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Have I ever mentioned that sometimes I love Bob Hartwig? Insurance Journal has an article mentioning that the state’s latest salvo on modern personal auto insurance underwriting and ratemaking is stuck for now, with the state Senate having adjourned for the year, without taking up an auto insurance reform measure which, among other things, would ban [...] 
By now you’ve probably heard of alleged Al Qaeda member’s attempt to cause mayhem on an Amsterdam-Detroit flight on Christmas Day. If you haven’t, the story is available from your favorite media site. For example, the New York Times writes: A Nigerian man tried to ignite an explosive device aboard a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight as [...]
Submitted without much further comment, from a Detroit News article on Michigan Governor Granholm’s State of the State address: The governor also said she would call for auto insurers to voluntarily freeze rates for the next year. That would give the Legislature time to consider a package of reforms to be unveiled today by Butch Hollowell, [...] 
Seen in the New York Times: Democratic Party lawyers have determined that no more than half the delegates from Florida and Michigan can be seated at the party’s August convention, dealing a blow to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s efforts to seat the full delegations from those states.[...] In asking that the full delegations from these states [...] 
In the wake of the vigor the Clinton political machine has been putting into Hillary’s campaign since Indiana, I’ve been wondering “why”? I’ve seen various pundits talking about different scenarios in which Hillary could stage a come-from-behind coup…but I haven’t yet seen a nice, clean description of how it might occur. So, borrowing data from RealClearPolitics, [...]
There has been quite a bit of discussion on many blogs and other media about what to do with the Florida and Michigan delegate mess. Although I still think that a policy of “the rules are the rules; to change them retroactively would be unfair” is the best policy, it seems increasingly unlikely that political pressures [...]
TalkLeft relayed an interesting portion of a CNN interview with Karl Rove, regarding how to solve the MI/FL delegate mess: I actually think Senator Obama has the capacity to resolve this situation in a way that gives him a big advantage, but it would have to be a gutsy call. And that is, at some point, probably [...]
Judging by this story in the Courant, the threat of failing to determine a nominee until Denver is causing some rational thought to occur: So that the votes would count, officials in the two states are saying they would consider holding a sort of do-over contest by June. That’s a change from their previous insistence that [...]
This time the talk is coming from the Wall Street Journal: Because they voted earlier than they were supposed to, the two states have been denied a say at the Denver convention. But leaders of the state parties—backed by Hillary Clinton, who did well in the nonbinding votes—are agitating for a voice. That’s putting pressure on the [...]
Now, here is an elegant way out of the standoff on the Democrats’ boycott (and Hillary’s quasi-boycott) of Michigan and Florida due to their unauthorized early primaries. From the Caucus: Democrats in Florida and Michigan are increasingly concerned that their primaries, held in January, will not factor into the nomination fight between Senators Hillary Rodham [...] |
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