raise the Terror Alert Level for political reasons. Now, he seems to be backtracking on that claim: WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, speaking for the first time about accusations made in his new book, says he did not mean to suggest that other top Bush administration officials were playing politics with the nation’s security before the 2004

First their was Ezekiel Emanuel Emanuel has written in medical journals of how health care should be rationed, with priority given to younger people over seniors and over those suffering from dementia, according to John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Ezekiel also believes that very young children should be lower on the priority list than younger people who have received public educations. Next there is the ’salubrious’ John Holdren Giving “nat