HANDY TOOLBAR LETS YOU KEEP UP WITH POLITICS
Here's a pretty valuable little toolbar: Vote121, a browser toolbar that brings all the latest campaign news and opinion straight to your browser. Without interrupting your normal browsing routine, you can learn more about the presidential candidates, get an active countdown to the election and an up-to-the-minute display of the projected election results – and it’s all free! -- Vote121 Toolbar.
And, thanx to Paul Whitehurst who steered me to Political State Report. The site, which is hosted by Temple Stark, is dedicated to giving its readers thoughts and facts about politics and politicians in all 50 states, and DC.
From that site I found some nice Alabama sites:
VoteLaw,
my friend Ed Still's blog from Birmingham.
States Writes
a Progressive Peer Directory from The American Street.
Alabama Politics
"Political news and commentary from the Heart of Dixie."
Illruminations
another interesting site whose motto is "It's more complicated than that."
The World Around You
An informed perspective on local (Prattville/Montgomery), state (Alabama), regional (southeast), national (US), and world politics and events.
The Haze Filter
DESPERATELY SEEKING SOME CLARITY IN THIS MADHOUSE WE CALL OUR WORLD!

CAT STEVENS TO BE DEPORTED
"Reuter's is reporting that former pop singer Cat Stevens, a Muslim, will be deported to Britain because his activities could be 'linked to terrorism,' a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
In case you've forgotten, Stevens was the composer of, among many hits, Peace Train:
Now, I've been cryin' lately,
Thinkin' about the world as it is.
Why must we go on hating?
Why can't we live in bliss?

(REUTER'S)

"SMOKETOWN SIX" CHARGED FOR FLASHING PREZ
"Six Lancaster city men are headed to court next month, accused of dropping their pants this summer in protest during President George W. Bush's visit to Smoketown Elementary School. Each of the self-monikered 'Smoketown Six' has been charged with one count of disorderly conduct for stripping down to thong underwear minutes before the president's bus rolled by on its way to the school."
(POLITICAL STATE REPORT, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)