Voting started a minute ago.

CNN.com has up-to-the-minute coverage here.

AP has a neat Basic Facts About the Iowa Caucuses guide thinger.

I think Hillary is gonna finish first, then Edwards and then Obama. What are your predictions?

Early ENTRANCE polls are showing Clinton, Obama leading Dems, Huckabee, Romney for GOP.

AmericaBlog has live- ( Read more... )

WaPo says Democrats are leading in early results.
Democrats jumped into an early lead in some key state Senate returns in Virginia this evening with only scattered precincts reporting, raising hopes for the party that Tuesday's election will hand them control of the chamber for the first time in a decade ( Read more... )

Democratic hopefuls sure to target Hillary:
PHILADELPHIA - For the second presidential debate in a row, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton can expect to be everyone’s punching bag. This time she will be on the stage to defend herself ( Read more... )

Couple links what caught my eye recently:

++ Wow, Rush Limbaugh is fucking scary.

++ John Edwards got the endorsement of the powerful SEIU labor union in 10 states, including Iowa. The SEIU is a very powerful union that I have a lot of respect for; I'm not sure what I think of their endorsement.

++ Racist asshat Don Imus is coming back to ( Read more... )

The Senate has passed a resolution Jim Webb calls "Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream" [YouTube link] because although it doesn't, it could be read as authorizing military action against Iran. I think he really meant "Dick Cheney's fondest wet dream," but didn't say it because he'd get in trouble. Also because it would give us all horrifying mental ( Read more... )

... from our new environmentalist overlord Al Gore: Moving Beyond Kyoto.

Just in the last few months, new studies have shown that the north polar ice cap - which helps the planet cool itself - is melting nearly three times faster than the most pessimistic computer models predicted. Unless we take action, summer ice could be completely gone in as ( Read more... )

In last week's Open Thread, leeann_marie pointed us at a story where a California D.A. declined to press charges in a gang-rape where there were three eyewitnesses. The rapists were college athletes, unsurprisingly: they were on the men's baseball team. So were the eyewitnesses, but they were women on the soccer team, who pushed their way into a room at a ( Read more... )

I. Lewis Libby has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, a $250,000 fine, and 400 hours community service, for obstructing justice and other counts in the Valerie Plame leak case. He must submit a DNA sample ( Read more... )

Open Thread

Hey, LiberalRagers! Use this open thread to post links and discuss news. (Thanks to txvoodoo for the suggestion.)

If you wanna talk about the SOTU address, feel free to chat here.

HuffPo has the full text of the speech here, along with many other online outlets.

Oooh, they just said "Madam Speaker" for the first time at a SOTU address. *gets a little tingle*